Unit 7

Question 1

What car appears 1st in a cortege

Answer 1

clergy

Question 2

What car appears 2nd in a cortege

Answer 2

flower car

Question 3

What car appears 3rd in a cortege

Answer 3

honorary pallbearer

Question 4

What car appears 4th in a cortege

Answer 4

active pallbearer

Question 5

What car appears 5th in a cortege

Answer 5

hearse

Question 6

What car appears 6th in a cortege

Answer 6

family

Question 7

What car appears 7th in a cortege

Answer 7

friends

Question 8

Who was credited with the idea of a horse drawn carriage to carry casket remains?

Answer 8

James Cunniham

Question 9

Whose funeral was seen as the turning point in the acceptance of embalming in America?

Answer 9

Abraham Lincoln

Question 10

The most elaborate and outstanding funeral car of the 19th century was the

Answer 10

Crane & Breed professional hearse

Question 11

What chemicals were used in the embalming processes of the 19th century?

Answer 11

arsenic, zinc chloride, alcohol

Question 12

Known as the ‘father of embalming’

Answer 12

Thomas Holmes

Question 13

The large box-like vehicle to carry the casket, mourners, and flowers was called

Answer 13

Hulberg Funeral Bus

Question 14

What was a corpse cooler

Answer 14

A chest filled with ice placed over the torso of the body

Question 15

What color were children’s hearses

Answer 15

white

Question 16

What did airtight receptacles do

Answer 16

Made to preserve the body to keep from decaying

Question 17

J. Anthony Gaussardia

Answer 17

patented a process of embalming involving the injection of an arsenic-alcohol mixture.

Question 18

Where did the word Hearse comes from

Answer 18

french word ‘Herse’ which was from the latin word ‘hirpex’ meaning rake or harrow

Question 19

Hudson Samson

Answer 19

Invented and oval shaped hearse with 8 posts for decoration in 1889

Question 20

When did funeral cars become more functional and decorative?

Answer 20

afer WWI

Question 21

What color became very popular for Hearses?

Answer 21

GRAY

Question 22

in the 19th century, if a funeral car did not have plumes on them:

Answer 22

poor person

Question 23

in the 19th century, if a funeral car had 2 plumes on them:

Answer 23

normal income

Question 24

in the 19th century, if a funeral car had 3/4 plumes on them:

Answer 24

middle income

Question 25

in the 19th century, if a funeral car had 5/6 plumes on them:

Answer 25

well off

Question 26

in the 19th century, if a funeral car had 8 plumes on them:

Answer 26

rich