Funeral etiquette quiz

Like any other occasion, you must also watch your manners during a funeral. How much do you know about proper funeral etiquette? Don’t laugh about this quiz because it may help you in the future.

  1.  1

    In Celtic traditions, what is the term for the breach in time when contact between the living and the dead was especially possible

    • Samhain
    • Valhalla
    • Valkyries
    • Druids
  2.  2

    Which tribe had funeral ceremonies lasting up to several years, utilized the rainy season and had four distinct, successive phases?

    • LoDagaa
    • Navajo
    • Hopi
    • Iksa
  3.  3

    What is the main difference in the view of death by the Cocopa as compared with the Hopi tribe?

    • The Cocopa tend to embrace death whereas the Hopi tend to want it quickly forgotten.
    • The Hopi tend to enjoy their ancestors and the Cocopa deny their ancestors.
    • The Cocopa tend to promote negative thoughts about the deceased and the Hopi shunned negative thoughts about the deceased.
    • The Hopi tend to embrace death whereas the Cocopa tend to want it quickly forgotten.
  4.  4

    The Lakota battle cry "It's a good day to die," signified which of the following?

    • That Native Americans saw death as a natural event
    • That all hope for the Lakota tribe to win the battle was lost
    • That Native Americans had won their battle
    • That the Lakota tribe viewed death as an unexpected event
  5.  5

    The Dance of Death involved which of the following?

    • corpses and cadavers
    • butterflies and dragonflies
    • flags and banners
    • elaborate poems
  6.  6

    What does the theme dance macabre mean?

    • Dance of Death
    • Dance of Happiness
    • Artistic Death
    • Black Death
  7.  7

    In the twelfth century, finding a grave that is marked "Here Lies Samuel Smith" is an example of what?

    • individualism
    • memorialization
    • revolution
    • heroism
  8.  8

    What is a charnel house?

    • a structure containing the bones and skulls of Christians
    • a hospice founded in the nineteenth century
    • a type of mortuary
    • a brothel
  9.  9

    What phrase best defines how death became the mirror in which a dying person could discover his or her destiny by taking a moral balance sheet of his or her life?

    • speculum mortis
    • secular plan
    • memento mori
    • muerto nuevo
  10. 10

    During the Middle Ages, which was a customary practice surrounding a person's dying?

    • A dying person turning away from the earthly realm and toward the divine
    • Lying down with the deceased's head facing East toward Jerusalem
    • Family and friends being present
    • All of the above
  11. 11

    In 1861, Queen Victoria set the trend for elaborate funeral etiquette when Prince Albert passed away. What ideal did she represent?

    • beautiful death
    • morbid confusion
    • romantic death
    • everlasting love
  12. 12

    What public tradition signified that someone had passed away?

    • ringing of the bell
    • monthly church services
    • Parade of Souls
    • town crier
  13. 13

    Referring to a deceased individual as "that one" is an example of what?

    • name avoidance
    • ignorance
    • individual attention
    • necromancy
  14. 14

    In traditional societies, a shaman's duty is to

    • act as an intermediate between the living and the dead
    • publicly profess their love for the deceased
    • write poetic songs about the deceased
    • lead the family in mourning
  15. 15

    What focus do traditional societies tend to have with regards to the deceased?

    • deep respect for the soul
    • reincarnation beliefs
    • insurmountable feelings of loss
    • anger
  16. 16

    What type of orientation do traditional societies typically embrace when seeking the cause of death?

    • ecological
    • biological
    • accidental
    • individual
  17. 17

    In the epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh went on a journey to find what?

    • The secret to immortality
    • A proper burial site
    • His friend Enkidu
    • Youth
  18. 18

    Fijian mythology usually has death centered upon __________ when humans are decreed to suffer death.

    • human transgression
    • soulful inadequacy
    • sexual desires
    • spiritual loss
  19. 19

    What did the Neanderthal corpse stained with red ochre and placed in the fetal position suggest in burial?

    • revitalization and rebirth
    • transition and growth
    • humanistic approach
    • artistic interpretation
  20. 20

    Which of the following is not an item that Neanderthals were buried with to assist them with the passage from the land of the living to the land of the dead?

    • blankets
    • stone implements
    • ornamental shells
    • food

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