TN State Law Exam- Funeral Directing
Revision Questions With Complete
Solutions.
This is the person who is legally entitled to authorize cremation, funeral service, and dispositions: -
Answer authorizing agent
Can a licensed funeral director authorize a cremation? - Answer NO
This is the heating process where a body is reduced to bone fragments by combustion or evaporation? -
Answer cremation
This is the building that houses one or more cremation chambers this also includes the term
"crematorium": - Answer crematory
This is the preservation, disinfection, restoration, or attempted preservation by chemicals externally or
internally applied? - Answer embalming
This is the directing/supervising or preparing the dead for disposition other than embalming? - Answer
funeral directing
This is the making of funeral arrangements, providing funeral services, selling merchandise, making
financial arrangements, and rendering services? - Answer funeral directing
This is providing a place for the preparation of the dead? - Answer funeral directing
This is the use of the terms funeral director, undertaker, mortician, funeral parlor, or funeral chapel? -
Answer funeral directing
Is it against the law to hold oneself out as a funeral director? - Answer yes
, What is exempted from the definition of funeral directing? - Answer The sale, maintenance,
beautification of graves, the installation of markers, opening/closing of graves, of crypts, providing
equipment for final interment/entombment of casketed remains/cremains. The sale and maintenance of
crypts and above ground mausoleum crypts
What is a funeral establishment? - Answer It is a business, proprietorship, partnership, firm,
establishment, association, corporation engaged in arranging, directing, supervising funerals for profit.
Preparation for burial, disposition of the dead, and provide a place for preparation or care of the dead
What is the license? - Answer funeral director or embalmer issued by the state board
What is a trainee/apprentice? - Answer person who is learning to practice funeral directing/embalming
under the personal supervision and instruction of a licensed funeral director in Tennessee
What are the 2 major state associations? - Answer Tennessee Funeral Directors Association and the
Tennessee Funeral Directors & Morticians Association
What about religious exemptions for the funeral law? - Answer No one can interfere with a group or
committee or denomination in the preparation of their dead if and when the group or committee does
not make a charge
Who prosecutes funeral law violations? - Answer duty of the district attorney general
What is required to be on all funeral merchandise? - Answer In a conspicuous place a description of the
casket, gauge, and materials
What is the penalty for having no description on a casket? - Answer Not less than $100 or more than
$500 or imprisoned for not less than 10 days or not more than 90 days
Can a business injunction be brought against a funeral home for violations of the casket description law?
- Answer yes
Revision Questions With Complete
Solutions.
This is the person who is legally entitled to authorize cremation, funeral service, and dispositions: -
Answer authorizing agent
Can a licensed funeral director authorize a cremation? - Answer NO
This is the heating process where a body is reduced to bone fragments by combustion or evaporation? -
Answer cremation
This is the building that houses one or more cremation chambers this also includes the term
"crematorium": - Answer crematory
This is the preservation, disinfection, restoration, or attempted preservation by chemicals externally or
internally applied? - Answer embalming
This is the directing/supervising or preparing the dead for disposition other than embalming? - Answer
funeral directing
This is the making of funeral arrangements, providing funeral services, selling merchandise, making
financial arrangements, and rendering services? - Answer funeral directing
This is providing a place for the preparation of the dead? - Answer funeral directing
This is the use of the terms funeral director, undertaker, mortician, funeral parlor, or funeral chapel? -
Answer funeral directing
Is it against the law to hold oneself out as a funeral director? - Answer yes
, What is exempted from the definition of funeral directing? - Answer The sale, maintenance,
beautification of graves, the installation of markers, opening/closing of graves, of crypts, providing
equipment for final interment/entombment of casketed remains/cremains. The sale and maintenance of
crypts and above ground mausoleum crypts
What is a funeral establishment? - Answer It is a business, proprietorship, partnership, firm,
establishment, association, corporation engaged in arranging, directing, supervising funerals for profit.
Preparation for burial, disposition of the dead, and provide a place for preparation or care of the dead
What is the license? - Answer funeral director or embalmer issued by the state board
What is a trainee/apprentice? - Answer person who is learning to practice funeral directing/embalming
under the personal supervision and instruction of a licensed funeral director in Tennessee
What are the 2 major state associations? - Answer Tennessee Funeral Directors Association and the
Tennessee Funeral Directors & Morticians Association
What about religious exemptions for the funeral law? - Answer No one can interfere with a group or
committee or denomination in the preparation of their dead if and when the group or committee does
not make a charge
Who prosecutes funeral law violations? - Answer duty of the district attorney general
What is required to be on all funeral merchandise? - Answer In a conspicuous place a description of the
casket, gauge, and materials
What is the penalty for having no description on a casket? - Answer Not less than $100 or more than
$500 or imprisoned for not less than 10 days or not more than 90 days
Can a business injunction be brought against a funeral home for violations of the casket description law?
- Answer yes
