KENTUCKY LAWS- EMBALMER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR
PRACTICE EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
● Apprentice. Answer: A person engaged in learning the practice of embalming or funeral
directing who is under the instruction and personal supervision of a Kentucky-licensed
embalmer of a Kentucky-licensed funeral director.
● Board. Answer: Means the Kentucky Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors.
● Direct Burial. Answer: The pick-up, transport, and interment of a dead human body or
body parts without funeral.
● Embalmer. Answer: A person who preserves, restores, and disinfects dead human bodies
by the application of chemical substances either externally of internally, or both.
● Embalming Service Establishment. Answer: A place of business where dead human
bodies are embalmed or otherwise prepared or held for burial, including the transportation of
the bodies. An embalming service establishment shall not arrange or conduct a funeral of
direct burial. An embalming service establishment may arrange for and transport dead human
bodies for direct cremation purposes only under the following circumstances.
● Funeral. Answer: The ceremonies or services related to the final disposition and interment
of a human body or body parts.
● Full-service establishment. Answer: A place of business where dead human bodies may
be embalmed or otherwise prepared and held for burial and where funeral services may be
arranged, provided, and conducted.
● Funeral Director. Answer: A person who, for profit, engages in or represents himself or
herself as engaged in the supervision, direction, and arrangement of funeral services,
transportation, burials, and disposals of dead human bodies.
● Funeral Establishment or Establishment means. Answer: A) A full-service funeral
establishment
● Memorial Service. Answer: A ceremony or service held in honor of a deceased human
being at which there is no human remains present, and for which no license is required.
PRACTICE EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
● Apprentice. Answer: A person engaged in learning the practice of embalming or funeral
directing who is under the instruction and personal supervision of a Kentucky-licensed
embalmer of a Kentucky-licensed funeral director.
● Board. Answer: Means the Kentucky Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors.
● Direct Burial. Answer: The pick-up, transport, and interment of a dead human body or
body parts without funeral.
● Embalmer. Answer: A person who preserves, restores, and disinfects dead human bodies
by the application of chemical substances either externally of internally, or both.
● Embalming Service Establishment. Answer: A place of business where dead human
bodies are embalmed or otherwise prepared or held for burial, including the transportation of
the bodies. An embalming service establishment shall not arrange or conduct a funeral of
direct burial. An embalming service establishment may arrange for and transport dead human
bodies for direct cremation purposes only under the following circumstances.
● Funeral. Answer: The ceremonies or services related to the final disposition and interment
of a human body or body parts.
● Full-service establishment. Answer: A place of business where dead human bodies may
be embalmed or otherwise prepared and held for burial and where funeral services may be
arranged, provided, and conducted.
● Funeral Director. Answer: A person who, for profit, engages in or represents himself or
herself as engaged in the supervision, direction, and arrangement of funeral services,
transportation, burials, and disposals of dead human bodies.
● Funeral Establishment or Establishment means. Answer: A) A full-service funeral
establishment
● Memorial Service. Answer: A ceremony or service held in honor of a deceased human
being at which there is no human remains present, and for which no license is required.
