National Board Review: Mortuary Law Practice Test 1&2

Which of the following is a good ethical behavior in regard to treatment of the deceased: - Answer- cleanliness in the prep room It may be prejudicial to public morals, dangerous to life, or injurious to public rights: - Answer- nuisance per se Which of the following acts was enacted to protect groups from substandard wages and excessive working hours: - Answer- Fair Labor Standards Act Which of the following is not included on the MSDS: - Answer- expiration date Which of the following is not a final disposition: - Answer- cremation Which of the following has the paramount right to arrange for disposition: - Answer- spouse Maintaining discreet relationships would fulfill what ethical practice: - Answer- confidentiality responsibilty In maintaining a high standard of conduct with a competitor, the funeral director would be wise to: - Answer- respect the bereaved family's choice of a funeral home The registration of data pertaining to births, deaths, etc.: - Answer- vital statistics The condition of an estate of a deceased person which is unable to pay the debts of the decedent and/or the estate is referred to as being: - Answer- insolvent estate When a funeral director makes funeral arrangements with a family, he should: - Answer- be factual and knowledgeable An instrument executed with required formality by a person making disposition of his property to take effect upon his death: - Answer- will Which of the following is an ethical consideration in regard to the care of the deceased body: - Answer- entrusted care by the family Referring to blood relationship: - Answer- kin The filing and proving of the will following death is called: - Answer- probate A will written entirely by hand: - Answer- holographic will A crime involving a willful wrongdoing, usually felony: - Answer- moral turpitude An oral will dictated by an ill testator which is later written out: - Answer- nuncupative One who inherits, or is entitled to receive, property by the laws of intestacy from the estate of a deceased person: - Answer- heir A person who dies leaving a valid will is called a: - Answer- testator The funeral director is required to disclose prices over the telephone in which of the following instances: - Answer- person requesting specific service information With personal effects of a deceased in his custody, the ethical funeral director should not: - Answer- place them in a bag and leave them in the preparation room A funeral director has no liability for which drivers in the funeral procession: - Answer- volunteer A concentration of or Health 0.5 ppm calculated during an 8 hour day - Answer- action level A concentration of 2ppm in 15 minutes - Answer- Short-Term Exposure Limit A concentration of 100 ppm during an 30 minute exposure - Answer- Immediately Dangerous to Life A concentration of .75 ppm during an 8 hour day - Answer- Time Weighted Average Customs which have come to be recognized by the courts as law describes: - Answer- common law A breach of the duty of care one individual has toward others is called: - Answer- tort Which of the following is not a good example of ethical employer-employee relationships: - Answer- favoritism Which of the following should not be discussed in the funeral arrangements conference: - Answer- how many people died the night before Which of the following does not meet the criteria of a dead body: - Answer- deprived of brain waves A proportional reduction of a legacy under a will when the funds out of which such legacy are payable are not sufficient to pay it in full: - Answer- abatement Which of the following is the best way to dispose of unclaimed cremated remains: - Answer- store the remains, indefinitely if necessary Which of the following would be a part of a funeral director's personal ethics: - Answer- professionalism A work week consists of seven consecutive days beginning on any day and time and consists of how many consecutive hours: - Answer- 168 In regard to employer-employee relationships, the ethical funeral director should: - Answer- provide thorough training A particular law enacted by a legislative body: - Answer- statute A person appointed by the court to oversee the deceased estate is called: - Answer- administrator In regard to an ethical funeral director's relationship with his competitors, which of the following is considered a proper goal: - Answer- cooperation Which of the following is an allied professional or service that the ethical funeral director is professionally concerned with: - Answer- organ donation Which of the following acts is a federal statute which governs express and implied warranties: - Answer- Magnuson-Moss Act An employee required to remain on the employer's premise and is not free to leave and attend to personal affairs is considered to be which of the following: - Answer- engaged to wait Which of the following records does an employer not have to keep: - Answer- total mealtime taken Which of the following is not a purpose of the Funeral Rule: - Answer- additional paperwork for the funeral director In regard to professional boards, the ethical funeral director should not: - Answer- only abide by the rules that he agrees with Which of the following denotes good professional ethics in community relationships: - Answer- speaking to a local church group A mortuary is a: - Answer- nuisance in fact Exhumation is synonymous with the term: - Answer- disinterment A funeral director is a creditor if he extends credit how many times a year: - Answer- 25 A woman who makes a valid will: - Answer- testatrix Which of the following people would have the right to authorize cremation for Mary: - Answer- Mary's children Which type of contract is a contract set up prior to the death of an individual for the purpose of taking care of his funeral arrangements and paying for his funeral expenses: - Answer- preneed Altering of an object or a dead human body from its original condition: - Answer- mutilation A court having jurisdiction over estates: - Answer- probate The disinterment of a dead body is accomplished by court order through the: - Answer- coroner or presiding judge An addition or modification of a will is known as a: - Answer- codicil An act, occupation or structure which may become a problem by circumstances of the location or manner in which it is operated: - Answer- nuisance in fact When the duty of care that a motorist owes other motorists and pedestrians is breached and results in injury or damage to V1 another, what has been committed: - Answer- tort When the physical possession of a dead body lies with a funeral director but a certain other funeral director has control of the ultimate disposition, the second mentioned funeral director has which type of custody: - Answer- constructive The extinction or withdrawal of a legacy by an act equivalent to revocation: - Answer- ademption The ethical funeral director should not: - Answer- advise each family what casket they should select A will in which a soldier in the field or sailor at sea may dispose of personal property only: - Answer- soldiers and sailors In regards to competitive relationships, which of the following is not a good ethical practice: - Answer- defamation of competitor Law based on custom - Answer- common law Law based by example - Answer- case law An example - Answer- precedent Law of the sea - Answer- admiralty law Stand by the decision - Answer- stare decisis Which of the following is not required to be listed on the General Price List: - Answer- name of the funeral home owner Which of the following is an ethical obligation that a funeral director owes to his professional association: - Answer- participate in continuing education Which of the following is not considered ethical in regard to the deceased body: - Answer- allowing a personal friend to watch the embalming procedure One having the primary right to control final disposition of a deceased is: - Answer- surviving spouse A landowner's use of property which interferes with the public or another landowner's use of his property: - Answer- nuisance A law permitting a person to give all or a part of her body to take effect upon her death: - Answer- Uniform Anatomical Gift Act