Texas Barber Exam Questions with
Complete Solutions
Barba - Answer-Latin for beard
Meryma'at - Answer-Egyptian barber commemorated with a statue
Egypt - Answer-Country that is credited with being the first to cultivate beauty in an
extravagant fashion
Ticinius Mena - Answer-Credited with bringing barbering and shaving to Rome in 296
BC
Barber-surgeons - Answer-Early practitioners who cut hair, shaved and performed
bloodletting and dentistry
Master barber group - Answer-early barber employer unions
Journeymen barber groups - Answer-Early barber employee unons
A.B. Moler - Answer-wrote the first barbering textbook
Chicago 1893 - Answer-What year did A.B. Moler open the first barer school in
America?
Minnesota 1897 - Answer-Name the first state to pass a barber licensing law and the
year in which it was passed?
Ambroise Pare - Answer-French barber surgeon who became known as the father of
surgery
Tonsorial - Answer-related to the cutting, clipping, or trimming of hair with shears or
razor
Tonsure - Answer-A Shaved patch on the head
Bacteria - Answer-one-celled microorganism, also know as germs or microbes
Nonpathogenic bacteria - Answer-beneficial or harmless bacteria that perform many
useful functions
Pathogenic bacteria - Answer-Harmful, disease producing bacteria
, Staphylococci - Answer-pus-forming bacteria that grow in bunches or clusters; causes
abscesses, pustules, pimples and boils-MRSA
Streptococci - Answer-bacteria are pus-forming organisms that grow in chains and
cause infections such as strep throat, tonsillitis, blood poisioning
Diplococci - Answer-bacteria that grow in pairs and cause pneumonia and gonorrhea
Cocci - Answer-round-shaped organisms, rarely show active mobility, transmitted in air
or dust
Bacilli - Answer-short, rod-shaped organisms- diphtheria, tetanus, TB
Spirilla - Answer-curved or corkscrew-haped organisms, syphilis, lyme disease
Flagella, cilia - Answer-hair-like extensions that propel bacteria through liquid
Active (vegatative) stage - Answer-the stage in which bacteria grow and reproduce
Inactive stage - Answer-the stag in which bacteria do not grow or reproduce
Mitosis - Answer-the division of cells during reproduction into two new cells (daughter
cells)
Spore-forming bacteria - Answer-certain bacteria that have the ability to form protective
spores to survive an inactive stage- bacilli
Staphyococci - Answer-the most common pus-forming human bacteria
Infection - Answer-occurs if the body is unable to cope with the bacteria and their
harmful toxins
Pus - Answer-the presence of this is a sign of infection
Pus - Answer-a fluid that contains white blood cells, dead and living bacteria, waste
matter, tissue elements and body cells
Local infection - Answer-indicated by a lesion containing pus and usually appears in a
particular area of the body
General infection - Answer-results when the blood stream carries the bacteria and their
toxins to all parts of the body
Contagious (communicable) - Answer-a disease that may be transmitted by contact
HIV - Answer-the virus that causes AIDS
Complete Solutions
Barba - Answer-Latin for beard
Meryma'at - Answer-Egyptian barber commemorated with a statue
Egypt - Answer-Country that is credited with being the first to cultivate beauty in an
extravagant fashion
Ticinius Mena - Answer-Credited with bringing barbering and shaving to Rome in 296
BC
Barber-surgeons - Answer-Early practitioners who cut hair, shaved and performed
bloodletting and dentistry
Master barber group - Answer-early barber employer unions
Journeymen barber groups - Answer-Early barber employee unons
A.B. Moler - Answer-wrote the first barbering textbook
Chicago 1893 - Answer-What year did A.B. Moler open the first barer school in
America?
Minnesota 1897 - Answer-Name the first state to pass a barber licensing law and the
year in which it was passed?
Ambroise Pare - Answer-French barber surgeon who became known as the father of
surgery
Tonsorial - Answer-related to the cutting, clipping, or trimming of hair with shears or
razor
Tonsure - Answer-A Shaved patch on the head
Bacteria - Answer-one-celled microorganism, also know as germs or microbes
Nonpathogenic bacteria - Answer-beneficial or harmless bacteria that perform many
useful functions
Pathogenic bacteria - Answer-Harmful, disease producing bacteria
, Staphylococci - Answer-pus-forming bacteria that grow in bunches or clusters; causes
abscesses, pustules, pimples and boils-MRSA
Streptococci - Answer-bacteria are pus-forming organisms that grow in chains and
cause infections such as strep throat, tonsillitis, blood poisioning
Diplococci - Answer-bacteria that grow in pairs and cause pneumonia and gonorrhea
Cocci - Answer-round-shaped organisms, rarely show active mobility, transmitted in air
or dust
Bacilli - Answer-short, rod-shaped organisms- diphtheria, tetanus, TB
Spirilla - Answer-curved or corkscrew-haped organisms, syphilis, lyme disease
Flagella, cilia - Answer-hair-like extensions that propel bacteria through liquid
Active (vegatative) stage - Answer-the stage in which bacteria grow and reproduce
Inactive stage - Answer-the stag in which bacteria do not grow or reproduce
Mitosis - Answer-the division of cells during reproduction into two new cells (daughter
cells)
Spore-forming bacteria - Answer-certain bacteria that have the ability to form protective
spores to survive an inactive stage- bacilli
Staphyococci - Answer-the most common pus-forming human bacteria
Infection - Answer-occurs if the body is unable to cope with the bacteria and their
harmful toxins
Pus - Answer-the presence of this is a sign of infection
Pus - Answer-a fluid that contains white blood cells, dead and living bacteria, waste
matter, tissue elements and body cells
Local infection - Answer-indicated by a lesion containing pus and usually appears in a
particular area of the body
General infection - Answer-results when the blood stream carries the bacteria and their
toxins to all parts of the body
Contagious (communicable) - Answer-a disease that may be transmitted by contact
HIV - Answer-the virus that causes AIDS
