TN State Law Exam- Funeral Directing
questions and answers
This is the person who is legally entitled to authorize cremation, funeral service, and
dispositions: - ANS ✔✔authorizing agent
Can a licensed funeral director authorize a cremation? - ANS ✔✔NO
This is the heating process where a body is reduced to bone fragments by combustion or
evaporation? - ANS ✔✔cremation
This is the building that houses one or more cremation chambers this also includes the term
"crematorium": - ANS ✔✔crematory
This is the preservation, disinfection, restoration, or attempted preservation by chemicals
externally or internally applied? - ANS ✔✔embalming
This is the directing/supervising or preparing the dead for disposition other than embalming? -
ANS ✔✔funeral directing
This is the making of funeral arrangements, providing funeral services, selling merchandise,
making financial arrangements, and rendering services? - ANS ✔✔funeral directing
This is providing a place for the preparation of the dead? - ANS ✔✔funeral directing
This is the use of the terms funeral director, undertaker, mortician, funeral parlor, or funeral
chapel? - ANS ✔✔funeral directing
, Is it against the law to hold oneself out as a funeral director? - ANS ✔✔yes
What is exempted from the definition of funeral directing? - ANS ✔✔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? - ANS ✔✔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? - ANS ✔✔funeral director or embalmer issued by the state board
What is a trainee/apprentice? - ANS ✔✔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? - ANS ✔✔Tennessee Funeral Directors Association and
the Tennessee Funeral Directors & Morticians Association
What about religious exemptions for the funeral law? - ANS ✔✔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? - ANS ✔✔duty of the district attorney general
What is required to be on all funeral merchandise? - ANS ✔✔In a conspicuous place a
description of the casket, gauge, and materials
questions and answers
This is the person who is legally entitled to authorize cremation, funeral service, and
dispositions: - ANS ✔✔authorizing agent
Can a licensed funeral director authorize a cremation? - ANS ✔✔NO
This is the heating process where a body is reduced to bone fragments by combustion or
evaporation? - ANS ✔✔cremation
This is the building that houses one or more cremation chambers this also includes the term
"crematorium": - ANS ✔✔crematory
This is the preservation, disinfection, restoration, or attempted preservation by chemicals
externally or internally applied? - ANS ✔✔embalming
This is the directing/supervising or preparing the dead for disposition other than embalming? -
ANS ✔✔funeral directing
This is the making of funeral arrangements, providing funeral services, selling merchandise,
making financial arrangements, and rendering services? - ANS ✔✔funeral directing
This is providing a place for the preparation of the dead? - ANS ✔✔funeral directing
This is the use of the terms funeral director, undertaker, mortician, funeral parlor, or funeral
chapel? - ANS ✔✔funeral directing
, Is it against the law to hold oneself out as a funeral director? - ANS ✔✔yes
What is exempted from the definition of funeral directing? - ANS ✔✔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? - ANS ✔✔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? - ANS ✔✔funeral director or embalmer issued by the state board
What is a trainee/apprentice? - ANS ✔✔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? - ANS ✔✔Tennessee Funeral Directors Association and
the Tennessee Funeral Directors & Morticians Association
What about religious exemptions for the funeral law? - ANS ✔✔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? - ANS ✔✔duty of the district attorney general
What is required to be on all funeral merchandise? - ANS ✔✔In a conspicuous place a
description of the casket, gauge, and materials
