TEXAS BARBER EXAM Practice Questions
and Answers 2026 | Updated Revision Pack
| Grade A+
• Meryma'at. CORRECT ANSWER: Egyptian barber commemorated with a statue
• Egypt. CORRECT ANSWER: Country that is credited with being the first to cultivate
beauty in an extravagant fashion
• Ticinius Mena. CORRECT ANSWER: Credited with bringing barbering and shaving to
Rome in 296 BC
• Barber-surgeons. CORRECT ANSWER: Early practitioners who cut hair, shaved and
performed bloodletting and dentistry
• Master barber group. CORRECT ANSWER: early barber employer unions
• Journeymen barber groups. CORRECT ANSWER: Early barber employee unons
• A.B. Moler. CORRECT ANSWER: wrote the first barbering textbook
• Chicago 1893. CORRECT ANSWER: What year did A.B. Moler open the first barer
school in America?
• Minnesota 1897. CORRECT ANSWER: Name the first state to pass a barber licensing
law and the year in which it was passed?
• Ambroise Pare. CORRECT ANSWER: French barber surgeon who became known as
the father of surgery
• Tonsorial. CORRECT ANSWER: related to the cutting, clipping, or trimming of hair
with shears or razor
• Tonsure. CORRECT ANSWER: A Shaved patch on the head
• Bacteria. CORRECT ANSWER: one-celled microorganism, also know as germs or
microbes
• Nonpthogenic bacteria. CORRECT ANSWER: beneficial or harmless bacteria that
perform many useful functions
• Pathogenic bacteria. CORRECT ANSWER: Harmful, disease producing bacteria
, • Staphylococci. CORRECT ANSWER: pus-forming bacteria that grow in bunches or
clusters; causes abscesses, pustules, pimples and boils-MRSA
• Streptococci. CORRECT ANSWER: bacteria are pus-forming organisms that grow in
chains and cause infections such as strep throat, tonsillitis, blood poisioning
• Diplococci. CORRECT ANSWER: bacteria that grow in pairs and cause pneumonia
and gonorrhea
• Cocci. CORRECT ANSWER: round-shaped organisms, rarely show active mobility,
transmitted in air or dust
• Bacilli. CORRECT ANSWER: short, rod-shaped organisms- diphtheria, tetanus, TB
• Spirilla. CORRECT ANSWER: curved or corkscrew-haped organisms, syphilis, lyme
disease
• Flagella, cilia. CORRECT ANSWER: hair-like extensions that propel bacteria through
liquid
• Active (vegatative) stage. CORRECT ANSWER: the stage in which bacteria grow and
reproduce
• Inactive stage. CORRECT ANSWER: the stag in which bacteria do not grow or
reproduce
• Mitosis. CORRECT ANSWER: the division of cells during reproduction into two new
cells (daughter cells)
• Spore-forming bacteria. CORRECT ANSWER: certain bacteria that have the ability to
form protective spores to survive an inactive stage- bacilli
• Staphyococci. CORRECT ANSWER: the most common pus-forming human bacteria
• Infection. CORRECT ANSWER: occurs if the body is unable to cope with the bacteria
and their harmful toxins
• Pus. CORRECT ANSWER: the presence of this is a sign of infection
• Pus. CORRECT ANSWER: a fluid that contains white blood cells, dead and living
bacteria, waste matter, tissue elements and body cells
• Local infection. CORRECT ANSWER: indicated by a lesion containing pus and usually
appears in a particular area of the body
and Answers 2026 | Updated Revision Pack
| Grade A+
• Meryma'at. CORRECT ANSWER: Egyptian barber commemorated with a statue
• Egypt. CORRECT ANSWER: Country that is credited with being the first to cultivate
beauty in an extravagant fashion
• Ticinius Mena. CORRECT ANSWER: Credited with bringing barbering and shaving to
Rome in 296 BC
• Barber-surgeons. CORRECT ANSWER: Early practitioners who cut hair, shaved and
performed bloodletting and dentistry
• Master barber group. CORRECT ANSWER: early barber employer unions
• Journeymen barber groups. CORRECT ANSWER: Early barber employee unons
• A.B. Moler. CORRECT ANSWER: wrote the first barbering textbook
• Chicago 1893. CORRECT ANSWER: What year did A.B. Moler open the first barer
school in America?
• Minnesota 1897. CORRECT ANSWER: Name the first state to pass a barber licensing
law and the year in which it was passed?
• Ambroise Pare. CORRECT ANSWER: French barber surgeon who became known as
the father of surgery
• Tonsorial. CORRECT ANSWER: related to the cutting, clipping, or trimming of hair
with shears or razor
• Tonsure. CORRECT ANSWER: A Shaved patch on the head
• Bacteria. CORRECT ANSWER: one-celled microorganism, also know as germs or
microbes
• Nonpthogenic bacteria. CORRECT ANSWER: beneficial or harmless bacteria that
perform many useful functions
• Pathogenic bacteria. CORRECT ANSWER: Harmful, disease producing bacteria
, • Staphylococci. CORRECT ANSWER: pus-forming bacteria that grow in bunches or
clusters; causes abscesses, pustules, pimples and boils-MRSA
• Streptococci. CORRECT ANSWER: bacteria are pus-forming organisms that grow in
chains and cause infections such as strep throat, tonsillitis, blood poisioning
• Diplococci. CORRECT ANSWER: bacteria that grow in pairs and cause pneumonia
and gonorrhea
• Cocci. CORRECT ANSWER: round-shaped organisms, rarely show active mobility,
transmitted in air or dust
• Bacilli. CORRECT ANSWER: short, rod-shaped organisms- diphtheria, tetanus, TB
• Spirilla. CORRECT ANSWER: curved or corkscrew-haped organisms, syphilis, lyme
disease
• Flagella, cilia. CORRECT ANSWER: hair-like extensions that propel bacteria through
liquid
• Active (vegatative) stage. CORRECT ANSWER: the stage in which bacteria grow and
reproduce
• Inactive stage. CORRECT ANSWER: the stag in which bacteria do not grow or
reproduce
• Mitosis. CORRECT ANSWER: the division of cells during reproduction into two new
cells (daughter cells)
• Spore-forming bacteria. CORRECT ANSWER: certain bacteria that have the ability to
form protective spores to survive an inactive stage- bacilli
• Staphyococci. CORRECT ANSWER: the most common pus-forming human bacteria
• Infection. CORRECT ANSWER: occurs if the body is unable to cope with the bacteria
and their harmful toxins
• Pus. CORRECT ANSWER: the presence of this is a sign of infection
• Pus. CORRECT ANSWER: a fluid that contains white blood cells, dead and living
bacteria, waste matter, tissue elements and body cells
• Local infection. CORRECT ANSWER: indicated by a lesion containing pus and usually
appears in a particular area of the body
