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Life Insurance Practice Questions

639 free life insurance questions for the California Life & Health insurance license exam. Pick any question — answer it and get the full 3-part explanation, no signup required.

  1. 1.When a client purchases a life insurance policy, the client is using which risk management technique with r…
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  2. 2.In a life insurance policy, the party who pays the premium and holds all ownership rights, such as naming t…
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  3. 3.In a life insurance policy, which party generally has the legal right to exercise the policy's ownership pr…
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  4. 4.In a life insurance policy where the policyowner and the insured are different people, which statement corr…
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  5. 5.What is the defining purpose of a life insurance policy?
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  6. 6.In a life insurance policy, which party holds all of the contractual ownership rights, including the right …
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  7. 7.A client is deciding how to handle the financial risk that her premature death could leave her family witho…
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  8. 8.In a life insurance policy, which statement correctly distinguishes the roles of the applicant, the insured…
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  9. 9.Which party to a life insurance contract is entitled to exercise the ownership rights, such as changing the…
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  10. 10.In an individual life insurance policy, the person whose life is insured and whose death triggers payment o…
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  11. 11.Under a life insurance policy, which party holds the right to name or change the beneficiary, assign the po…
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  12. 12.Under a life insurance policy, which party has the right to change the beneficiary, assign the policy, and …
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  13. 13.In an individual life insurance policy, which person holds the rights under the contract during the insured…
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  14. 14.A business sets aside its own funds to pay for expected minor losses rather than buying insurance, while pu…
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  15. 15.Under a life insurance policy, which party generally has the right to change the beneficiary, assign the po…
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  16. 16.A business owner wants a life insurance arrangement under which, if a key employee dies, the business will …
    Difficulty 2/5
  17. 17.A closely held corporation wants to provide supplemental retirement income to a key executive. Under the pl…
    Difficulty 2/5
  18. 18.A family decides to purchase a life insurance policy on the primary wage earner so that the insurer will pa…
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  19. 19.In a life insurance contract, which statement correctly describes the difference between the policyowner an…
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  20. 20.A family purchases life insurance so that surviving family members will be paid a death benefit if the brea…
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  21. 21.Under a life insurance policy, the right to change the beneficiary, assign the policy, take a policy loan, …
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  22. 22.Purchasing a life insurance policy is best described as applying which risk management technique?
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  23. 23.A business owner decides to absorb smaller, predictable losses out of the company's own savings rather than…
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  24. 24.A business owner decides to set aside funds to cover a small, expected property loss rather than buying ins…
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  25. 25.A 40-year-old buys a term life policy instead of setting money aside, because her family could not absorb t…
    Difficulty 2/5
  26. 26.In the risk management process, an individual who purchases a life insurance policy has most directly engag…
    Difficulty 1/5
  27. 27.Which step should come FIRST in the individual life insurance planning process?
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  28. 28.A business purchases life insurance on its key employees to fund the financial loss their deaths would caus…
    Difficulty 1/5
  29. 29.A family purchases life insurance so that, if the breadwinner dies, the insurer bears the financial burden …
    Difficulty 1/5
  30. 30.A business promises an executive retirement benefits and uses life insurance to fund the promise. The emplo…
    Difficulty 2/5
  31. 31.A corporation wants to provide additional retirement income to key executives and owns life insurance polic…
    Difficulty 2/5
  32. 32.A business wishes to fund a deferred compensation arrangement for a key executive. How is life insurance co…
    Difficulty 2/5
  33. 33.An employer wants to reward a key executive with retirement income but must restrict eligibility to a selec…
    Difficulty 2/5
  34. 34.A professional firm wants to guarantee that a key employee's salary will keep flowing if the employee is un…
    Difficulty 2/5
  35. 35.A corporation promises to pay a key executive retirement benefits, with the executive's family to receive a…
    Difficulty 2/5
  36. 36.An employer wants to provide supplemental retirement income to a valued executive using life insurance. The…
    Difficulty 2/5
  37. 37.A wage earner buys life insurance so that, if the wage earner dies, the family receives a lump sum to repla…
    Difficulty 1/5
  38. 38.An employer wants to fund a retirement benefit for a key executive by purchasing life insurance on the exec…
    Difficulty 2/5
  39. 39.An employer arranges for a life insurance policy on a key executive and agrees to pay the executive supplem…
    Difficulty 2/5
  40. 40.In a split-dollar life insurance arrangement between an employer and a key employee, which statement best d…
    Difficulty 2/5
  41. 41.An employer promises an executive retirement benefits in the future and uses life insurance on the executiv…
    Difficulty 2/5
  42. 42.Before recommending a specific life insurance policy, an agent conducts a personal fact-finding interview t…
    Difficulty 2/5
  43. 43.Which of the following is guaranteed in a traditional whole life policy?
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  44. 44.In a term life insurance policy, the insurer's limit of liability is best described as:
    Difficulty 2/5
  45. 45.A universal life policy is often described as an "unbundled" product. What does this mean?
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  46. 46.A corporation wants to provide an executive with a benefit paid after retirement, funded while the executiv…
    Difficulty 2/5
  47. 47.A corporation wants to reward a key executive by promising retirement income to be paid later, and uses a l…
    Difficulty 2/5
  48. 48.A small business owner wants the business to continue paying the owner's family a specified income for a se…
    Difficulty 2/5
  49. 49.An employer uses life insurance to fund a plan that will continue paying a deceased employee's salary to th…
    Difficulty 1/5
  50. 50.When a person buys life insurance, which risk management technique is being used with respect to the financ…
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