This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 132 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 132 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following symptoms are commonly associated with cataracts? A) Blurred vision, difficulty seeing at night, and increased sensitivity to glare. B) Seeing "floaters" or spots in vision, along with sudden flashes of light. C) Loss of peripheral vision and tunnel vision. D) Gradual loss of central vision with distortion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blurred vision, difficulty seeing at night, and increased sensitivity to glare. 2. Your skin is the organ of ..... A) Sight. B) Taste. C) Hearing. D) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Touch. 3. ..... are short and branching and receive signals from other neurons. A) Dendrites. B) Stimuli. C) Neuron. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dendrites. 4. The sensory branch of a spinal nerve by which it joins the spinal cord A) Ganglia. B) Dorsal root. C) Ascending tract. D) Ventral root. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dorsal root. 5. Which system increases the heart rate? A) Sympathetic. B) Parasympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic. 6. What is perception A) The inward angle of the eyes focusing on a near object. B) The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events. C) A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another. D) The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events. 7. What are the two main parts of your nervous system? A) Muscles and skeleton. B) Hands and feet. C) Central nervous system (CNS) & peripheral nervous system (PNS). D) Peripheral nervous system and glial cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Central nervous system (CNS) & peripheral nervous system (PNS). 8. The central nervous system contains which structures? A) Only the brain. B) Only nerves. C) Arms and legs. D) Brain and spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brain and spinal cord. 9. Which part of the brain that controls your spinal cord? A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum. C) Medulla. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medulla. 10. Small branches of the lungs that take air towards the alveoli A) Diaphragm. B) Bronchioles. C) Pulmonary Capillaries. D) Left/Right Bronchi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bronchioles. 11. The largest and longest nerve in the body is the ..... A) Sciatic. B) Femoral. C) Vagus. D) Phrenic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sciatic. 12. True/False:migraines is/are a symptom of multiple sclerosis. A) False; hair loss. B) False; hyperactivity. C) False; paralysis. D) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) False; paralysis. 13. What's another name for sight? A) Gustation. B) Olfaction. C) Vision. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vision. 14. What controls voluntary movement? A) Somatic System. B) Central. C) Autonomic System. D) Peripheral. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Somatic System. 15. Which of the following is considered the body's thermostat and also regulates metabolism and water balance? A) Hypothalamus. B) Medulla oblongata. C) Thalamus. D) Pons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypothalamus. 16. Condition in postsynaptic cell if potassium or chloride channels open A) Presynaptic terminal. B) Hyperpolarized. C) Postsynaptic terminal. D) Depolarized. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperpolarized. 17. What is the iris A) The colored part of the eye that controls the size of the pupil. B) Transparent jellylike fluid that fills the eye and refracts light. C) Sends messages picked up by the retina to the brain. D) Hole passes different amounts of light. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The colored part of the eye that controls the size of the pupil. 18. Which of the following correctly describes the subdivisions of the autonomic nervous system? A) Somatic and automatic. B) Motor and sensory. C) Sympathetic and Parasympathetic. D) Neuroglia and neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sympathetic and Parasympathetic. 19. Which division of the Peripheral Nervous System sends information from receptors in the body to the brain and spinal cord? A) Afferent division. B) Efferent division. C) Visceral motor division. D) Somatic motor division. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Afferent division. 20. Laying in a hammock reading a book at the beach. A) Sympathetic. B) Parasympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic. 21. Which section of the brain is concerned with reasoning? A) Cerebrum. B) Brain stem". C) Cerebellum". D) Diencephalon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum. 22. What is one of the basic functions of the nervous system? A) To produce hormones. B) To provide structural support to the body. C) To transport nutrients. D) To sense changes within our bodies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To sense changes within our bodies. 23. How did the woman in the video save herself? A) She called an ambulance. B) She went too the street and ask for help. C) She called a friend. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She called a friend. 24. What eye condition can occur in someone with a normally shaped eyeball? A) Myopia. B) Presbyopia. C) Astigmatism. D) Hyperopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Astigmatism. 25. Which one is not sensed by touch? A) Humidity. B) Temperature. C) Taste. D) Texture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taste. 26. Active neurons require large amounts of ATP for all of the following, except A) Synthesis and recycling of neurotransmitters. B) Axoplasmic transport in the axon. C) The activity of the sodium-potassium pump. D) All the above. E) Non of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 27. Nerve impulses always move from the ..... towards the ..... A) Axon, dendrite. B) Axon, myelin. C) Dendrite, axon. D) Myelin, nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dendrite, axon. 28. The thick column of nerve tissue that links the brain to most of the nerves in the peripheral nervous system is the A) Cerebellum. B) Cornea. C) Brain. D) Spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spinal cord. 29. The part of the nervous system that includes the nerves A) Central nervous system. B) Peripheral nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peripheral nervous system. 30. What is the function of the vagus nerve? A) Controls the face & jaw muscles. B) Controls taste and salivation. C) Controls muscles in the neck. D) Controls the heart & digestive tract. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Controls the heart & digestive tract. 31. Parasympathetic action A) Is described as fight or flight. B) Acts to produce the sam effects as the sympathetic division. C) Increases overall vasotone. D) Has no effect on blood flow to the skeletal muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Has no effect on blood flow to the skeletal muscle. 32. What type of muscles line your digestive system? A) Skeletal. B) Smooth. C) Cardiac. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Smooth. 33. What is part of the PERIPHERAL nervous system? A) Spinal Cord. B) Eyes. C) Brain. D) Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nerves. 34. Which system includes bones, cartilage, and ligaments? A) Excretory. B) Skeletal. C) Muscular. D) Nervous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skeletal. 35. Cranial nerve XII is ..... A) Glossopharyngeal. B) Trigeminal. C) Accessory. D) Hypoglossal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hypoglossal. 36. The Autonomic Nervous system includes the A) CNS and PNS. B) Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System. C) Somatic and Sympathetic Nervous System. D) Sensory and motor Neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System. 37. Gap between adjacent neurons A) Conclusion. B) Synaptic cleft. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synaptic cleft. 38. Photoreceptors that detect gray tones in low light A) Rods. B) Cones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rods. 39. Which two systems work together to ensure that all the parts of the body get nutrients from food? A) Skeletal system and nervous system. B) Nervous system and digestive system. C) Circulatory system and skeletal system. D) Digestive system and circulatory system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Digestive system and circulatory system. 40. The parasympathetic nervous system would be responsible for ..... blood flow to the intestines, ..... heart output, and activating ..... glands. A) Decreasing, increasing, sweat. B) Decreasing, increasing, salivary. C) Increasing, decreasing, sweat. D) Increasing, decreasing, salivary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increasing, decreasing, salivary. 41. Which of these parts of the eye is a gel-like or liquidy substance? A) Retina. B) Vitreous humor. C) Cornea. D) Oval window. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vitreous humor. 42. Generally cube-shaped A) Irregular Bone. B) Flat Bone. C) Short Bone. D) Long Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Short Bone. 43. What is the role of synaptic vesicles in synaptic transmission? A) They bind to receptors on the postsynaptic neuron. B) They open Ca²⁺ channels on the presynaptic terminal. C) They release neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft. D) They re-uptake neurotransmitters from the synaptic cleft. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They release neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft. 44. What is medulla oblongata? A) It takes 85% weight of the brain. B) The best part of the brain. C) Largest part. D) Brain stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brain stem. 45. Station 2:What are the 3 general parts of the brain? A) Frontal lobe, parietal lobe, and occipital lobe. B) Cerebrum, cerebellum, and, brainstem. C) Cerebral cortex, central nervous system, and peripheral nervous system. D) 1, 2, and 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frontal lobe, parietal lobe, and occipital lobe. 46. Why do older dogs lose some hearing? A) They don't, they are just ignoring you. B) Arthritis in the outer ear. C) Arthritis in the middle ear. D) Waxy build up. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arthritis in the middle ear. 47. Which of the following is not a functional classification of neurons? A) Sensory (afferent) neurons. B) Motor (efferent) neurons. C) Unipolar neurons. D) Interneurons (association neurons). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unipolar neurons. 48. Which part of the brain is responsible forming long-term memories? A) Hippocampus. B) Cerebellum. C) A calloused body. D) Brain stem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hippocampus. 49. Motor neurons transmit signals from the Central Nervous System (CNS) to muscles and glands. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 50. Which lobe of the cerebrum involves auditory processing and emotion? A) Frontal. B) Parietal. C) Occipital. D) Temporal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temporal. 51. What body system controls our thoughts and actions? A) Circulatory System. B) Respiratory System. C) Nervous System. D) Muscular System. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nervous System. 52. Sensation is ..... A) When the brain interprets the sensory input. B) The awareness of a stimulus that occurs when the brain receives sensory impulses. C) When the brain send the sensation back to its point of origin, so the person can pinpoint the area of stimulation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The awareness of a stimulus that occurs when the brain receives sensory impulses. 53. The nurse is performing a mental status examination on a male client diagnosed with subdural hematoma. This test assesses which of the following? A) Sensory function. B) Intellectual function. C) Cerebral function. D) Cerebellar function. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebral function. 54. The brain weighs ..... A) 10-11 pounds. B) 2-3 pounds. C) 6-7 pounds. D) 4-5 pounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2-3 pounds. 55. What of these is not an organ of the nervous system? A) Spinal cord. B) Nerves. C) Heart. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heart. 56. What system consists of visceral motor nerve fibers that regulate the activity of smooth muscles, cardiac muscles, and glands A) Autonomic nervous system. B) Somatic nervous system. C) Central nervous system. D) Peripheral nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autonomic nervous system. 57. Thermoreceptors (cells on our skin that determine the temperature) are an example of ..... A) Sensory Receptor. B) Effector. C) Response. D) Stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory Receptor. 58. Nerve cells that pass signals from the brain or spinal cord to a muscle or gland. A) Neurons. B) Sensory Neurons. C) Motor Neurons. D) Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motor Neurons. 59. Skin gets it colour from A) Melanin. B) Microvilli. C) You. D) Peach colour. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Melanin. 60. Which part of the brain controls body temperature? A) Medulla oblongata. B) Hypothalamus. C) Cerebellum. D) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothalamus. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesNervous System Quiz 1Nervous System Quiz 2Nervous System Quiz 3Nervous System Quiz 4Nervous System Quiz 5Nervous System Quiz 6Nervous System Quiz 7Nervous System Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books