This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 180 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 180 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name of the soluble factor that results in fibrinolysis? A) Alpha 2 antiplasmin. B) Plasmin. C) Tissue plasminogen activator. D) Fibrin degradation product. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plasmin. 2. Volume is determined by the ..... of the sound wave A) Frequency. B) Amplitude. C) Loudness. D) Pitch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amplitude. 3. Membrane of the dendrite or effector cell A) Presynaptic terminal. B) Neurotransmitters. C) Hyperpolarized. D) Postsynaptic membrane. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Postsynaptic membrane. 4. Which neuroglia cell does not belong in the CNS? A) Astrocytes. B) Satellite cells. C) Ependymal cell. D) Microglial cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Satellite cells. 5. The ..... nervous system arouses the body during times of stress A) Somatic nervous system. B) Parasympathetic nervous system. C) Sympathetic nervous system. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sympathetic nervous system. 6. The cells that send and receive signals A) Neurons. B) Protons. C) Neutrons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neurons. 7. How do neurons carry information A) By electrical charges. B) By blood. C) By bones. D) By oxygen in the blood. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By electrical charges. 8. The motor function is divided into two categories. Which transmits voluntary instructions to muscles? A) Autonomic. B) Somatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Somatic. 9. What are the chemicals that aid in transmission of the electrical impulse from one neuron to the next? A) Conclusion. B) Cell body. C) Neurotransmitter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neurotransmitter. 10. Can you feel this pin A) Can feel cotton. B) Can feel the pin. C) There is pain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Can feel the pin. 11. Which branch of the nervous system is directly responsible for controlling your heart rate, breathing rate and digestive system? A) Somatic nervous system. B) Central nervous system. C) Parasympathetic nervous system. D) Autonomic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Autonomic nervous system. 12. What is the key role of the nervous system? A) Digest food. B) Communication system around the body. C) Sweat glands. D) Muscle movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Communication system around the body. 13. What is the space inside the iris called? A) Pupil. B) Choroid. C) Ciliary body. D) Lens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pupil. 14. In assessing CN XI, what should the examiner do? A) Put resistance from your hands to the patient's shoulders. B) Ask client to protrude tongue at midline, then move it side to side. C) Ask client to move tongue from side to side and up and down. D) Ask client to smile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Put resistance from your hands to the patient's shoulders. 15. What part of the neuron is myelinated? A) Cell Body. B) Axon. C) Conclusion. D) Dendrite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axon. 16. What is the longest bone in a human? A) Humerur. B) Stirrup. C) Femur. D) Backbone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Femur. 17. As an impulse enters a nerve cell, describe the way it travels through this nerve cell. A) Cell body $\rightarrow$ dendrite $\rightarrow$ axon. B) Dendrite $\rightarrow$ cell body $\rightarrow$ axon. C) Cell body $\rightarrow$ axon $\rightarrow$ dendrite. D) Dendrite $\rightarrow$ axon $\rightarrow$ axon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dendrite $\rightarrow$ cell body $\rightarrow$ axon. 18. A soccer player has been taken to the hospital with a painful injury. The doctor explains that she has ripped the place in her ankle where the bone was attached to the muscle. Bones cannot move without muscles. What did the soccer player rip? A) Tendon. B) Joint. C) Socket. D) Ligament. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tendon. 19. Neurotransmitter destroyed by A) Amino acids. B) Hydrogen carboxyl complex. C) Nitrogen. D) Enzymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enzymes. 20. The part of the brain which controls emotion, behavior, memory, emotional learning, fear, anxiety, & pleasure is ..... A) Limbic System / Frontal Lobe. B) Hepatic System / Midbrain. C) Autonomic System / Medulla. D) Parasympathetic System / Corpus Callosum. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limbic System / Frontal Lobe. 21. What is any quick response to stimuli that skips the brain? A) Reflex. B) Blink. C) Knee jerk. D) Voluntary action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reflex. 22. Which of the following acts as a relay center for somatesthetic sensation? A) The red nucleus. B) The hypothalamus. C) The cerebellum. D) The thalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The thalamus. 23. Your senses are connected to which system? A) Circulatory. B) Autonomic. C) Peripheral nervous system. D) Frontal lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peripheral nervous system. 24. The main function of the nervous system is to maintain A) Chaos. B) Motor functions. C) Homeostasis. D) Tranquility. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homeostasis. 25. This tissue is found in the camera eyes of cephalopods and vertebrates and is densely packed with photoreceptors. A) Cornea. B) Sclera. C) Choroid. D) Retina. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Retina. 26. Which muscle can you not consciously control? A) Involuntary. B) Smooth. C) Cardiac. D) Voluntary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Involuntary. 27. Which of the following is the name of the cell that supports the transmitting cells of the nervous system? A) Conclusion. B) Efferent Neuron. C) Afferent Neuron. D) Neuroglia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neuroglia. 28. Which neurotransmitter is involved in the "Fight or Flight" response? A) Endorphins. B) Serotonin. C) Norepinephrine. D) Acetylcholine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Norepinephrine. 29. When your nervous systems lets you decide what happens to you body like raising a hand or going for a walk this is considered a ..... A) Voluntary control. B) Reflex. C) Neuron. D) Involuntary Control. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voluntary control. 30. This controls the sensory function of touch to the skin. A) Parietal. B) Occipital. C) Insula. D) Temporal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parietal. 31. What two systems work together as your body's communication system? A) Nervous/muscular. B) Nervous/respiratory. C) Endocrine/nervous. D) Endocrine/respiratory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Endocrine/nervous. 32. Mrs. Rogers likes to light scented candles during Christmas time. After a few days she could no longer smell the candles. This is an example of A) Afterimage. B) Accurate depth perception. C) Bone conduction. D) Olfactory fatigue (nose blind). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Olfactory fatigue (nose blind). 33. Specialized cells of the nervous system that carry messages through an electrochemical process. A) Soma. B) Neurons. C) Axons. D) Dendrites. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neurons. 34. The sympathetic system is responsible for which of the following A) Fight or flight. B) Rest and digest. C) Relaxed state. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fight or flight. 35. The gap between two communicating neurons is termed: A) Synaptic cleft. B) Node of Ranvier. C) Cell body. D) Effector. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synaptic cleft. 36. A man was hit in the head and now has difficulty walking and maintaining his balance. What part of the brain is MOST LIKELY affected? A) Cerebrum. B) Midbrain. C) Pons. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cerebellum. 37. What part of the Nervous system is responsible of automatic stress responses? A) Parasympathetic. B) Sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic. 38. What is the English Meaning of the Medical Term Myel/o [ MYELO ]? A) Positive deviation. B) Paralysis [ Paralyzed ]. C) Bone Marrow or Spinal Chord. D) Tension. E) Pain, Painful Condition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bone Marrow or Spinal Chord. 39. Which lobe of the brain was damaged in Phineas Gage A) Frontal. B) Parietal. C) Temporal. D) Occipital. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frontal. 40. The following auditory-related constructs. a) Inferior colliculus b) Cochlear nucleus c) Medial geniculate nucleus d) Trapezoid body e) Lateral lemniscus f) Auditory cortexWhat is the order in the transmission of auditory messages? A) B-d-e-a-c-f. B) B-e-d-a-c-f. C) B-e-d-c-a-f. D) B-d-e-c-a-f. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B-d-e-a-c-f. 41. The Cerebellum is located ..... A) In your stomach. B) In the back of your brain. C) Behind your forehead. D) In the center of your brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the back of your brain. 42. Which structure in the eye causes a blind spot? A) Retina. B) Cornea. C) Vitreous humour. D) Optic nerve. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Optic nerve. 43. Which of the following do scientists believe is responsible for your personality? A) Temporal lobe. B) Frontal lobe. C) Occipital lobe. D) Parietal lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frontal lobe. 44. Which of the following nerve impulses travels the fastest? A) Information or impulses from touching an object. B) An impulse signaling limb position. C) Thought signals, such as reading. D) Impulses transmitting the sensation of pain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An impulse signaling limb position. 45. A typical reflex arc begins with stimulation of what? A) Motor neuron. B) Receptor. C) Integration center. D) Effector. E) Sensory neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Receptor. 46. The nervous system involves the use of both electrical signals (nerve impulses) and chemical signals (neurotransmitters). A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 47. Includes all nerves outside of the Central Nervous System, which are the car drivers A) Central Nervous System. B) Autonomic Nervous System. C) Peripheral Nervous System. D) Concussion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peripheral Nervous System. 48. Sympathetic nervous system is a part ofcentral nervous system. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 49. Clouding of the eye's lens occurs in A) Macular degeneration. B) Astigmatism. C) Cateracts. D) Glaucoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cateracts. 50. This system promotes the FIGHT OR FLIGHT response A) Sympathetic. B) Parasympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic. 51. What is the job of the olfactory cells? A) To process the different flavors in your tongue. B) To process smells in your nose. C) To process light. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To process smells in your nose. 52. Which part of the nervous is needed to react to stress? A) Spinal cord. B) Sympathetic NS. C) Somatic NS. D) Parasympathetic NS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sympathetic NS. 53. The coloured circle in the eye is known as A) Eyelash. B) Pupil. C) Iris. D) Cornea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iris. 54. Neurons that function to connect neurons to other neurons in the central nervous system are called ..... A) Sensory. B) Adjustor. C) Connector. D) Engines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connector. 55. An undersupply of this neurotransmitter is associated with paralysis and Alzheimer's disease. A) Serotonin. B) Acetylcholine. C) Dopamine. D) GABA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acetylcholine. 56. What is the function of the motor nerves? A) Carry stimuli from the various sense organs to the brain. B) Carry impulses from the brain or other nerve centers to the muscles. C) Connect the nerves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carry impulses from the brain or other nerve centers to the muscles. 57. The visual cortex is an example of a collection of neurons with a shared function, which is called a ..... A) Ganglia. B) Plexus. C) Center. D) Nerve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Center. 58. The end point of the neuron where neurotransmitters are stored A) Axon. B) Dendrite. C) Conclusion. D) Axon terminal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Axon terminal. 59. A large, sack-like organ that churns the food and bathes it in a very strong gastric acid. A) Stomach. B) Small Intestine. C) Large Intestine. D) Pancreas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stomach. 60. Approximately how many muscles is the human body made up of? A) 600. B) 206. C) 400. D) 500. 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