This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 224 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 224 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The term effector is used when referring to A) Muscles or gland. B) Sense organs. C) CNS. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muscles or gland. 2. What is Alzheimer's Disease? A) A condition in which bones become weak and brittle. B) Progressive mental deterioration due to generalized degeneration of the brain. C) A disorder of the central nervous system that affects movement. D) Inflammation of the lining of bronchial tubes, which carry air to and from the lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Progressive mental deterioration due to generalized degeneration of the brain. 3. Which of the following is the most common structure of a neuron? A) Multipolar. B) Unipolar. C) Bipolar. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multipolar. 4. Ability to respond to simuli A) Conductivity. B) Irritability. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irritability. 5. Seen in Parkinson's disease A) "pill-rolling" movements. B) Painful tic. C) Bell's palsy. D) Stroke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "pill-rolling" movements. 6. Controls voluntary actions-part of the PNS A) Autonomic Nervous System. B) Somatic Nervous System. C) Immune System. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Somatic Nervous System. 7. Which layer of the eye contains the iris and the pupil? A) Retina. B) Sclera. C) Cornea. D) Choroid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Choroid. 8. What does Norepinephrine do? A) Increases your heart rate. B) Increases motivation and pleasure. C) Calms you down. D) Makes you angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increases your heart rate. 9. Which part of the brain is responsible for controlling movement initiation during exercise? A) Cerebellum. B) Hippocampus. C) Basal ganglia. D) Thalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Basal ganglia. 10. What happens when your spinal cord is broken? A) You can't send messages to your brain. B) You can't talk. C) You can't see. D) You can't eat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You can't send messages to your brain. 11. Place the steps of a nerve impulse in the correct order. A) Action potential $\rightarrow$ depolarization $\rightarrow$ repolarization $\rightarrow$ stimulus $\rightarrow$ polarization. B) Stimulus $\rightarrow$ polarization $\rightarrow$ action potential $\rightarrow$ depolarization $\rightarrow$ repolarization. C) Polarization $\rightarrow$ stimulus $\rightarrow$ depolarization $\rightarrow$ action potential $\rightarrow$ repolarization. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polarization $\rightarrow$ stimulus $\rightarrow$ depolarization $\rightarrow$ action potential $\rightarrow$ repolarization. 12. A nerve impulse is an ..... across neurons. A) Neurotransmitter. B) Electrical transmission. C) Negative stimulation. D) Permeation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Electrical transmission. 13. Which surgical treatment relieves pressure on a nerve root? A) Radiculotomy. B) Radiculotomy. C) Decompression. D) Myelotomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decompression. 14. Someone with a brain injury might experience: A) Trouble moving. B) Trouble speaking. C) Trouble thinking and/or remembering. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 15. The ..... is the long extension of neuron that allows for sending of action potential A) Neuronal membrane. B) Axon terminal. C) Myelin sheath. D) Axon. E) Dendrite. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Axon. 16. If your voluntary and involuntary muscles both work, but they do not work together, what part of your brain might be damaged? A) Cerebellum. B) Nerves. C) Brain Stem. D) Cerebrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum. 17. Which of the following is NOT a tissue layer of the eye? A) Aqueous humour. B) Retina. C) Sclera. D) Choroid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aqueous humour. 18. Can you push my hand A) Can you bend over?. B) Can you take my hand. C) Can you push my hand away?. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Can you push my hand away?. 19. Carries messages between the peripheral nervous system and the brain: A) Cerebellum. B) Callous body. C) Spinal cord. D) Special thalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord. 20. Purely motor nerve is A) Ophthalmic. B) Abducting. C) Optic. D) Palatine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abducting. 21. Sensory fibers carrying impulses from visceral organs are called ..... sensory fibers. A) Somatic. B) Visceral. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Visceral. 22. Which of these is important in forming and retaining memories and is seahorse-shaped? A) Hippocampus. B) Medulla. C) Hypothalamus. D) Thalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hippocampus. 23. ..... are events or conditions that cause your body to react. A) Structures. B) Programs. C) Entertainment. D) Stimuli. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stimuli. 24. What system is made up of the brain and spinal cord? A) Sensory System. B) Peripheral Nervous System. C) Central Nervous System. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Central Nervous System. 25. ....carry messages from the brain to other parts of the body. A) Mixed nerves. B) Sensory nerves. C) Motor nerves. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motor nerves. 26. Which mixed nerve has sensory fibers associated with the pharynx, tonsils, and carotid arteries, and motor fibers associated with swallowing? A) Facial (VII). B) Trigeminal (B). C) Glossopharyngeal (IX). D) Hypoglossal (XII). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glossopharyngeal (IX). 27. Person is asked to protrude and retract tongue. A) Hypoglossal. B) Olfactory. C) Auditory. D) Facial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypoglossal. 28. Which function of the nervous system is responsible for receiving information about the external environment? A) Response. B) Sensation. C) Controlling the body. D) Integration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sensation. 29. When an action potential travels down an axon, the next segment of the neuron becomes ....., while the previous segment is returning to ..... A) Negative, positive. B) Positive, negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive, negative. 30. How is information carried from the CNS to a muscle or gland? A) Dendrites. B) Central neurons. C) Motor neurons. D) Sensory neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motor neurons. 31. What action describes a response to internal stimuli? A) Catching a ball at a baseball game. B) Drinking when you are thirsty. C) Running at the sight of a wild lion. D) Writing a thank you note. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drinking when you are thirsty. 32. Nerves that control heartbeat and digestion are ..... nerves. A) Large. B) Autonomic. C) Chemical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autonomic. 33. A complex network of nerve fibers in the brainstem that arouses the cerebrum A) Reticular formation. B) Limbic system. C) Diencephalons. D) Plexus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reticular formation. 34. Preganglionic sympathetic axons pass through which of the following structures? A) White rami. B) Ventral primary rami. C) Dorsal primary rami. D) Gray rami. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White rami. 35. Ascending tracts A) Sensory tracts. B) Motor tracts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory tracts. 36. Which part of the brain is responsible for regulating balance and coordination? A) Cerebellum. B) Medulla oblongata. C) Frontal lobe. D) Hypothalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum. 37. The place where the action potential is produced is A) Myelin sheath. B) Axon hillock. C) Nodes of Ranvier. D) Dendrite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axon hillock. 38. What part of the brain controls basic body behaviors? A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum. C) Brain stem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brain stem. 39. Which of the following can be observed in a human whose cerebellum is damaged? A) Cannot walk on a rope. B) Cannot balance the blood pressure. C) Cannot think. D) Cannot comprehend information from sensory organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cannot walk on a rope. 40. The nervous system is our body's ..... A) Command system. B) Protection. C) Structure. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Command system. 41. The types of neurons that transmit information from your body and senses to your brain. A) Sensory Neurons. B) Glial cells. C) Motor Neurons. D) Skin cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory Neurons. 42. This is when the nervous system activates effector organs (muscles and glands) to carry out a response. A) Input. B) Integration. C) Output. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Output. 43. ..... Neurons pick up information and takes it to the brain A) Gland. B) Sensory. C) Axons. D) Neurotransmitters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sensory. 44. Which drug class interacts with many medications requiring a 14 day washout period before trying another treatment. A) Stimulants. B) MAOI. C) SSRI. D) DMARD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) MAOI. 45. Combining form that means brain A) Brain. B) Ish/o. C) Encephal/o. D) Neuro. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Encephal/o. 46. Function of the nervous system A) Maintain acidity. B) Decrease stress. C) Maintain homeostasis. D) Maintain alkalinity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maintain homeostasis. 47. A kid being afraid of the doctors office. A) Instinct. B) Learned Behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learned Behavior. 48. What type of synapse dominates the nervous system? A) Mechanical. B) Electrical. C) Chemical. D) Radioactive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chemical. 49. The sympathetic division A) Increases heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration. B) Stimulates perspiration and release of glucose for energy. C) Stimulates digestion. D) Inhibits heart rate and respiration. E) Both a and b. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increases heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration. 50. Tick all the parts of the peripheral nervous system: A) Brain. B) Spine. C) Spinal cord. D) Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nerves. 51. Specializes in administering anesthesia but is not a physician. A) Anesthesiologist. B) Echoencephalography. C) Electroencephalography. D) Anesthetist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anesthetist. 52. A disease associated with impaired color vision in humans: A) Hypotonia. B) Anemia (anemia). C) Colorblindness. D) Night blindness. E) Diabetes;. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Colorblindness. 53. Which lobe of the brain is responsible for emotion, future planning, judgement, and muscle movements? A) Parietal Lobe. B) Temporal Lobe. C) Occipital Lobe. D) Frontal Lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Frontal Lobe. 54. The parts of the nervous system that process the information and decides what to do: A) Effector. B) Stimulus. C) Receptor. D) Coordination centre/coordinator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coordination centre/coordinator. 55. Internal stimuli is information collected from ..... A) Inside the body. B) Outside the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inside the body. 56. What type of neuroglia help dispose of bacteria? A) Astrocytes. B) Microglia. C) Ependymal cells. D) Oligodendrocytes. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Microglia. 57. Oligodendrocytes are usually found in the myelin sheath of neurons in the PNS. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 58. The basic functional unit of the nervous system is: A) Sarcomere. B) Soma. C) Dendrite. D) Neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neuron. 59. Chemicals that carry messages between neurons are celled A) Synapses. B) Neuroglia. C) Sodium and potassium. D) Neurotransmitter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neurotransmitter. 60. A region of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information A) Temporal lobe. B) Parietal lobe. C) Frontal lobe. D) Occipital lobe. E) Motor neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Occipital lobe. ← 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