This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System β Quiz 304 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 304 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The part of the hindbrain that is responsible for balance is the A) Medulla. B) Pons. C) Primary motor cortex. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cerebellum. 2. This is used for horizontal movement of the head, as in acceleration in a car. A) Utricle. B) Bags. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Utricle. 3. Which of the following is a functional disorder? A) Epilepsy. B) Cervical spondylosis. C) Peripheral neuropathy. D) Guillain-BarrΓ© syndrome. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epilepsy. 4. The FRONTAL LOBE is helpful for COORDINATION and BALANCE. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. In the central nervous system myelinatedfibres form the white matter. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 6. Which of the two systems is responsible for bringing your system levels to normal? A) Sympathetic Nervous System. B) Parasympathetic Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic Nervous System. 7. ..... separates the cerebrum into left and right hemispheres. A) Postcentral gyrus. B) Central sulcus. C) Longitudinal fissure. D) Anterior median sulcus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Longitudinal fissure. 8. The neurotransmitter that is directly involved with the reward pathway is A) Norepinephrine. B) Dopamine. C) Serotonin. D) Acetylcholine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dopamine. 9. Which of the following is the correct order (pathway for pain)? A) Unipolar neuron-spinal cord-medulla oblongata-pons-midbrain-thalamus-parietal lobe. B) Unipolar neuron-spinal cord-medulla oblongata-midbrain-pons-thalamus-parietal lobe. C) Unipolar neuron-medulla oblongata-spinal cord-pons-midbrain-thalamus-parietal lobe. D) Unipolar neuron-spinal cord-medulla oblongata-pons-midbrain-hypothalamus-parietal lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unipolar neuron-spinal cord-medulla oblongata-pons-midbrain-thalamus-parietal lobe. 10. Which part of the body is responsible for processing electrochemical signals? A) Spine. B) Conclusion. C) Brain. D) Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brain. 11. Saltatory conduction is A) Depolarization process at the nodes of Ranvier. B) The propagation of action potentials along myelinated axons from one node of Ranvier to the next node. C) Restoration of resting membrane potential. D) Polarization process at the nodes of Ranvier. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The propagation of action potentials along myelinated axons from one node of Ranvier to the next node. 12. What does the temporal lobe do and interpret? A) Visual Information. B) Speech interpretation and hearing. Plays small role in memory. C) Sense of touch. D) Personality, reasoning, judgement, voluntary movement, and speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speech interpretation and hearing. Plays small role in memory. 13. Which part of the brain is known as the language comprehension center? A) Wernicke's. B) Broca's. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wernicke's. 14. #9, Carries visual information to the brain. A) Cornea. B) Retina. C) Optic nerve. D) Pupil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Optic nerve. 15. Nervous system is the most important system in the body A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 16. Levdopa treats Parkinson's by A) Enabling movement. B) Mimicking the effect of dopamine. C) Enabling speech. D) Repairing cells in the substantia nigra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mimicking the effect of dopamine. 17. Which part of the brain do you use to direct incoming signals to the appropriate part of the cerebellum? A) Medulla oblongata. B) Midbrain. C) Pons. D) Thalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thalamus. 18. Sound receptors are present in the ..... A) Ear. B) Nose. C) Eye. D) Skin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ear. 19. Chemical-electrical signals travel down neurons much like A) Water gushes over a waterfall. B) A snake slithers through the grass. C) A flame travels along the fuse of a firecracker. D) A helium-filled balloon rises in the sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A flame travels along the fuse of a firecracker. 20. After looking up a phone number, Jim calls it, then forgets. The number was stored in his A) Visual Memory. B) Long Term Memory. C) Short-Term Memory. D) Echoic Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Short-Term Memory. 21. This part of the neuron receives electrical impulses from other neurons. A) Axon. B) Dendrite. C) Nucleus. D) Myelin sheath. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dendrite. 22. Signals move through the central and peripheral nervous systems with the help of ..... cells. A) Glial. B) Axon terminal. C) Dendrites. D) Axon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Glial. 23. We don't feel pain when growing hair and nails are cut as they don't have ..... A) Muscular cells. B) Skin cells. C) Nerve cells. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nerve cells. 24. Which part of the brain stem is the lowest and controls heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing? A) Pons. B) Midbrain. C) Spinal cord elongated. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord elongated. 25. The cranial number of the optic nerve? A) I. B) II. C) IV. D) VIII. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) II. 26. A condition caused by sudden movement of the brain, where the brain hits the skull is called A) Brain Injury. B) Nervous System disease. C) Headache. D) Concussion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Concussion. 27. We have two types of nerves between our spinal cord and the outside of our body ..... A) Motor and peripheral. B) Peripheral and sensory. C) Sensory and motor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory and motor. 28. The region in the eye where the rods and cones are located is the A) Choroid. B) Sclera. C) Cornea. D) Retina. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Retina. 29. Which of these is NOT part of a neuron? A) Cell body. B) Neurotransmitters. C) Dendrites. D) Axon terminals. E) Axon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neurotransmitters. 30. Which term matches the following definition. Definition:A nerve cell, the basic unit of the nervous system that transfers information around the body. A) Immune System. B) Homeostasis. C) Neurons. D) Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neurons. 31. Sensory Neurons are the nerve cells that: A) Sense inputs, like taste, touch, smell, sounds, and sights. B) Respond to outputs. C) Trigger muscle cells to respond. D) Are in your brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sense inputs, like taste, touch, smell, sounds, and sights. 32. Each of the series of small bones forming the backbone, having several projections for articulation and muscle attachment, and a hole through which the spinal cord passes. A) Spinal Cord. B) Axon. C) Conclusion. D) Vertebra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vertebra. 33. The most common neuroglia found in the body are microglia. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 34. Contains blood vessels that nourish the eye A) Aqueous humor. B) Vitreous humor. C) Choroid. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Choroid. 35. Functions as natural analgesics, decreasing pain perception A) Endorphins. B) Adaptation. C) Aspartate. D) Photo receptors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Endorphins. 36. A neuron that carries information from the peripheral nervous system to the central nervous system is A) Afferent neuron. B) Efferent neuron. C) Both. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Afferent neuron. 37. Damage to the upper motor neurons in the central nervous system can result in which type of gait pattern? A) Spastic gait. B) Trendelenburg gait. C) Gait to the steppe. D) The horse walks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spastic gait. 38. Why is the sensation of thirst important to maintaining homeostasis? A) Water removed by the kidneys must be replaced. B) Oxygen cannot diffuse into cells if a person is dehydrated. C) Water molecules are needed to carry carbon dioxide waste to the kidneys. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water removed by the kidneys must be replaced. 39. What type of neuron processes messages and determines where to send them in your brain. A) Motor Neurons. B) Interneurons. C) Sensory Neurons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interneurons. 40. The tough, outer membrane that surrounds the brain is called the A) Dura mater. B) Pia mater. C) Arachnoid membrane. D) Subarachnoid space. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dura mater. 41. Carry messages from the sense organs to the spinal cord A) Sensory nerves. B) All. C) Nothing. D) Motor nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory nerves. 42. The following tract carries movement-related information from the brain to the spinal cord: A) The DCML. B) The spino-cerebellar tract. C) The cortico-spinal tract. D) Lateral spino-thalamic tract. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cortico-spinal tract. 43. Which part of the eye gives the eye its color? A) Pupil. B) Retina. C) Cornea. D) Iris. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iris. 44. The sensory neurons go to ..... which then go to the motor neurons A) Sympathetic nervous system. B) Interneurons. C) Parasympathetic nervous system. D) Somatic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interneurons. 45. The chemicals that are used by neurons to transmit messages A) Nerve. B) Dendrite. C) Conclusion. D) Neurotransmitters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neurotransmitters. 46. What are the "wire" like structures that carry the nerve impulse to and from the brain? A) Nerves. B) Spinal cord. C) Brain. D) Sensory organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nerves. 47. Different parts of the cerebrum move different body parts. A) F. B) T. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T. 48. Which glial cell forms the blood/brain barrier? A) Oligodendrocyte. B) Schwann Cells. C) Astrocyte. D) Microglia. E) Ependymal Cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Astrocyte. 49. A long, thin nerve fiber that transmits signals to other cells, which may be neurons or effector cells. A) Astrocyte. B) Anterior Horn. C) Afferent. D) Axon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Axon. 50. The three main parts of our brain are A) Cerebrum. B) Cerebellum. C) Medulla. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 51. Nurse Jen has finished assessing the patient using the Glasgow Coma Scale and the result was GCS of 15. What does this score interpret? A) The patient is alert and completely oriented. B) The patient is comatose. C) The patient is unresponsive. D) The patient's LOC is impaired. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The patient is alert and completely oriented. 52. What does the spinal cord connect? A) Interneurons and motor neurons. B) The brain and the eyes. C) Sensory neurons and motor neurons. D) The brain and the peripheral nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The brain and the peripheral nervous system. 53. What is the purpose of the peripheral nervous system? A) Communication system between CNS and the rest of the body. B) Overseeing communication among organ systems. C) Producing hormones. D) Regulating body temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Communication system between CNS and the rest of the body. 54. Meaning shaken together A) Contus/o. B) Concuss/o. C) The root. D) Encephal/o. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Concuss/o. 55. Which is true of Schwann cells? A) Help form the myelin sheath. B) Send sensory information to brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Help form the myelin sheath. 56. Sensory nerves are best referred to as A) Neurons. B) Glial cells. C) Afferent nerves. D) Efferent nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Afferent nerves. 57. What does the peripheral nervous system contain? A) Bundles of neurons carry impulses from all parts of the body. B) All nerves that are not part of the central nervous system. C) It recognizes hunger, thirst, fatigue, anger and controls body temperature. D) Blood pressure, heart rate, breathing, and swallowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All nerves that are not part of the central nervous system. 58. What is the main communications link between the brain and the rest of the body? A) The cerebrum. B) The brain stem. C) The spinal cord. D) The thalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The spinal cord. 59. Which part of the autonomic nervous system is responsible for fight or flight use in emergency situations A) Adrenal. B) Parasympathtic. C) Somatic. D) Sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sympathetic. 60. Carries impulses toward the cell A) Neuron. B) Axon. C) Dendrite. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dendrite. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books