This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 64 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 64 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Synapses with an afferent neuron A) Association neuron. B) Sensory receptor. C) Afferent neuron. D) Efferent neuron. E) Effector organ. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Association neuron. 2. Which of the following is considered as a vascular disorder? A) Transient ischemic attack. B) Meningitis. C) Bell's palsy. D) Epidural abscess. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transient ischemic attack. 3. Choose the CORRECT association between brain components and its function A) Cerebellum-control thinking skills. B) Medulla oblongata-control heart rate. C) Midbrain-produce hormone. D) Thalamus-control breathing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medulla oblongata-control heart rate. 4. What sense organ is responsible for our sense of touch? A) Ears. B) Face. C) Nose. D) Skin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skin. 5. If these cells were very active, it would likely indicate an infection in the CNS A) Oligodendrocytes. B) Satellite cells. C) Ependymal. D) Microglia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Microglia. 6. Which part(s) of the eye are responsible for refracting light? A) The lens. B) The cornea. C) The retina. D) The lens and the cornea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The lens and the cornea. 7. What does "multipolar" mean in the context of neuron classification? A) A neuron with two processes extending from the cell body. B) A neuron with more than three processes extending from the cell body. C) A neuron with a single process extending from the cell body. D) A neuron without any processes extending from the cell body. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A neuron with more than three processes extending from the cell body. 8. What are neuroglia? A) Nerve cells. B) Specialized cells that support nerve cells and have many specialized functions. C) Muscle cells. D) Specialized cells that support muscle cells and have many specialized functions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Specialized cells that support nerve cells and have many specialized functions. 9. What are the two parts of the autonomic nervous system? A) Brain and brain stem. B) Voluntary and involuntary. C) Spinal cord and brain stem. D) Sympathetic and parasympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sympathetic and parasympathetic. 10. Which of the following nerves innervates the orbicularis oris muscle of the eye? A) Abducting. B) Facial nerve. C) Oculomotor. D) Trochlear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Facial nerve. 11. Where is the nucleus located? A) Myelin Sheath. B) Dendrites. C) Axon. D) Soma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soma. 12. Found in muscles and tendons to detect changes in body position (muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs) A) Thermoreceptors. B) Baroreceptors. C) Chemoreceptors. D) Proprioceptors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Proprioceptors. 13. White fibrous connective tissue A) Dura mater. B) Arachnoid. C) Pia mater. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dura mater. 14. All of the following are functions of the hypothalamus EXCEPT A) Regulation of hunger. B) Regulation of thirst. C) Regulation of body temperature. D) Regulation of respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regulation of respiration. 15. What does the Prefrontal Cortex control? A) Sense Organs. B) Decision Making / Judgement. C) Muscles & Coordination. D) Learning & Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decision Making / Judgement. 16. This branch of the PNS controls glandular secretions and functioning of smooth and cardiac muscles. it is involuntary. A) Autonomic. B) Sympathetic. C) Parasympathetic. D) Somatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autonomic. 17. Tracts of myelinated fibers in the CNS A) White matter. B) Gray matter. C) Axon. D) Motor neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White matter. 18. What structure helps control involuntary functions? A) Brain Stem. B) Cerebrum. C) Cerebellum. D) Spinal Cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brain Stem. 19. What is the most popular neuron structure? A) Multipolar. B) Unipolar. C) Bipolar. D) Pseudounipolar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multipolar. 20. What type of gland is tear gland? A) ENDOCRINE. B) EXOCRINE. C) HETEROCRINE. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) EXOCRINE. 21. I will tap a hammer on your knee A) I want to check your reflexes. B) I want to light your eyes. C) I'll use the hammer to knock you out. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I'll use the hammer to knock you out. 22. What is used to measure the membrane potential A) EEG. B) Telegraph. C) Voltmeter. D) EKG. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Voltmeter. 23. Which body system carries messages to and from the brain? A) Nervous. B) Circulatory. C) Skeletal. D) Digestive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nervous. 24. What is the dominant sense of humans? A) Smell. B) Taste. C) Hearing. D) Vision. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vision. 25. The visual cortex is located in the A) Temporal lobe. B) Parietal lobe. C) Frontal lobe. D) Occipital lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Occipital lobe. 26. Smell and Taste are closely related because they both use ..... A) Thermoreceptors. B) Proprioceptors. C) Chemoreceptors. D) Photoreceptors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chemoreceptors. 27. Collections of somas (cell bodies) inside the central nervous system are called ..... A) Tracts. B) Ganglia. C) Nuclei. D) Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nuclei. 28. Which Cranial Nerve is called the Vagus Nerve? A) IX. B) VIII. C) VII. D) X. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) X. 29. This is the term used to describe the normal range of a variable in an organism A) Stimulus. B) Effector. C) Set point. D) Control center. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Set point. 30. Which hormone regulates the body's metabolism? A) Thyroxine. B) Estrogen. C) Insulin. D) Testosterone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thyroxine. 31. Imagine Anika, Scarlett, and Abigail are in a science class learning about neurons. They come across a 'Motor neuron'. Can you help them understand what it does? A) It picks up stimuli from the internal or external environment and converts each stimulus into nerve impulse. B) It sends an impulse in a muscle or gland, and it reacts in response. C) It carries nerve impulse from one neuron to another. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It sends an impulse in a muscle or gland, and it reacts in response. 32. They receive information from receptors and are the central processing part of the sensory system: A) Areas of cortex. B) Centripetal nerves. C) Analyzer. D) Centrifugal nerves. E) Receptors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Areas of cortex. 33. Nervous system function that causes a target tissue (muscle or gland) to produce an event as a consequence to stimuli. A) Myelin. B) Response. C) Thermoreceptor. D) Axon Terminal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Response. 34. When sodium moves in the cell, will the cell be polarized or depolarized? A) Polarized. B) Depolarized. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Depolarized. 35. Which part of the brain controls involuntary functions such as heartbeat? A) Brain stem. B) Cerebrum. C) Temporal lobe. D) Cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brain stem. 36. Sequence of eye covering (outer to inner) is ..... A) Retina, Sclera, Chorid. B) Sclera, Choroid, Retina. C) Retina, Choroid, Sclera. D) Sclera, Retina, Choroid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sclera, Choroid, Retina. 37. The basic workings of the nervous system depend a lot on tiny cells called neurons. A) T. B) F. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) T. 38. Which system includes all parts of the nervous system EXCEPT the brain and spinal cord? A) Somatic nervous system. B) CNS. C) PNS. D) Autonomic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) PNS. 39. Where do dendrites carry impulses? A) Across synapse from one neuron to another. B) Towards the cell body of the neuron. C) To the spinal cord. D) Away from the cell body of the neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Towards the cell body of the neuron. 40. The ..... are the cells of the nervous system. A) Soma. B) Terminal. C) Axon. D) Neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neuron. 41. An automatic response to a stimulus that you don't have to think about is called a ..... A) The Flash response. B) Blink response. C) Reflex. D) Rapid fire response. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reflex. 42. Controls reason, emotion, and voluntary movements. A) Frontal Lobe. B) Brainstem. C) Hippocampus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frontal Lobe. 43. The outer layer of the cerebrum A) Arachnoid mater. B) Cerebral hemispheres. C) Cerebral cortex. D) Pia mater. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebral cortex. 44. Synapse occure through ..... A) Mechanical impulses. B) Physical impulses. C) Electrical impulses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Electrical impulses. 45. Tissues are made of ..... A) Blood. B) Systems. C) Cells. D) Organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cells. 46. ..... nerves carry the brain's output A) Sensory. B) Motor. C) Neurons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motor. 47. The neurotransmitter ..... influences emotion, attention, and euphoria. A) Norepinephrine. B) Serotonin. C) Dopamine. D) Epinephrine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dopamine. 48. Which cell relays impulses from one neuron to another? A) Interneuron. B) Tissue. C) Sensory Neuron. D) Motor Neuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interneuron. 49. Share bipolar neurons A) Rods. B) Photorecepters. C) Phototransduction. D) Cones. E) Bipolar Neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rods. 50. Where two neurons or a neuron and an effector can communicate via neurotransmitter A) Nodes of Ranvier. B) Myelin sheath. C) Conclusion. D) Axon hillock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conclusion. 51. ..... supplies impulses to the upper part of the face. A) Cervical nerve. B) Maxillary nerve. C) Mandibular nerve. D) Ophthalmic nerve. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maxillary nerve. 52. What is the pons part of the brain? A) E. B) B. C) C. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) E. 53. What is the English Meaning of the Medical Term Phasia [ PHASIA ]? A) Numbness, Sleep. B) Speech. C) Movement. D) Order, Condition. E) Thin, Slender. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speech. 54. The message travels along the axon as an electrical impulse A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 55. What are the three parts of a neuron? A) Dendrite, Synapse, Myelin. B) Cell Body, Synapse, Nucleus. C) Axon, Myelin, Receptor. D) Dendrite, Axon, Cell Body. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dendrite, Axon, Cell Body. 56. Rest and digest is associated with A) Somatic nervous system. B) Afferent division of the PNS. C) Parasympathetic nervous system. D) Sympathetic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasympathetic nervous system. 57. In motor output, the nervous system ..... muscles and glands A) Stimulates. B) Inhibits. C) Both answers are correct. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both answers are correct. 58. These nerves are responsible for movement/reacting to stimuli A) Motor nerves. B) Sensory nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motor nerves. 59. Sweating is promoted in anticipating of excess heat production during parasympathetic A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 60. Where do the impulses from sound travel to A) Brain detergent. B) Brain cell. C) Brain via. D) Brain column. 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