This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 571 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 571 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Membrane of the dendrite or effector cell A) Hyperpolarized. B) Presynaptic terminal. C) Postsynaptic membrane. D) Neurotransmitters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Postsynaptic membrane. 2. Which neuroglia cell does not belong in the CNS? A) Satellite cells. B) Astrocytes. C) Microglial cell. D) Ependymal cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satellite cells. 3. 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. 4. The cells that send and receive signals A) Neurons. B) Protons. C) Neutrons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neurons. 5. 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. 6. The motor function is divided into two categories. Which transmits voluntary instructions to muscles? A) Somatic. B) Autonomic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Somatic. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. Which branch of the nervous system is directly responsible for controlling your heart rate, breathing rate and digestive system? A) Central nervous system. B) Somatic nervous system. C) Autonomic nervous system. D) Parasympathetic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autonomic nervous system. 10. 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. 11. What is the space inside the iris called? A) Pupil. B) Ciliary body. C) Lens. D) Choroid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pupil. 12. 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. 13. What part of the neuron is myelinated? A) Cell Body. B) Axon. C) Conclusion. D) Dendrite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axon. 14. What is the longest bone in a human? A) Humerur. B) Stirrup. C) Femur. D) Backbone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Femur. 15. As an impulse enters a nerve cell, describe the way it travels through this nerve cell. A) Cell body $\rightarrow$ axon $\rightarrow$ dendrite. B) Cell body $\rightarrow$ dendrite $\rightarrow$ axon. C) Dendrite $\rightarrow$ axon $\rightarrow$ axon. D) Dendrite $\rightarrow$ cell body $\rightarrow$ axon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dendrite $\rightarrow$ cell body $\rightarrow$ axon. 16. 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) Joint. B) Ligament. C) Socket. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tendon. 17. Neurotransmitter destroyed by A) Enzymes. B) Amino acids. C) Hydrogen carboxyl complex. D) Nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enzymes. 18. 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. 19. What is any quick response to stimuli that skips the brain? A) Voluntary action. B) Knee jerk. C) Reflex. D) Blink. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reflex. 20. Which of the following acts as a relay center for somatesthetic sensation? A) The thalamus. B) The hypothalamus. C) The red nucleus. D) The cerebellum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The thalamus. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesNervous System Quiz 1Nervous System Quiz 2Nervous System Quiz 3Nervous System Quiz 4Nervous System Quiz 5Nervous System Quiz 6Nervous System Quiz 7Nervous System Quiz 8Nervous System Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books