This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Biology > Nervous System – Quiz 96 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nervous System Quiz 96 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The end of the axon terminates in a number of branches called A) Branches. B) Terminal Branches. C) Axon. D) Cyton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Terminal Branches. 2. Found in the walls of hollow organs; also called visceral A) Smooth. B) Cardiac. C) Skeletal. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smooth. 3. The PNS consists of what? A) Cranial and spinal nerves. B) Brain and spinal cord. C) Brain and csf. D) Cranial nerves and brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cranial and spinal nerves. 4. What does choroid plexus form? A) Cerebrospinal fluid. B) Cerebellum spinal fluid. C) Cerebrospinal fluid. D) Cerebrospinal fluid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebrospinal fluid. 5. Subthreshold stimulation of a neuron that increases responsiveness to further stimulation A) Facilitation. B) Action potential. C) Divergence. D) Convergence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Facilitation. 6. What are messages sent through the nervous system? A) Impulses. B) Neurons. C) Dendrites. D) Transmissions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Impulses. 7. What are the nerves of the body called? A) The central nervous system. B) The peripheral nervous system. C) The autonomic nervous system. D) The somatic nervous system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The peripheral nervous system. 8. Your Body's way of protecting itself A) Pain. B) Fight. C) Nerves. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pain. 9. Regarding meningitis: A) E. coli is the commonest cause of bacterial meningitis in adults. B) The majority of cases is caused by virus. C) In laboratory diagnosis, blood culture is mandatory to perform. D) In majority of cases in adults, the causative organism spread through blood. E) In small children, irritability is a presenting feature. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) In small children, irritability is a presenting feature. 10. Which part of the Nervous System is responsible for receiving information from the external environment? A) Central Nervous System. B) Periphrial Nervous System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periphrial Nervous System. 11. What are the two divisions of the motor nervous system? A) Brain/spinal cord. B) Sympathetic/parasympathetic. C) Autonomic/somatic. D) Central/peripheral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autonomic/somatic. 12. My body has got a nervous system A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. In the lungs, blood receives ..... and releases ..... A) Carbon monoxide/oxygen. B) Carbon dioxide/oxygen. C) Oxygen/carbon dioxide. D) Oxygen/carbon monoxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxygen/carbon dioxide. 14. The direction for a nerve impulse is always: A) Cell body-dendrites-axon. B) Dendrites-cell body-axon. C) Dendrites-myelin-axon. D) Axon-cell body-dendrites. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dendrites-cell body-axon. 15. Which of the following terms indicates a nerve impulse has been initiated and is being transmitted? A) Graded Potential. B) Action Potential. C) Repolarization. D) Depolarization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Action Potential. 16. Which disease is diagnosed in 20-40 year olds? A) Multiple Sclerosis. B) Meningitis. C) Bell's Palsy. D) IF. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multiple Sclerosis. 17. The specialized sensory receptor that detects light is A) Mechanoreceptor. B) Chemoreceptor. C) Thermoreceptor. D) Photoreceptor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Photoreceptor. 18. What are the three (3) main parts of the nervous system? A) Pink, purple, maroon. B) Rain, sun, earth. C) Brain, spinal cord, nerves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brain, spinal cord, nerves. 19. Which type of neuron sends information from the brain to the tissues nad organs in the body? A) Motor neuron. B) Sensory neuron. C) Interneuron. D) Axoneuron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motor neuron. 20. What is the purpose of cerebrospinal fluid? A) Acts as shock absorber to protect brain. B) Carries nutrients to some areas of brain & spinal cord. C) Helps remove wastes. D) All responses are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All responses are correct. ← 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