Nervous System Quiz 999 (20 MCQs)

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1. Encloses the shallow third ventricle of the brain, is a relay station for sensory impulses passing upward to the sensory cortex.

Correct Answer: B) Thalamus.

2. Subdural hematoma

Correct Answer: A) Pertaining to below the dura mater.

3. What is the medulla responsible for

Correct Answer: C) Heartbeat, breathing.

4. The term cardiac arrest refers to

Correct Answer: D) The cessation of all cardiac activity.

5. The basic building block of the nervous system, responsible for transmitting information

Correct Answer: D) Neuron.

6. Which one is not a part of nervous system?

Correct Answer: A) Heart.

7. This structure of the brain is made up of the pons, midbrain and medulla oblongata

Correct Answer: C) Brain Stem.

8. Check all that apply about the Peripheral Nervous System?

Correct Answer: A) The PNS is everything else outside the brain and spinal cord.

9. When one neuron sends messages to more than one other neuron

Correct Answer: C) Divergence.

10. Fibers that receive and convey message to the cell body of a neuron

Correct Answer: A) Dendrites.

11. Which part of the peripheral nervous system controls activity in a conscious state?

Correct Answer: B) Somatic.

12. Which is the correct order in which sound waves flow through the ear?

Correct Answer: A) Auricle, auditory canal, tympanic membrane, ossicles, cochlea.

13. Which neurotransmitter has an excitatory effect on its target cell?

Correct Answer: B) Adrenaline.

14. Hemisphere that is associated with logical abilities

Correct Answer: A) Left Hemisphere.

15. As messages from the cortex travel through the brain, they create pathways that serve as the basis of memory.

Correct Answer: A) T.

16. The type of neuron which transports impulses TOWARDS the CNS

Correct Answer: B) Sensory neuron.

17. These cells make up the myelin sheath of neurons found within the PNS

Correct Answer: C) Schwann cells.

18. Transmits impulses from afferent neurons to efferent neurons. Lie completely within the CNS.

Correct Answer: A) Interneurons.

19. Which part of the PNS controls the voluntary responses?

Correct Answer: A) Somatic nervous system.

20. A ..... is an automatic, involuntary response to some change either inside or outside of the body

Correct Answer: B) Reflex.