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1.When using a compound microscope, 6.On a microscope, what structure

objective lenses can be found to have a connects the eyepiece to the objective
magnification of all of the following, lens?
EXCEPT?
a. Base
a. 4X b. Nosepiece
b. 10X c. Stage
c. 40X d. Tube
d. 100X e. Diaphragm
e. 1000X
Answer: e Answer: d
2. What is "compound microscope"? 7.In a good compound microscope, the

focus knob does not have to be readjusted
a. Microscope with the capability to view
oil immersion when changing the magnification. What is
b. Microscope with the capability to view this phenomenon called?
compounds
c. Microscope with a single lens a. Parfocal
d. Microscope with two lenses b. Unifocal
e. Microscope with three lenses c. Bifocal
Answer: d d. Focused
e. Convergent
3.What is the total magnification Answer: a
achieved with a compound microscope?
8.What is another name for the light
a. Magnification of objective lens microscope?
b. Magnification of ocular lens
c. Magnification of ocular lens added to a. Simple microscope
the magnification of the objective lens b. Compound microscope
d. Magnification of ocular lens c. Phase contrast microscope
multiplied by the magnification of the d. Dissection microscope
objective lens e. Transmission electron microscope
e. Magnification of condenser lens Answer: b
multiplied by the magnification of the
objective lens 9.Which microscope does not rely on
visible light?
a. Simple microscope
Answer: d b. Compound microscope
c. Phase contrast microscope
4.What is the maximum resolving power d. Dissection microscope
seen with a compound microscope? e. Transmission electron microscope
Answer: e
a. 2 millimeters
b. .2 millimeters 10.Which microscope makes things appear
c. 2 micrometers three dimensional?
d. .2 micrometers
e. 2 angstroms a. Simple microscope
b. Compound microscope
Answer: d c. Phase contrast microscope
d. Dissection microscope
5.What is the turret? e. Transmission electron microscope
Answer: d
a. Base
b. Nosepiece
c. Stage
d. Tube
e. Diaphragm
Answer: b
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1.When using a compound microscope, what 6.Where do you place the slide when using
is the magnification of the oil immersion a microscope?
lens?
a. Base
a. 4X b. Nosepiece
b. 10X c. Stage
c. 40X d. Tube
e. 1000X
Answer: c
Answer: d
7.What is the bottom of a microscope
2.What is the usual magnification of the called?
ocular lens on a compound microscope?
a. Base
a. 1X b. Nosepiece
b. 10X c. Stage
c. 100X d. Tube
e. 10,000 X
Answer: a
Answer: b
8.What is another name for the bright
3. When using oil immersion to view a field microscope?
tissue, what is the refractive index of
the oil? a. Simple microscope
b. Compound microscope
a. Zero c. Phase contrast microscope
b. Same as air d. Dissection microscope
c. Same as glass e. Transmission electron microscope
d. Same as water
e. None of the above Answer: b
Answer: c 9.Which microscope would be particularly

useful for looking at living cells?
4.What is the role of the condenser lens?
a. Control the aperture of light b. Compound microscope
b. Increase the magnification c. Phase contrast microscope
c. Focus the light on the specimen d. Dissection microscope
d. Initial magnification of 10X e. Transmission electron microscope
e. Provide light
Answer: c
Answer: c
10.Which type of microscope has only one
5.On a microscope, what structure varies lens?
the diameter of the cone of light?
a. Base b. Compound microscope
b. Nosepiece c. Phase contrast microscope
c. Stage d. Dissection microscope
d. Tube e. Transmission electron microscope
e. Diaphragm
Answer: a
Answer: e
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1.Which of the following stain blue with 6.During the preparation of a routine H&E
H&E stain? slide, what step occurs after the tissue
is preserved?
a. Cytoplasm
b. Collagen fibers a. Fixation
c. Nucleus b. Embedding in paraffin
d. Elastic fibers c. Staining
e. Decalcified bone matrix d. Slicing
e. Dehydration
Answer: c Answer: e
7.During the preparation of a routine H&E

slide, how is the tissue preserved?
2. What are Sudan stains used primarily
for? a. Fixation
b. Embedding in paraffin
a. Blood c. Staining
b. Fat d. Slicing
c. Nervous tissue e. Dehydration
d. Elastic fibers
e. Decalcified bone matrix
Answer: a
Answer: b 8.During the preparation of a routine H&E

slide, what allows the tissue to be
3.What is Mucicarmine stain used
visualized?
primarily for?
a. Fixation
a. Blood b. Embedding in paraffin
b. Fat c. Staining
c. Nervous tissue d. Slicing
d. Elastic fibers e. Dehydration
e. Epithelial mucin Answer: c
Answer: e 9. Which of the following would be best

suited to visualize reticular fibers?
4.What is Wright's stain used primarily
for? a. Wright's stain
b. Hematoxylin and eosin stain
a. Blood c. Sudan stain
b. Fat d. Silver impregnation
c. Nervous tissue e. Masson's trichrome stain
d. Elastic fibers
e. Decalcified bone matrix
Answer: d
Answer: a
10. Which of the following would be best
5.What color do elastic fibers stain with suited to visualize lipid?
Verhoeff Elastic stain?
a. Wright's stain
a. Red/Orange b. Hematoxylin and eosin stain
b. Pink/red c. Sudan stain
c. Purple/Red d. Silver impregnation
d. Blue/black e. Masson's trichrome stain
e. Green/blue
Answer: c
Answer: d
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1.During the preparation of a routine H&E 6.Which of the following stains is used
slide, what allows the tissue to hold its for routine histological examination?
form?
a. Wright's stain
a. Fixation b. Hematoxylin and eosin stain
b. Embedding in paraffin c. Sudan stain
c. Staining d. Silver impregnation
d. Slicing e. Masson's trichrome stain
e. Dehydration
Answer: b Answer: b
2.During the preparation of a routine H&E 7.What is Prussian blue stain used for?
slide, what step occurs after the tissue
is embedded in paraffin? a. Sodium
b. Potassium
a. Fixation c. Calcium
b. Rehydration d. Copper
c. Staining e. Iron
d. Slicing
e. Dehydration Answer: e
8.What color does hematoxylin stain

Answer: d structures?
3.During the preparation of a routine H&E a. Orange

slide, what step occurs after the tissue b. Blue
is stained? c. Pink
d. Red
a. Fixation e. Green
b. Embedding in paraffin
c. Staining
d. Slicing Answer: b
e. Dehydration
9.Which of the following would be best
suited to differentiate collagen fibers
Answer: e
from other fibers ?
4.Which of the following is an acid dye?
a. Wright's stain
a. Azure II b. Hematoxylin and eosin stain
b. Toluidine blue c. Sudan stain
c. Methylene blue d. Silver impregnation
d. Eosin e. Masson's trichrome stain
e. Thionine
Answer: d Answer: e
1.Which of the following is NOT a

5.Which of the following would be best
suited for peripheral blood smears? membranous organelle?
a. Wright's stain a. Lysosomes

b. Hematoxylin and eosin stain b. Peroxisomes
c. Sudan stain c. Mitochondria
d. Silver impregnation d. Ribosomes
e. Masson's trichrome stain e. Endoplasmic reticulum
Answer: a Answer: d
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2.Which organelle contains digestive 7.How thick is the plasma membrane?

enzymes?
a. 8-10 angstroms
a. Rough endoplasmic reticulum b. 8-10 nanometers
b. Smooth endoplasmic reticulum c. 8-10 micrometers
c. Lysosome d. 8-10 millimeters
d. Golgi apparatus e. None of the above
e. Mitochondria
Answer: b
Answer: c
8.What is the term for the general
3.Which organelle is considered the process that cells us to expunge material
powerhouse of the cell? from the cell?
a. Rough endoplasmic reticulum a. Endocytosis

b. Smooth endoplasmic reticulum b. Exocytosis
c. Lysosome c. Pinocytosis
d. Golgi apparatus d. Phagocytosis
e. Mitochondria e. Active transport
Answer: e Answer: b
4.What structure is at the base of cilia? 9. Which organelle sorts and packages
proteins within a cell?
a. Ribosomes
b. Peroxisome a. Rough endoplasmic reticulum
c. Microfilaments b. Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
d. Centrioles c. Lysosome
e. Nucleoli d. Golgi apparatus
e. Mitochondria
Answer: d
Answer: d
5.Which of the following is NOT
considered an inclusion? 10.Which of the following is NOT a
membranous organelle?
a. Pigment
b. Glycogen a. Lysosomes
c. Lipid b. Filaments
d. Secretory granules c. Peroxisomes
e. Mitochondria d. Mitochondria
e. Endoplasmic reticulum
Answer: e
6.Collectively, what is the cytoplasm and Answer: b

nucleus called?
a. Plasmalemma
b. Glycocalyx
c. Protoplasm
d. Cristae
e. Ground substance
Answer: c
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1.What are the folds on the inner 6.What is also called a low resistance
mitochodrial membrane called? junction?
a. Plasmalemma a. Tight junction

b. Glycocalyx b. Gap junction
c. Protoplasm c. Junctional epithelium
d. Cristae d. Junctional complex
e. Ground substance e. None of the above
Answer: d Answer: b
2.Which organelle is involved in lipid 7.Which of the following is an organelle?

metabolism?
a. Pigment
a. Rough endoplasmic reticulum b. Glycogen
b. Smooth endoplasmic reticulum c. Lipid
c. Lysosome d. Secretory granules
d. Golgi apparatus e. Mitochondria
e. Mitochondria
Answer: e
Answer: b
8.What is the term for the general
3.Which organelle contains detoxifying process that cells us to bring things
enzymes? into the cell?
a. Endocytosis
a. Ribosomes b. Exocytosis
b. Peroxisome c. Pinocytosis
c. Microfilaments d. Phagocytosis
d. Centrioles e. Active transport
e. Nucleoli
Answer: b Answer: a
4.Which of the following is NOT a 9.Which organelle produces protein for

membranous organelle? export?
a. Microtubules a. Rough endoplasmic reticulum

b. Lysosomes b. Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
c. Peroxisomes c. Lysosome
d. Mitochondria d. Golgi apparatus
e. Endoplasmic reticulum e. Mitochondria
Answer: a
Answer: a
5.What is the limiting membrane of a 10.Where are ribosomes constructed?

cell?
a. Cytoskeleton
a. Plasmalemma b. Peroxisome
b. Glycocalyx c. Microfilaments
c. Protoplasm d. Centrioles
d. Cristae e. Nucleoli
e. Ground substance
Answer: e
Answer: a
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1.What is the term for the process used 4.Which of the following is NOT a
by cells for the transport in of membranous organelle?
particulate matter?
a. Lysosomes
a. Endocytosis b. Peroxisomes
b. Exocytosis c. Centrioles
c. Pinocytosis d. Mitochondria
d. Phagocytosis e. Endoplasmic reticulum
e. Active transport
Answer: d Answer: c
2.What is another term for the cytoplasm 5.What is the polysaccharide coating that
outside of organelles? is sometimes found on the cell membrane?
a. Plasmalemma a. Plasmalemma
b. Glycocalyx b. Glycocalyx
c. Protoplasm c. Protoplasm
d. Cristae d. Cristae
e. Ground substance e. Ground substance
Answer: e Answer: b
3.What is the a small clear space within 6.What process is nicknamed "cell
a cell? drinking"?
a. Space of Disse a. Endocytosis

b. Space of Mall b. Exocytosis
c. Vacuole c. Pinocytosis
d. Lacuna d. Phagocytosis
e. Howship's lacuna e. Active transport
Answer: c
Answer: c
The space of Disse is in the liver. The 7.Which organelle is studded with
space of Disse is also called the ribosomes?
perisinusoidal space. It is the space
a. Rough endoplasmic reticulum
between the liver sinusoids and the
b. Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
hepatocytes.
c. Lysosome
The space of Mall is also in the liver.
d. Golgi apparatus
e. Mitochondria
It is the site where lymph is formed
within the liver.
Answer: a
A vacuole is a small clear space within
an individual cell. 8.Where is the site of protein synthesis?
A lacuna is a small space or depression. a. Ribosomes

The space that the chondrocyte rests in b. Peroxisome
is a lacuna. c. Microfilaments
d. Centrioles
Howship's lacuna is seen in bone. e. Nucleoli
Howship's lacuna is a space seen
underneath an osteoclast.
Answer: a
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9.What structure contributes to the cells 5.What do you call the simple squamous
cytoskeleton? epithelium that lines the blood vessels?
a. Ribosomes a. Epithelioid tissue

b. Peroxisome b. Mesothelium
c. Microfilaments c. Endothelium
d. Centrioles d. Transitional
e. Nucleoli e. Pseudostratified
Answer: c
Answer: c
6.What cell type makes up the mucosa of
1.What type of tissue lines the bladder? the gallbladder?
a. Simple squamous epithelium a. Simple squamous epithelium

b. Simple cuboidal epithelium b. Simple cuboidal epithelium
c. Simple columnar epithelium c. Simple columnar epithelium
d. Stratified squamous epithelium d. Stratified squamous epithelium
e. Transitional epithelium e. Transitional epithelium
Answer: c
Answer: e
7.Which of the following is lined by a
2.What type of tissue lines most ducts? serosa?
a. Simple squamous epithelium a. Genitourinary tract
b. Simple cuboidal epithelium b. Peritoneal cavity
c. Simple columnar epithelium c. Respiratory tract
d. Stratified squamous epithelium d. Alimentary canal
e. Transitional epithelium e. All of the above are lined by a
mucosa
Answer: b
Answer: b
3.What type of epithelium is associated
8.What type of gland secretes its product
with goblet cells?
through a duct or tube?
a. Simple squamous epithelium
a. Endocrine gland
b. Simple cuboidal epithelium
b. Multicellular gland
c. Simple columnar epithelium
c. Exocrine gland
d. Stratified squamous epithelium
d. All of the above
e. Pseudostratified epithelium
e. None of the above
Answer: c
Answer: c
4.What type of epithelial cells are as
9.What is a gland called if the secretory
tall as they are wide?
portion is flask shaped?
a. Simple
a. Simple gland
b. Stratified
b. Compound gland
c. Squamous
c. Tubular
d. Cuboidal
d. Alveolar
e. Columnar
e. Tubuloalveolar
Answer: d
Answer: d
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10.What forms the brush border?
a. Microvilli 5.What type of epithelium appears

b. Stereocilia stratified, but is not?
c. Cilia
d. Keratinization a. Epithelioid tissue
e. Both a and b b. Mesothelium
c. Endothelium
Answer: a d. Transitional
e. Pseudostratified
1.What type of epithelium lines the
trachea?
Answer: e
d. Stratified squamous epithelium 6.Which of the following is lined by a
e. Pseudostratified epithelium mucosa?
Answer: e a. Peritoneal cavity

b. Pericardial cavity
2.What type of tissue lines blood c. Pleural cavity
vessels? d. Alimentary canal
e. All of the above are lined by a
a. Simple squamous epithelium mucosa
d. Stratified squamous epithelium Answer: d
e. Transitional epithelium
7.What type of gland secretes its product
Answer: a directly into the bloodstream?
3.What type of epithelium is more than a. Endocrine gland

one layer thick? b. Multicellular gland
c. Exocrine gland
a. Simple d. All of the above
b. Stratified e. None of the above
c. Squamous
d. Cuboidal
e. Columnar Answer: a
8.What is a gland called if it has an

Answer: b
unbranched duct?
4.What do you call a tissue composed of a
conglomeration of cells which are tightly a. Simple gland
packed together, yet which does not have
b. Compound gland
c. Tubular
a free surface? An example of such a
d. Alveolar
tissue would be the parenchyma of the
e. Tubuloalveolar
adrenal gland.
a. Epithelioid tissue Answer: a

b. Mesothelium
c. Endothelium
d. Transitional
e. Pseudostratified
Answer: a
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9.What is a gland called if the secretory

portion is tube shaped ending in a flask
shaped area at the terminus?
a. Simple gland
b. Compound gland
c. Tubular
d. Alveolar
e. Tubuloalveolar
Answer: e
10.What is the surface modification seen

on the cells of the epididymis?
a. Microvilli
b. Stereocilia
c. Cilia
d. Keratinization
e. Both a and b
Answer: b
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1.What type of epithelium forms the 6.What type of epithelium is composed of

epidermis? cells which all touch the basement
a. Simple squamous epithelium membrane
c. Simple columnar epithelium and is only one cell layer thick?
d. Stratified squamous epithelium a. Stratified squamous epithelium
e. Pseudostratified epithelium b. Transitional epithelium
c. Stratified cuboidal epithelium
d. Pseudostratified epithelium
Answer: d e. None of the above
2.What type of tissue lines most of the
gastrointestinal tract? Answer: d
a. Simple squamous epithelium 7.Which of the following is NOT lined by

b. Simple cuboidal epithelium a mucosa?
d. Stratified squamous epithelium a. Genitourinary tract
e. Transitional epithelium b. Pericardial cavity
c. Respiratory tract
d. Alimentary canal
Answer: c e. All of the above are lined by a
mucosa
3.What type of tissue forms the alveoli
in the lung? Answer: b
a. Simple squamous epithelium 8.What is a gland called if it has an

b. Simple cuboidal epithelium branched duct?
d. Stratified squamous epithelium a. Simple gland
e. Pseudostratified epithelium b. Compound gland
c. Tubular
d. Alveolar
Answer: a e. Tubuloalveolar
4.What type of epithelium is composed Answer: b
of flat cells?
a. Simple 9.What are finger like projections on the
b. Stratified surface of some cells called?
c. Squamous
d. Cuboidal a. Microvilli
e. Columnar b. Stereocilia
c. Cilia
Answer: c d. Keratinization
e. Both a and b
5.What do you call the simple squamous
epithelium that lines the abdominal Answer: a
cavity?
a. Epithelioid tissue 10.What cell surface modification is made
b. Mesothelium of microtubules?
c. Endothelium
d. Transitional a. Microvilli
e. Pseudostratified b. Stereocilia
c. Cilia
Answer: b d. Keratinization
e. Both a and b
Answer: c
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1.What type of tissue composes the kidney 6.Which of the following is NOT lined by
tubules? a serosa?
a. Simple squamous epithelium a. Peritoneal cavity

b. Simple cuboidal epithelium b. Pericardial cavity
c. Simple columnar epithelium c. Pleural cavity
d. Stratified squamous epithelium d. Respiratory tract
e. Transitional epithelium e. All of the above are lined by a
serosa
Answer: b
Answer: d
2.What type of tissue lines the
esophagus? 7.Which of the following is a unicellular
gland?
b. Simple cuboidal epithelium a. Squamous cell
c. Simple columnar epithelium b. Goblet cell
d. Stratified squamous epithelium c. Basal cell
e. Transitional epithelium d. Basket cell
e. Sertoli cell
Answer: d
Answer: b
3.What type of epithelium is one cell
layer thick? 8.What forms the striated border?
a. Simple a. Microvilli
b. Stratified b. Stereocilia
c. Squamous c. Cilia
d. Cuboidal d. Keratinization
e. Columnar e. Both a and b
Answer: a
Answer: a
4.What type of epithelial cells are
taller than they are wide? 9.What is a characteristic of the
cells in the epidermis of the skin?
a. Simple
b. Stratified a. Microvilli
c. Squamous b. Stereocilia
d. Cuboidal c. Cilia
e. Columnar d. Keratinization
e. Both a and b
Answer: e
5.What type of epithelium has dome shaped Answer: d

cells on the apical surface?
10.What is another term for an acinar
a. Epithelioid tissue gland?
b. Mesothelium
c. Endothelium a. Simple gland
d. Transitional b. Compound gland
e. Pseudostratified c. Tubular
d. Alveolar
e. Tubuloalveolar
Answer: d
Answer: d
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1.Which of the following is NOT primarily 5.Which of the following can be

composed of connective tissue? classified as "connective tissue
proper"?
a. Bone marrow a. Adipose tissue
b. Articular cartilage b. Dense irregular connective tissue
c. Heart c. Bone
d. Mesenchyme d. Blood
e. Fat e. Cartilage
Answer: b
Answer: c
6.What type of tissue is Wharton's jelly?
a. Mucous connective tissue

2.Which one of these cells is not a cell b. Mesenchyme
type routinely found in loose connective c. Loose irregular connective tissue
tissue? d. Dense irregular connective tissue
e. Dense regular connective tissue
a. Fibroblast
b. Microglia
c. Histiocyte Answer: a
d. Plasma cell
e. Mast cell 7.What type of tissue is a tendon
composed of?
Answer: b a. Mucous connective tissue

b. Mesenchyme
3.Which connective tissue cell is a c. Loose irregular connective tissue
tissue macrophage? d. Dense irregular connective tissue
a. Fibroblast
b. Myofibroblast
c. Histiocyte Answer: e
d. Plasma cell
e. Mast cell 8.What does connective tissue develop
from?
Answer: c a. Mesothelium
b. Mesenchyme
c. Mesangial cells
d. Mesentery
4.Which of the following can be
e. Wharton's jelly
classified as "specialized connective
tissue"?
Answer: b
a. Cartilage
b. Loose connective tissue 9.What color do elastic fibers stain with
c. Mesenchyme Verhoeff Elastic stain?
d. Dense connective tissue
e. Mucous connective tissue a. Red/Orange
b. Pink/red
c. Purple/Red
Answer: a d. Blue/black
e. Green/blue
Answer: d
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Verhoeff Elastic stain stains elastic

fibers blue/black. Collagen stains
pink/red. 4.Which cell is a connective tissue
macrophage?
a. Kupffer cells
10.Which of the following is a component b. Histiocyte
of the ground substance? c. Dust cell
d. Langerhans cell
a. Hyaluronic acid e. Microglia
b. Proteoglycans
c. Glycosaminoglycans
d. Chondroitin sulfate Answer: b
e. All of the above
5.
Answer: e Which of the following can be classified

as "specialized connective tissue"?
a. Mesenchyme
1.Which of the following is NOT primarily b. Mucous connective tissue
composed of connective tissue? c. Dense connective tissue
d. Blood
a. Blood e. Loose connective tissue
b. Bone
c. Tendon
d. Intervertebral disc Answer: d
e. Myometrium
6.Which of the following can be
classified as "embryonic connective
Answer: e tissue"?
2.Which of the following is NOT a a. Cartilage

fiber found in connective tissue? b. Mucous connective tissue
a. Collagen fiber d. Adipose tissue
b. Elastic fiber d. Bone
c. Reticular fiber e. Blood
d. Purkinje fiber
e. All of the above are fibers found
in connective tissue Answer: b
Answer: d
7.What type of tissue makes up the

3.Which connective tissue cell type dermis of the skin?
contains properties of smooth muscle a. Mucous connective tissue
cells? b. Mesenchyme
c. Loose irregular connective tissue
a. Fibroblast d. Dense irregular connective tissue
b. Myofibroblast e. Dense regular connective tissue
c. Histiocyte
d. Plasma cell
e. Mast cell Answer: d
Answer: b
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8. c. Histiocyte
d. Plasma cell
What type of adipose tissue tends to e. Mast cell
increase as humans age?
Answer: d
a. Brown adipose tissue
b. White adipose tissue
c. Unilocular adipose tissue 4.
d. Multilocular adipose tissue Which of the following can be
e. Both b and c classified as "specialized connective
tissue"?
a. Mesenchyme
Answer: e
b. Bone
c. Dense connective tissue
d. Mucous connective tissue
9.Which of the following would be best e. Loose connective tissue
suited to differentiate collagen
fibers from other fibers? Answer: b
a. Wright's stain
c. Sudan stain 5.
d. Silver impregnation Which of the following can be
e. Masson's trichrome stain classified as "connective tissue
proper"?
Answer: e a. Bone
b. Blood
1. c. Adipose tissue
Which of the following is NOT d. Loose irregular connective tissue
primarily composed of connective e. Cartilage
tissue?
a. Spinal cord Answer: d
b. Pubic symphysis
c. Ligament
d. Areolar tissue 6.
e. Organ capsule What type of connective tissue is an
undifferentiated tissue found in the
Answer: a embryo?
a. Mucous connective tissue
b. Mesenchyme
2. c. Loose irregular connective tissue
Which connective tissue cell type d. Dense irregular connective tissue
produces the ground substance in e. Dense regular connective tissue
connective tissue?
a. Fibroblast Answer: b
b. Myofibroblast
c. Histiocyte
d. Plasma cell 7.
e. Mast cell What type of tissue is a ligament
composed of?
Answer: a a. Mucous connective tissue
b. Mesenchyme
3. d. Dense irregular connective tissue
Which connective tissue cell is e. Dense regular connective tissue
derived from B lymphocytes?
a. Fibroblast Answer: e
b. Myofibroblast
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e. Mast cell
8.
Which of the following is not Answer: a
associated with connective tissue?
a. Tightly packed cells
b. Extracellular fibers 3.
c. Tissue fluid Which connective tissue cell type
d. Ground substance secretes histamine?
e. None of the above; all of the above a. Fibroblast
are seen with connective tissue b. Myofibroblast
c. Histiocyte
Answer: a d. Plasma cell
e. Mast cell
9. Answer: e
Which of the following would be best
suited to visualize lipid?
a. Wright's stain 4.
b. Hematoxylin and eosin stain Which of the following can be
c. Sudan stain classified as "specialized connective
d. Silver impregnation tissue"?
e. Masson's trichrome stain a. Loose connective tissue
b. Mesenchyme
Answer: c c. Adipose tissue
d. Mucous connective tissue
10. e. Dense connective tissue
A beauty treatment for the reduction
of wrinkles is the injection of Answer: c
hyaluronic acid into the wrinkle. What
is hyaluronic acid?
a. Dermatan sulfate 5.
b. Proteoglycan Which of the following can be
c. Glycosaminoglycan classified as "embryonic connective
d. Chondroitin sulfate tissue"?
e. Keratan sulfate a. Adipose tissue
b. Bone
Answer: c c. Blood
d. Cartilage
1. e. Mesenchyme
Which is the most abundant fiber in
connective tissue? Answer: e
a. Collagen fiber
b. Elastic fiber 6.
c. Reticular fiber What is areolar tissue?
d. Purkinje fiber a. Mucous connective tissue
e. Muscle fibers b. Mesenchyme
Answer: a d. Dense irregular connective tissue
2. Answer: c
Which connective tissue cell type
produces collagen?
a. Fibroblast
b. Connective tissue macrophage
c. Histiocyte
d. Plasma cell
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7.
What type of adipose tissue tends to
decrease as humans age?
a. Brown adipose tissue
b. White adipose tissue
c. Unilocular adipose tissue
d. Multilocular adipose tissue
e. Both a and d
Answer: e
8.
Which of the following would be best
suited to visualize reticular fibers?
a. Wright's stain
c. Sudan stain
d. Silver impregnation
e. Masson's trichrome stain
Answer: d
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1.
What type of basic tissue type is 6.
cartilage? Which type of cartilage forms the
a. Muscle skeleton of the fetus?
b. Nervous a. Hyaline cartilage
c. Cartilage b. Elastic cartilage
d. Epithelium c. Fibrocartilage
e. Connective tissue d. All of the above
Answer: e
Answer: a
2.
How many types of cartilage are there?
a. 1 7.
b. 2 What type of tissue makes up the
c. 3 "Adam's apple"?
d. 4 a. Hyaline cartilage
e. 5 b. Fibrocartilage
c. Elastic cartilage
Answer: c d. Both a and b
e. Both a and c
3. Answer: a
What do you call the space where a
chondrocyte sits in? 8.
a. Space of Disse Which type of cartilage forms the
b. Space of Mall intervertebral disc?
c. Vacuole a. Hyaline cartilage
d. Lacuna b. Elastic cartilage
e. Howship's Lacuna c. Fibrocartilage
d. All of the above
Answer: c
4.
What stain would be best to 9.
demonstrate the elastic fibers in Which type of cartilage forms the
elastic cartilage? hammer, anvil and stirrup?
a. Wright's stain a. Hyaline cartilage
b. Hematoxylin and eosin stain b. Elastic cartilage
c. Sudan stain c. Fibrocartilage
d. Silver impregnation d. All of the above
e. Resorcin fuchsin and orcein e. None of the above
Answer: e Answer: e
5. 10.
Which type of cartilage is found in Which type of cartilage is
the walls of the eustachian tube? characterized by the presence of
a. Hyaline cartilage elastic fibers?
b. Elastic cartilage a. Hyaline cartilage
c. Fibrocartilage b. Elastic cartilage
d. All of the above c. Fibrocartilage
e. None of the above d. All of the above
Answer: b
Answer: b
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11. 5.
Which type of cartilage is highly Which type of cartilage is
vascular? characterized by the presence of
a. Hyaline cartilage chondrocytes sitting in lacunae?
b. Elastic cartilage a. Hyaline cartilage
c. Fibrocartilage b. Elastic cartilage
d. All of the above c. Fibrocartilage
e. None of the above d. All of the above
Answer: e
Answer: d
1.
What cell produces the cartilaginous
matrix? 6.
a. Chondrocyte Which type of cartilage is the most
b. Chondroblast abundant?
c. Osteocyte a. Hyaline cartilage
d. Osteoclast b. Elastic cartilage
e. Bone lining cell c. Fibrocartilage
d. Hyaline cartilage and elastic
Answer: b cartilage equally
e. Elastic cartilage and
2. fibrocartilage equally
Which type of cartilage is found in
the larynx? Answer: a
a. Hyaline cartilage
b. Elastic cartilage
c. Fibrocartilage
d. Both a and b 7.
e. All of the above Which type of cartilage forms the
articular surface on bones?
Answer: d a. Hyaline cartilage
c. Fibrocartilage
3. Which of the following is NOT a d. All of the above
glycosaminoglycan in cartilage? e. None of the above
a. Chondroitin sulfate
b. Proteoglycans Answer: a
c. Keratan sulfate
d. Hyaluronic acid
e. All of the above are
glycosaminoglycans in cartilage 8.
Which type of cartilage is found in
Answer: b the external ear?
4. b. Elastic cartilage
Which type of cartilage is c. Fibrocartilage
characterized by a glassy matrix? d. All of the above
a. Hyaline cartilage e. None of the above
c. Fibrocartilage Answer: b
d. All of the above
Answer: a
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Note from Sarah Bellham: If you bend Answer: c

your ear forward, it bounces back into
its proper position. This is due to
the elastic cartilage. 3.
What is the mature cell in cartilage
9. called?
Costal cartilage is composed of what a. Chondrocyte
type of cartilage? b. Chondroblast
a. Hyaline cartilage c. Osteocyte
b. Elastic cartilage d. Osteoclast
c. Fibrocartilage e. Bone lining cell
d. All of the above
e. None of the above Answer: a
Answer: a
4.
10. Regarding the blood supply to
Which type of cartilage forms the cartilage:
symphysis pubis? a. Cartilage has minimal circulation
a. Hyaline cartilage b. Cartilage has a duel circulation
b. Elastic cartilage c. Cartilage is highly vascular
c. Fibrocartilage d. Cartilage is avascular
d. All of the above e. There is nothing unique about the
e. None of the above blood supply to cartilage
Answer: c Answer: d
11.
What structure is called white 5.
cartilage? Which type of cartilage is
a. Hyaline cartilage characterized by the presence of thick
b. Elastic cartilage bundles of collagen fibers?
c. Fibrocartilage a. Hyaline cartilage
d. Compact bone b. Elastic cartilage
e. Spongy bone c. Fibrocartilage
d. All of the above
Answer: c e. None of the above
1. Answer: c
What is the connective tissue covering
which surrounds cartilage? 6.
a. Perimysium What percent of the matrix of
b. Periosteum cartilage is water?
c. Perichondrium a. 0
d. Perineurium b. 10-40
e. Endosteum c. 40-60
d. 60-80
Answer: c e. 80-100
2. Answer: d
Where does cartilage come from?
a. Ectoderm
b. Endoderm
c. Mesenchyme
d. Connective tissue
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7.
Which type of cartilage forms the
epiphyseal growth plate?
c. Fibrocartilage
d. All of the above
Answer: a
8.
What type of tissue makes up the rings
of the trachea?
b. Fibrocartilage
d. Both a and b
e. Both a and c
Answer: a
9.
What type of tissue makes up the
epiglottis?
b. Fibrocartilage
d. Both a and b
e. Both a and c
Answer: c
10
Which type of cartilage is present in
the temporomandibular joint?
c. Fibrocartilage
d. All of the above
Answer: c
11.
What structure is called yellow
cartilage?
c. Fibrocartilage
d. Compact bone
e. Spongy bone
Answer: b
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1.
What is compact bone? 6.
a. Dense bone Which cell type is responsible for
b. Woven bone bone breakdown?
c. Immature bone a. Chondrocyte
d. Cancellous bone b. Chondroblast
e. Spongy bone c. Osteocyte
d. Osteoclast
Answer: a e. Bone lining cell
Answer: d
2.
What cell is involved in bone
resorption? 7.
a. Osteoclast What is bone formation called when the
b. Osteon bone is formed directly, without using
c. Osteocyte a cartilage template?
d. Osteoblast a. Intraosseous
e. Osteoid b. En bloc
c. Intramembranous
Answer: a d. Endochondral
e. Endosteum
Answer: c
3.
What type of basic tissue type is
bone? 8.
a. Epithelium What forms the epiphyseal growth
b. Connective tissue plate?
c. Muscle a. Elastic cartilage
d. Nervous b. Fibrocartilage
e. Bone c. Hyaline cartilage
d. Compact bone
Answer: b e. Spongy bone
Answer: c
4.
What is woven bone?
a. Cancellous bone 9.
b. Compact bone Which type of bone has spicules?
c. Dense bone a. Immature bone
d. Immature bone b. Dense bone
e. Spongy bone c. Compact bone
d. Cancellous bone
Answer: d e. Woven bone
Answer: d
5.
What are the spicules on spongy bone
called? 10.What sits in a lacuna?
a. Canaliculi a. Osteoclast
b. Sharpey's fibers b. Osteon
c. Trabeculae c. Osteocyte
d. Tome's process d. Osteoblast
e. Lacuna e. Osteoid
Answer: c Answer: c
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Osteoid is unmineralized bone matrix. 6.

1. What is the space that an osteocyte
What is dense bone? rests in?
a. Immature bone a. Canaliculi
b. Cancellous bone b. Sharpey's fibers
c. Compact bone c. Trabeculae
d. Woven bone d. Tome's process
e. Spongy bone e. Lacuna
Answer: c Answer: e
7.
2. What is bone formation called when the
Which cell is a resting osteoblast? bone is formed from a cartilage
a. Chondrocyte template?
b. Chondroblast a. Intraosseous
c. Osteocyte b. En bloc
d. Osteoclast c. Intramembranous
e. Bone lining cell d. Endochondral
e. Endosteum
Answer: e
Answer: d
3. 8.
What are the mineral crystals in bone What is the primary component of red
called? marrow?
a. Hydroxyapatite a. Hematopoietic tissue
b. Calcite b. Fat
c. Tourmaline c. Cartilage
d. Rubellite d. Fibrous tissue
e. Indicolite e. Bone
Answer: a Answer: a
4. 9.
What is the cylindrical structure in What cell is an immature bone cell?
compact bone? a. Osteoclast
a. Osteoclast b. Osteon
b. Osteon c. Osteocyte
c. Osteocyte d. Osteoblast
d. Osteoblast e. Osteoid
e. Osteoid
Answer: d
Answer: b
5. 10.
What are Sharpey's fibers? What is bundle bone?
a. Elastic fibers a. Cancellous bone
b. Collagen fibers b. Compact bone
c. Reticular fibers c. Dense bone
d. Trabeculae d. Spongy bone
e. Dense regular connective tissue e. Immature bone
Answer: b Answer: e
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e. Howship's lacuna
1. Answer: e
What is cancellous bone?
a. Dense bone The space of Disse is in the liver.
b. Woven bone The space of Disse is also called the
c. Immature bone perisinusoidal space. It is the space
d. Compact bone between the liver sinusoids and the
e. Spongy bone hepatocytes.
Answer: e The space of Mall is also in the

liver. The space of Mall is located at
the portal canal and is the region
between the connective tissue and the
2. liver parenchymal cells. It is the
What cell is involved in laying down site where lymph is formed within the
new bone? liver.
a. Osteoclast
b. Osteon A vacuole is a small clear space
c. Osteocyte within an individual cell.
d. Osteoblast
e. Osteoid A lacuna is a small space or
depression. The space that the
Answer: d chondrocyte rests in is a lacuna.
Howship's lacuna is seen in bone.

Howship's lacuna is a space seen
3. underneath an osteoclast.
What is in the bone matrix?
a. Elastic fibers 6.
b. Collagen fibers What is the covering of a bone?
c. Reticular fibers a. Perimysium
d. Dense irregular connective tissue b. Periosteum
e. Dense regular connective tissue c. Perichondrium
d. Perineurium
Answer: b e. Endosteum
Answer: b
4.
What are the small tunnels seen in
bone? 7.
a. Canaliculi What forms the articular surface on
b. Sharpey's fibers bones?
c. Trabeculae a. Spongy bone
d. Tome's process b. Compact bone
e. Lacuna c. Hyaline cartilage
d. Elastic cartilage
Answer: a e. Fibrocartilage
Answer: c
5.
What is the hollow area underneath an
osteoclast called?
a. Space of Disse
b. Space of Mall
c. Vacuole
d. Lacuna
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8. a. Osteoclast
What is the primary component of b. Osteon
yellow marrow? c. Osteocyte
a. Hematopoietic tissue d. Osteoblast
b. Fat e. Osteoid
c. Cartilage
d. Fibrous tissue Answer: e
e. Bone
Answer: b 4.
What are the collagen fibers that
extend into bone at an angle called?
9. a. Canaliculi
What is another term for the Haversian b. Sharpey's fibers
system? c. Trabeculae
a. Osteoclast d. Tome's process
b. Osteon e. Lacuna
c. Osteocyte
d. Osteoblast Answer: b
e. Osteoid
Canaliculi are the little tunnels
Answer: b within bone.
10. Sharpey's fibers are collagen fibers

What is nonlamellar bone? that extend into a bone at an angle.
a. Woven bone
b. Dense bone Trabeculae are the spicules seen with
c. Cancellous bone spongy bone.
d. Compact bone
e. Spongy bone Tome's process is seen in teeth, this
process is responsible for enamel
Answer: a production.
An osteocyte rests in a space called a

1. lacuna.
What is the mature bone cell called?
a. Osteoclast 5.
b. Osteon Which cell is the mature bone cell?
c. Osteocyte a. Chondrocyte
d. Osteoblast b. Chondroblast
e. Osteoid c. Osteocyte
d. Osteoclast
Answer: c e. Bone lining cell
2. Answer: c
What is immature bone?
a. Dense bone
b. Woven bone 6.What is the lining of the inner bone
c. Cancellous bone on the side which abuts the medullary
d. Compact bone cavity?
e. Spongy bone a. Perimysium
b. Periosteum
Answer: b c. Perichondrium
d. Perineurium
e. Endosteum
3.
What is unmineralized bone matrix? Answer: e
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The perimysium is the connective 9.

tissue sheath which surrounds muscle What is spongy bone
fascicles. a. Immature bone
b. Compact bone
The periosteum is the connective c. Cancellous bone
tissue covering of a bone. d. Dense bone
e. Woven bone
The perichondrium is the connective
tissue which surrounds cartilage. Answer: c
The perineurium is the covering of Compact bone is also called dense

nerve fascicles. bone. Compact bone has the Haversian
system.
The endosteum is the lining of the
inner bone (the side which abuts the Immature bone is woven bone. It is
medullary cavity). nonlamellar bone or bundle bone.
Spongy bone is also referred to as

7. cancellous bone. The mineralized
What forms the skeleton of the fetus? tissue is seen as spicules. Marrow
a. Elastic cartilage spaces are also present.
b. Hyaline cartilage
c. Fibrocartilage
d. Spongy bone
e. Compact bone
Answer: b
8.
Which of the following is a
multinucleated cell?
a. Osteoclast
b. Osteon
c. Osteocyte
d. Osteoblast
e. Osteoid
Answer: a
An osteoclast is a multinucleated cell

involved in the degradation of bone.
It is a bone resorbing cell.
An osteon is the cylindrical structure

with bone. An osteon is also called a
Haversian system.
The mature bone cell is called an

osteocyte. It sits in a space, called
a lacuna.
An osteoblast is an immature bone

cell. The osteoblast is the bone
forming cell.
Osteoid is unmineralized bone matrix.

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1. 6.
What is the connective tissue covering Which fiber type is make up fast-
of a muscle fascicle? twitch muscle?
a. Sarcolemma a. Red fibers
b. Endomysium b. White fibers
c. Epimysium c. Intermediate fibers
d. Sarcoplasm d. All of the above
e. Perimysium e. None of the above
Answer: e Answer: b
2.
What is actin?
a. Myofilament 7.
b. Myosin Which fiber type has more myoglobin?
c. Muscle fibers a. Red fibers
d. Myofibrils b. White fibers
e. Myocardium c. Intermediate fibers
d. All of the above
Answer: a e. None of the above
Answer: a
3.
Which of the following is composed of
smooth muscle? 8.
a. Upper esophagus Which fiber type gets its energy
b. Heart primarily from glycogen?
c. Tongue a. Red fibers
d. Biceps muscle b. White fibers
e. Walls of the visceral organs c. Intermediate fibers
d. All of the above
Answer: e e. None of the above
Answer: b
4.
What is a receptor in muscle?
a. Motor unit 9.
b. Motor neuron Which fiber type is seen in skeletal
c. Motor end plate muscle?
d. Neuromuscular spindle a. Red fibers
e. Neurotransmitter b. White fibers
c. Intermediate fibers
Answer: d d. All of the above
5. Answer: d
Which fiber type is larger in
diameter? 10.
a. Red fibers What is line that bisects the dark
b. White fibers band in muscle?
c. Intermediate fibers a. A band
d. All of the above b. I band
e. None of the above c. Z line
d. H band
Answer: b e. M line
Answer: d
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1.
What is the outer connective tissue 6.
covering of a muscle? What is released at a synapse?
a. Epimysium a. Motor unit
b. Sarcoplasm b. Motor neuron
c. Perimysium c. Motor end plate
d. Sarcolemma d. Neuromuscular spindle
e. Endomysium e. Neurotransmitter
Answer: a Answer: e
7.
2. Which fiber type is more resistant to
What is myosin? fatigue?
a. Muscle fibers a. Red fibers
b. Myofibrils b. White fibers
c. Myocardium c. Intermediate fibers
d. Myofilament d. All of the above
e. Muscle cell e. None of the above
Answer: d Answer: a
3. 8.Lance Armstrong is the seven time

Where is cardiac muscle found? winner of the Tour de France. The Tour
a. Myofilaments de France is a bicycle race which
b. Myosin covers between 3500 to 4000
c. Muscle fibers kilometers. What type of muscle fiber
d. Myofibrils probably predominates in his legs?
e. Myocardium a. Red fibers
b. White fibers
Answer: e c. Intermediate fibers
d. All of the above
4.
What type of muscle has visible cross Answer: a
striations?
a. Skeletal muscle 9.What region is made of thin
b. Cardiac muscle filaments?
c. Smooth muscle a. A band
d. Both "a" and "b" b. I band
e. "a" "b" and "c" c. Z line
d. H band
Answer: d e. M line
Answer: b
5.
What type of muscle is specialized for 10.On a cross section of a muscle, how
contraction? many thin filaments surround each
a. Skeletal muscle thick filament?
b. Cardiac muscle a. 2
c. Smooth muscle b. 3
d. Both "a" and "b" c. 4
e. "a" "b" and "c" d. 6
e. 8
Answer: e
Answer: d
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e. Neurotransmitter
1. Answer: a
What is the cytoplasm of a muscle
cell? 6.
a. Epimysium Which fiber type has a lot of
b. Sarcolemma mitochondria?
c. Endomysium a. Red fibers
d. Sarcoplasm b. White fibers
e. Perimysium c. Intermediate fibers
d. All of the above
2. Answer: a
What is another term for muscle cells?
a. Myofilaments
b. Myosin 7.
c. Muscle fibers Which fiber type uses more aerobic
d. Myofibrils metabolism?
e. Myocardium a. Red fibers
b. White fibers
Answer: c c. Intermediate fibers
d. All of the above
3.
Which of the following contains a Answer: a
substantial amount of smooth muscle?
a. Upper esophagus
b. Blood vessels 8.What is the light band in muscle?
c. Heart a. A band
d. Biceps muscle b. I band
e. Tongue c. Z line
d. H band
Answer: b e. M line
Answer: b
4.
What type of muscle contains actin and
myosin? 9.What type of muscle contains
a. Skeletal muscle sarcomeres?
b. Cardiac muscle a. Skeletal muscle
c. Smooth muscle b. Cardiac muscle
d. Both "a" and "b" c. Smooth muscle
e. "a" "b" and "c" d. Both "a" and "b"
e. "a" "b" and "c"
Answer: e
Answer: d
5. 10.What type of muscle has branching

What is a single neuron and the cells?
aggregation of muscle fibers a. Skeletal muscle
innervated by that single neuron b. Cardiac muscle
called? c. Smooth muscle
a. Motor unit d. Both "a" and "b"
b. Motor neuron e. "a" "b" and "c"
c. Motor end plate
d. Neuromuscular spindle Answer: b
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1.
Which fiber type is seen in smooth
muscle? 3.
a. Red fibers Which of the following is composed of
b. White fibers cardiac muscle?
c. Intermediate fibers a. Biceps muscle
d. All of the above b. Tongue
e. None of the above c. Heart
d. Upper esophagus
Answer: e e. Walls of the visceral organs
Answer: c
2.
A sarcomere is defined as the segment
from _____ to ____? 4.
a. A band What type of muscle contains centrally
b. I band placed nuclei?
c. Z line a. Smooth muscle
d. H band b. Cardiac muscle
e. M line c. Skeletal muscle
d. Both "a" and "b"
Answer: c e. "a" "b" and "c"
3. Answer: d
What are the bundle of longitudinal
contractile elements within a muscle
cell called? 5.
a. Myofilaments What is the point that a neuron
b. Myosin contacts a muscle called?
c. Muscle fibers a. Motor unit
d. Myofibrils b. Motor neuron
e. Myocardium c. Motor end plate
d. Neuromuscular spindle
Answer: d e. Neurotransmitter
1.
What is the covering of an individual 6.
muscle fiber? Which fiber type makes up slow-twitch
a. Sarcoplasm muscle?
b. Perimysium a. Red fibers
c. Endomysium b. White fibers
d. Epimysium c. Intermediate fibers
e. Sarcolemma d. All of the above
Answer: c
Answer: a
2.
What are the thick filaments composed 7.Which fiber type uses more anaerobic
of? metabolism?
a. Myofilaments a. Red fibers
b. Myosin b. White fibers
c. Muscle fibers c. Intermediate fibers
d. Myofibrils d. All of the above
e. Myocardium e. None of the above
Answer: b Answer: b
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3.
8. Which of the following is composed of
What is the dark band in muscle? skeletal muscle?
a. A band a. Tongue
b. I band b. Blood vessel
c. Z line c. Walls of the visceral organs
d. H band d. Lower esophagus
e. M line e. Heart
Answer: a Answer: a
9. 4.
What bisects the H band What type of muscle is composed of
a. A band spindle shaped cells?
b. I band a. Skeletal muscle
c. Z line b. Cardiac muscle
d. E band c. Smooth muscle
e. M line d. Both "a" and "b"
e. "a" "b" and "c"
Answer: e
Answer: c
10. 5.
What type of muscle has intercalated What type of muscle is always
discs? multinucleated?
a. Skeletal muscle a. Skeletal muscle
b. Cardiac muscle b. Cardiac muscle
c. Smooth muscle c. Smooth muscle
d. Both "a" and "b" d. Both "a" and "b"
e. "a" "b" and "c" e. "a" "b" and "c"
Answer: b Answer: a
1. 6.
What is the plasma membrane of a Which fiber type is smaller in
muscle cell called? diameter?
a. Endomysium a. Red fibers
b. Sarcolemma b. White fibers
c. Sarcoplasm c. Intermediate fibers
d. Perimysium d. All of the above
e. Epimysium e. None of the above
Answer: b Answer: a
2. What are the thin filaments? 7.Which fiber type fatigues more
a. Myocardium readily?
b. Myofibrils a. Red fibers
c. Myofilaments b. White fibers
d. Muscle fibers c. Intermediate fibers
e. Myosin d. All of the above
Answer: c
Answer: b
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8.
What type of muscle probably
predominates in Charles Atlas, the
worlds most famous power weight
lifter?
a. Red fibers
b. White fibers
c. Intermediate fibers
d. All of the above
Answer: b
9.
What is line that bisects the light
band in muscle?
a. A band
b. I band
c. Z line
d. H band
e. M line
Answer: c
A sarcomere is the segment that runs

from Z line to Z line.
10.
What is the name of the tissue which
surrounds muscle fascicles?
a. Perimysium
b. Periosteum
c. Perichondrium
d. Perineurium
e. Endosteum
Answer: a
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1.
Which of the following is found in the
cerebellum? 6.
a. Schwann cells What is white matter?
b. Basket cells a. Meninges
c. Ganglion b. Myelinated nerve fibers
d. Neuroglia c. Cell bodies
e. Satellite cells d. Nodes of Ranvier
e. Neurofilaments
Answer: b
Answer: b
2. 7.
What are neurons in the retina? What is another term for the cell body
a. Unipolar of a neuron?
b. Pseudounipolar a. Tracts
c. Bipolar b. Islets
d. Multipolar c. Soma
e. Both a and b d. Cortex
e. Nuclei
Answer: c
Answer: c
3. 8.
What are the basophilic clusters of What is the covering of a nerve fiber?
ribosomes and rough endoplasmic a. Neurium
reticulum seen in neurons called? b. Perineurium
a. Ganglion c. Epineurium
b. Perikaryon d. Endoneurium
c. Astrocyte e. None of the above
d. Nissl
e. Terminal bouton Answer: d
Answer: d 9.
Which of the following is the CNS
macrophage?
4. a. Astrocytes
All of the following are properties of b. Ependymal cells
neurons, except: c. Oligodendrocytes
a. High metabolic rate d. Microglia
b. Longevity e. Schwann cells
c. Specialized for conduction
d. High mitotic rate Answer: d
e. Limited ability for oxygen
deprivation 10.
Which of the following is found in the
Answer: d peripheral nervous system?
a. Astrocytes
5.Which type of neuron is also called b. Ependymal cells
an internuncial neuron? c. Oligodendrocytes
a. Sensory neurons d. Microglia
b. Motor neurons e. Schwann cells
c. Interneurons
d. Both a and b Answer: e
e. All of the above
Answer: c
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1.
What is the cell body of a neuron 6.
called? Which of the following is the largest
a. Ganglion neuroglia cell?
b. Soma a. Astrocytes
c. Astrocyte b. Ependymal cells
d. Nissl c. Oligodendrocytes
e. Terminal bouton d. Microglia
e. Schwann cells
Answer: b
Answer: a
2.
Where is the ependyma found? 7.
a. Lining ventricles Which of the following is NOT
b. Lining spinal canal considered neuroglia?
c. Covering the brain a. Astrocytes
d. Covering the spinal cord b. Ependymal cells
e. Both a and b c. Oligodendrocytes
d. Microglia
Answer: e e. Schwann cells
Answer: e
3.
Which type of neuron is most abundant? 8.
a. Sensory neurons What is the innervation of an eccrine
b. Motor neurons sweat gland?
c. Interneurons a. Cholinergic; parasympathetic
d. Both a and b b. Cholinergic; sympathetic
e. All of the above c. Adrenergic; parasympathetic
d. Adrenergic; sympathetic
Answer: c e. Cholinergic; motor
Answer: b
4.
What surrounds a bundle of nerve
fibers? 9.
a. Neurium What is the innervation of an apocrine
b. Perineurium sweat gland?
c. Epineurium a. Cholinergic; parasympathetic
d. Endoneurium b. Cholinergic; sympathetic
e. None of the above c. Adrenergic; parasympathetic
d. Adrenergic; sympathetic
Answer: b e. Cholinergic; motor
Answer: d
5.
Which meninx covers the brain 1.
intimately? What are the supporting cells in the
a. Dura mater central nervous system called?
b. Arachnoid a. Schwann cells
c. Pia mater b. Basket cells
d. Both a and b c. Ganglion
e. All of the above d. Neuroglia
e. Satellite cells
Answer: c
Answer: d
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2.
Which of the following is an element 7.
of the peripheral nervous system? What provides tensile strength to a
a. Receptors neuron?
b. Brachial plexus a. Meninges
c. Ganglia b. Myelinated nerve fibers
d. Sciatic nerve c. Cell bodies
e. All of the above d. Nodes of Ranvier
e. Neurofilaments
Answer: e
Answer: e
3.
What are most neurons in the body? 8.
a. Unipolar Which meninx is made of a delicate web
b. Pseudounipolar like connective tissue?
c. Bipolar a. Dura mater
d. Multipolar b. Arachnoid
e. Both a and b c. Pia mater
d. Both a and b
Answer: d e. All of the above
Answer: b
4.
What is the cell body of a neuron 9.
called? What are the conglomerations of gray
a. Ganglion matter deep within the cerebrum and
b. Perikaryon cerebellum
c. Astrocyte called?
d. Nissl a. Tracts
e. Terminal bouton b. Islets
c. Soma
Answer: b d. Cortex
e. Nuclei
5. Answer: e
Which cell is a macrophage found in
the central nervous system? 10.Which of the following is involved
a. Kupffer cells in the blood brain barrier?
b. Histiocyte a. Astrocytes
c. Dust cell b. Ependymal cells
d. Langerhans cell c. Oligodendrocytes
e. Microglia d. Microglia
e. Schwann cells
Answer: e
Answer: a
6. 1.Which of the following forms myelin

Which type of neuron is multipolar? in the peripheral nervous system?
a. Motor neurons a. Schwann cells
b. Interneurons b. Basket cells
c. Sensory neurons c. Ganglion
d. Both a and b d. Neuroglia
e. All of the above e. Satellite cells
Answer: d Answer: a
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2.
Which of the following is an element 7.
of the central nervous system? Where is the cerebrospinal fluid?
a. Receptors a. Between the dura mater and bone
b. Brachial plexus b. Subdural space
c. Sciatic nerve c. Subarachnoid space
d. Ganglia d. Between the pia mater and brain
e. Spinal cord e. None of the above
Answer: e Answer: c
3. 8.
What are motor neurons? Which of the following are considered
a. Unipolar to be part of the meninges?
b. Pseudounipolar a. Dura mater
c. Bipolar b. Arachnoid
d. Multipolar c. Pia mater
e. Both a and b d. Both a and c
e. All of the above
Answer: d
Answer: e
4.
What is a collection of cell bodies
outside the CNS called? 9.
a. Ganglion What is the outer gray matter of the
b. Perikaryon brain called?
c. Astrocyte a. Tracts
d. Nissl b. Islets
e. Terminal bouton c. Soma
d. Cortex
Answer: a e. Nuclei
5. Answer: d
What is tissue which surrounds a nerve
fascicle?
a. Perimysium 10.
b. Periosteum Which of the following is the most
c. Perichondrium abundant neuroglia cell?
d. Perineurium a. Astrocytes
e. Endosteum b. Ependymal cells
c. Oligodendrocytes
Answer: d d. Microglia
e. Schwann cells
6.The colloquialism "gray matter" Answer: a

refers to somebody using his intellect
or reasoning ability. In reality, what 1.Which of the following is a
is gray matter? supporting cell found in the ganglia?
a. Meninges a. Schwann cells
b. Myelinated nerve fibers b. Basket cells
c. Cell bodies c. Ganglion
d. Nodes of Ranvier d. Neuroglia
e. Neurofilaments e. Satellite cells
Answer: c Answer: e
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d. Nodes of Ranvier
2. e. Neurofilaments
Which of the following is an element
of the central nervous system? Answer: d
a. Receptors
b. Brachial plexus 7.
c. Brain What is the dura mater composed of?
d. Ganglia a. Loose irregular connective tissue
e. Sciatic nerve b. Dense irregular connective tissue
c. Dense regular connective tissue
Answer: c d. Simple squamous epithelium
e. Nervous tissue
3. Answer: b
What are interneurons?
a. Unipolar 8.
b. Pseudounipolar Where is gray matter?
c. Bipolar a. Outer surface of the cerebrum and
d. Multipolar cerebellum
e. Both a and b b. Outer surface of the spinal cord
c. Inner portion of the spinal cord
Answer: d d. Both a and b
e. Both a and c
4. Answer: e
Which of the following is supporting
cell of the central nervous system? 9.
a. Ganglion What surrounds a nerve?
b. Perikaryon a. Neurium
c. Astrocyte b. Perineurium
d. Nissl c. Epineurium
e. Terminal bouton d. Endoneurium
Answer: c
Answer: c
5.
How many neurons are in the body of 10.
man? Which of the following lines the
a. 10,000 (10 to the 4th) ventricles?
b. 10,000,000 (10 to the 7th) a. Astrocytes
c. 10,000,000,000 (10 to the 10th) b. Ependymal cells
d. 10,000,000,000,000 (10 to the 13th) c. Oligodendrocytes
e. 10,000,000,000,000,000 (10 to the d. Microglia
16th e. Schwann cells
Answer: c Answer: b
There are 10,000,000,000 (10 to the 1.What is a collection of nerve cell

10th) to 100,000,000,000 (10 to the bodies outside of the central nervous
11th) neurons. system called?
a. Schwann cells
6. b. Basket cells
What are the gaps that occur within c. Ganglion
the myelin sheath? d. Neuroglia
a. Meninges e. Satellite cells
b. Myelinated nerve fibers
c. Cell bodies Answer: c
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c. Astrocyte
d. Nissl
2. e. Terminal bouton
What percentage of neurons are
interneurons? Answer: e
a. 0.1%
b. 1%
c. 20% 5.
d. 80% What is the connective tissue covering
e. 99.9% around the brain and spinal cord?
a. Meninges
Answer: e b. Myelinated nerve fibers
c. Cell bodies
d. Nodes of Ranvier
3. e. Neurofilaments
What are sensory neurons?
a. Unipolar Answer: a
b. Pseudounipolar
c. Bipolar A ganglion is a collection of nerve
d. Multipolar cell bodies outside of the central
e. Both a and b nervous system. White matter is
myelinated nerve fibers. Gray matter
Answer: e is essentially neuron cell bodies.
Nodes of Ranvier are the gaps that
Sensory neurons are unipolar. Unipolar occur in the myelin sheath.
neurons are sometimes also called Neurofilaments are a type of
pseudounipolar. intermediate filaments seen in
neurons.
Neurons can be classified based on the
number of axons and dendrites stemming 6.
off of the cell body. A unipolar Which meninx is made of a dense
neuron has one process which branches irregular connective tissue?
off of it This process then a. Dura mater
immediately divides into two. Thus, a b. Arachnoid
unipolar neuron is sometimes also c. Pia mater
called a pseudounipolar neuron. d. Both a and b
Sensory neurons are unipolar. e. All of the above
A bipolar neuron has two process that Answer: a

branch from it: an axon and a
dendrite. Bipolar neurons are not very The meninges cover the brain and
common and are found in some of the spinal cord. There are three: dura
organs for special senses. Bipolar mater, arachnoid, and pia mater.
neurons are found in the retina, inner
ear, and the region of the nose The dura mater is the outer meninx.
involved with smell. The dura mater is composed of dense
irregular connective tissue.
Multipolar neurons have one axon and
many (at least two) dendrites that The arachnoid is made of a delicate
branch off of it. Most neurons are spider web like connective tissue.
multipolar. Motor neurons and
interneurons are multipolar. The pia mater is the innermost meninx.
It covers the brain intimately.
4.
What is the end of an axon called? Note from Sarah Bellham: Arachnoid is
a. Ganglion derived from the Greek word for
b. Perikaryon spider. It is used in the words
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arachnophobia, arachnids and

arachnoid. 9.
Which of the following forms myelin in
7. the central nervous system?
What is a group of fibers traveling a. Astrocytes
together? b. Ependymal cells
a. Tracts c. Oligodendrocytes
b. Islets d. Microglia
c. Soma e. Schwann cells
d. Cortex
e. Nuclei Answer: c
Answer: a Neuroglia are the supporting cells of

the central nervous system. Sometimes,
A group of fibers traveling together neuroglia called glial cells or glia.
to a destination is a tract. Islets of Astrocytes, ependymal cells,
Langerhans are seen in the pancreas. oligodendrocytes, and microglia are
Soma is another term for a neuron cell all neuroglia.
body. The outer part of the brain is
gray matter called the cortex. The Of the neuroglia cells, astrocytes are
conglomerations of gray matter deep the most abundant and the largest.
within the cerebrum and cerebellum are These are star shaped cells involved
called nuclei. in the blood brain barrier.
8. Ependymal cells line the ventricles

Where is white matter? and spinal canal.
a. Outer surface of the cerebrum and
cerebellum Oligodendrocytes form myelin in the
b. Outer surface of the spinal cord central nervous system.
c. Inner portion of the brain
d. Both a and b Microglia are the central nervous
e. Both b and c system macrophages.
Answer: e Schwann cells are seen in the

peripheral nervous system and are not
The outer part of the cerebrum and considered neuroglia. Schwann cells
cerebellum is gray matter. It is are responsible for the myelination of
called the cortex. Underneath the neurons in the peripheral nervous
cortex, is white matter. Gray matter system.
is also found in conglomerations
within the cerebrum and cerebellum 10.
where it is called nuclei. What is the primary component of
myelin?
Gray matter is found in the central a. Amino acids
portion of the spinal cord in a b. Protein
butterfly shape. White matter is on c. Carbohydrate
the outer portion of the spinal cord. d. Lipid
e. Both b and c
Note from Sarah Bellham: Notice that
the distribution of gray matter and Answer: d
white matter for the brain and spinal
cord is the reverse of each other. On
the cerebrum and cerebellum, gray
matter is on the outer portion, white
matter is deeper. For the spinal cord,
white matter is on the outer portion,
and gray matter is deeper.
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1.When using a compound microscope, 6.On a microscope, what structure

2. What is "compound microscope"? 7.In a good compound microscope, the

Answer: c 9.Which microscope would be particularly

7.During the preparation of a routine H&E

Answer: b 8.During the preparation of a routine H&E

Answer: e 9. Which of the following would be best

8.What color does hematoxylin stain

3.During the preparation of a routine H&E a. Orange

1.Which of the following is NOT a

a. Wright's stain a. Lysosomes

2.Which organelle contains digestive 7.How thick is the plasma membrane?

a. Rough endoplasmic reticulum a. Endocytosis

6.Collectively, what is the cytoplasm and Answer: b

a. Plasmalemma a. Tight junction

2.Which organelle is involved in lipid 7.Which of the following is an organelle?

4.Which of the following is NOT a 9.Which organelle produces protein for

a. Microtubules a. Rough endoplasmic reticulum

5.What is the limiting membrane of a 10.Where are ribosomes constructed?

a. Space of Disse a. Endocytosis

A lacuna is a small space or depression. a. Ribosomes

a. Ribosomes a. Epithelioid tissue

a. Simple squamous epithelium a. Simple squamous epithelium

10.What forms the brush border?

a. Microvilli 5.What type of epithelium appears

Answer: e a. Peritoneal cavity

3.What type of epithelium is more than a. Endocrine gland

8.What is a gland called if it has an

a. Epithelioid tissue Answer: a

9.What is a gland called if the secretory

10.What is the surface modification seen

1.What type of epithelium forms the 6.What type of epithelium is composed of

a. Simple squamous epithelium 7.Which of the following is NOT lined by

a. Simple squamous epithelium 8.What is a gland called if it has an

a. Simple squamous epithelium a. Peritoneal cavity

5.What type of epithelium has dome shaped Answer: d

1.Which of the following is NOT primarily 5.Which of the following can be

a. Mucous connective tissue

Answer: b a. Mucous connective tissue

Verhoeff Elastic stain stains elastic

Answer: e Which of the following can be classified

2.Which of the following is NOT a a. Cartilage

7.What type of tissue makes up the

Note from Sarah Bellham: If you bend Answer: c

Osteoid is unmineralized bone matrix. 6.

Answer: e The space of Mall is also in the

Howship's lacuna is seen in bone.

10. Sharpey's fibers are collagen fibers

An osteocyte rests in a space called a

The perimysium is the connective 9.

The perineurium is the covering of Compact bone is also called dense

Spongy bone is also referred to as

An osteoclast is a multinucleated cell

An osteon is the cylindrical structure

The mature bone cell is called an

An osteoblast is an immature bone

Osteoid is unmineralized bone matrix.

3. 8.Lance Armstrong is the seven time

5. 10.What type of muscle has branching

A sarcomere is the segment that runs

6. 1.Which of the following forms myelin

6.The colloquialism "gray matter" Answer: a

There are 10,000,000,000 (10 to the 1.What is a collection of nerve cell

A bipolar neuron has two process that Answer: a