Last Modified: December, 2009. (J. Crimando)

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Practice Quiz #8

Choose the best answer to each question. Be sure to answer each question, unanswered question are scored as incorrect. When finished, check your final score by clicking on the "Grade" button at the bottom. There are nine more quizzes at the bottom of the page.

1. Which blood vessel receives blood from the right ventricle during systole?
a. superior vena cava
b. pulmonary trunk  
c. aorta
d. pulmonary veins

2. Which blood vessel receives blood from the left ventricle during systole?
a. superior vena cava
b. pulmonary trunk
c. aorta  
d. pulmonary veins

3. As the heart approaches the end of atrial diastole:
a. the atrial myocardium contracts thereby opening the semilunar valves
b. the ventricular myocardium contracts thereby opening the atrioventricular valves
c. the majority of atrial blood has entered the ventricles via gravity and elastic recoil  
d. all of the heart’s valves must remain opened in order for normal blood flow

4. The tricuspid valve is normally closed:
a. while the ventricles are in diastole
b. while the ventricles are in systole  
c. while the atria are in systole
d. during the movement of blood from the atria into the ventricles

5. You are viewing a heart dissected on a mid-frontal plane. All of the vessels leading into and away from the heart have been removed. The easiest way to determine the right and left sides is to:
a. find the opening of the coronary sinus
b. notice the difference in thickness of the ventricle walls  
c. locate the pulmonary semilunar valves
d. trace the pattern of the serous visceral pericardium

6. The anterior tibialis artery branches into the:
a. peroneal artery (or fibular artery)
b. medial plantar artery
c. dorsalis pedis artery  
d. lateral plantar artery

7. The axillary artery empties into the:
a. brachial artery  
b. subclavian artery
c. radial artery
d. brachiocephalic artery/trunk

8. The external carotid arteries supply
a. the neck only and do not supply the head
b. the cerebellum and brainstem
c. the cerebrum and brainstem
d. the brain, eye and orbital cavities
e. most of the head except the brain, eye and orbital cavities  

9. The vertebral arteries merge within the cranium to form the:
a. subclavian artery
b. basilar artery  
c. posterior cerebral arteries
d. anterior cerebral arteries

10. The internal carotid arteries branch to form all of the following, EXCEPT the:
a. anterior cerebral artery
b. middle cerebral artery
c. posterior cerebral artery  
d. anterior communicating artery

  
 
 
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