All About Cover Tests

Which of these is a good target for NEAR cover test?

• the Snellen chart on the far wall

• a penlight

• a picture on the wall

• a detailed picture, like a sticker or letters on your pen

Should cover test be done WITH correction or WITHOUT?

• WITH correction always

• WITH correction only for near cover test

• WITH correction for presbyopes only

• WITHOUT correction

There are two types of cover test, unilateral and alternating. What are we looking for with a unilateral cover test?

• Peripheral vision

• a tropia

  (an eye turn)

• a phoria

• pupil size

What are we looking for with an alternating cover test? (two answers)

• the presence of a tropia (eye turn)

• the magnitude of a tropia (eye turn)

• a phoria

• pupil size

A normal, natural resting position of the eyes which only becomes apparent on alternating cover test (when binocular fusion is broke) is called a:

• tropia

• eye turn

• phoria

• eye muscle issue

Which of these is TRUE about phorias?

• they never cause symptoms

• they always cause symptoms

• they sometimes cause symptoms

• only really small phorias cause symptoms

Which of these is NOT a symptom associated with a severe, symptomatic phoria?

• red eyes

• eye strain

• neck pain

• motion sickness

Phorias and Tropias are classified by direction. Which of these are true? (two right answers)

• Exo means the eyes sit out (towards the temples)

• Exo means the eyes sit in (towards the nose)

• Eso means the eyes sit out (towards the temples)

• Eso means the eyes sit in (towards the nose)

This patient is looking straight at the camera. How would you describe their eye turn?

• Right Eso Phoria

• Right Exo Phoria

• Right Eso Tropia

• Left Eso Tropia

Which Achord Eye clinic employee was TERRIFED of inflatable air dancers as child?

• Dr Hair

• Julie

• Kaitlyn S.

• Megan