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APLS Quiz 1

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This in 2025, is the which Anatomical Pathology and Laboratory Skills Workshop?

a)

1st

b)

9th

c)

14th

d)

15th

2.

The 'Father of Microscopy' was born in 1632. He is also known as ‘The Father of Microbiology’. He was the first to use a microscope to study tiny organisms and he gave these organisms a name rarely used today, ‘animalcules’. He is

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

c)

Robert Hooke

d)

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

3.

Which isn't one of the 4 humours?

a)

Sweat

b)

Phlegm

c)

Yellow Bile

d)

Blood

e)

Black Bile

4.

Which of these individuals understood and believed in germ theory to help their developments?

a)

Edwin Chadwick

b)

John Snow

c)

Florence Nightingale

d)

Robert Koch

5.

In Medieval Europe, doctors often diagnosed their patients by observing the urine’s smell, consistency – and even its taste. Urine analysis was pioneered by whom in the 1600s when the characteristic sweet taste of urine from patients with diabetes was noticed.

a)

Horace Wells

b)

Henry Dunant

c)

Rene Laennec

d)

Thomas Willis

6.

The 'Father of anatomical pathology' Rudolph Virchow brought the microscope to the science of pathology and gave rise to the famous axiom "omnis cellula e cellula"

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Formalin was introduced in

a)

1858

b)

1893

c)

1897

d)

1903

8.

Although some 10 years before paraffin embedding was mastered, the microtome was invented in

a)

1858

b)

1869

c)

1878

d)

1885

9.

The first successful tissue stain was

a)

Haematoxylin and Eosin

b)

Haematoxylin and Aniline

c)

Methylene Blue

d)

Ammonia carmine

10.

George Papanicolaou's persistence to make the Pap smear and cytology a common clinical tool resulted in cervical and uterine cancer to reduce over the last 40 years by

a)

20%

b)

50%

c)

70%

d)

90%