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Cranial Nerves

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The cranial nerves are apart of which system?

a)

Peripheral nervous system

b)

central nervous system

c)

autonomic nervous system

d)

All of the above

2.

What can cause damage to your cranial nerves?

a)

Injury

b)

Trauma

c)

whiplash

d)

all of the above

3.

Which nerve controls pupil size

a)

6

b)

4

c)

3

d)

5

4.

Which nerve functions solely by carrying afferent impulses for vision and arises from the retina?

a)

optic

b)

abducens

c)

trochlear

d)

oculomotor

5.

Ask the client to walk across the room and back and assess the client’s gait. Which nerve are you testing?

a)

7

b)

8

c)

11

d)

10

6.

Ask pt to smile, raise the eyebrows, frown, and puff out cheeks, close eyes tightly. Which nerve are you testing?

a)

Facial

b)

Trochlear

c)

Spinal accessory

d)

glossopharyngeal

7.

You ask client to protrude tongue at midline and then move it side to side. Which nerve are you testing?

a)

hypoglossal

b)

vagus

c)

facial

d)

trigeminal

8.

Which cranial nerve is the purple one?

a)

Trochlear

b)

Facial

c)

Trigeminal

d)

Oculomotor

9.

Which cranial nerve is the yellow nerve?

a)

Spinal Accessory

b)

Glossopharyngeal

c)

Hypoglossal

d)

vagus

10.

Bells palsy is from a lesion in which cranial nerve?

a)

Hypoglossal

b)

Facial

c)

Trigeminal

d)

Vestibulocochlear

11.

A lesion in which cranial nerve may cause your eyelids not to close fully?

a)

2

b)

4

c)

5

d)

7

12.

A lesion to this nerve will cause drooping eyelids.

a)

Oculomotor

b)

Trigeminal

c)

Optic

d)

Facial

13.

Which cranial nerve has the longest pathway?

a)

Trigeminal

b)

Spinal accessory

c)

Glossopharyngeal

d)

Vagus

14.

Which nerve has both sensory and motor functions?

a)

glossopharyngeal

b)

optic

c)

spinal accessory

d)

vestibulocochlear

15.

Which cranial nerve does NOT have autonomic functions?

a)

3

b)

7

c)

8

d)

10

16.

Cranial nerves 3,4 are a part of....?

a)

pons

b)

medulla

c)

forebrain

d)

midbrain

17.

Which nerve controls lateral eye movement

a)

abducens

b)

facial

c)

optic

d)

oculomotor

18.

Trochlear nerve controls which muscles?

a)

inferior oblique

b)

medial rectus

c)

superior oblique

d)

superior rectus

19.

When you smell fresh baked cookies, which nerve is being activated?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

7

d)

5

20.

Abducens is what number cranial nerve?

a)

3

b)

4

c)

6

d)

9