1. While probing the auditory (Eustachian) tube an ENT surgeon
passes through the wall of the tube. The probe
would
immediately pierce:
a. levator palati muscle
b. superior constrictor of pharynx
c. tensor palati muscle
d. internal carotid artery
e. internal jugular vein
2. Concerning the paranasal sinuses:
a. the lymphatic drainage of the frontal sinus is to
preauricular nodes
b. all the sinuses are lines with respiratory mucous
membrane
c. the cavernous sinus is a lateral relation of the
sphenoidal sinus
d. all the sinuses are present at birth
e. the blood supply of the frontal sinus is mainly from
the facial artery
3. The following normally drain into the middle meatus of the nose:
a. frontal sinus
b. maxillary sinus
c. posterior ethmoidal air cells
d. middle ethmoidal air cells
e. nasolacrimal duct
4. The ethmoid bone is part of the :
a. medial wall of the orbit
b. medial wall of the maxillary sinus
c. anterior cranial fossa
d. septum of the nose
e. lacrimal fossa
5. The cavernous sinus:
a. contains the internal carotid artery
b. has the abducent nerve in its lateral wall
c. receives blood from the orbit
d. communicates with the pterygoid plexus of veins.
e. drains via the petrosal sinuses.
6. Facial paralysis is caused by injuries or lesions at:
a. cerebellopontine angle
b. internal acoustic meatus
c. floor of fourth fourth ventricle
d. internal capsule
e. tympanic membrane
7. Branches of the following nerves supply muscles attached to the
mandible:
a. facial nerve
b. hypoglossal nerve
c. posterior division of mandibular nerve
d. anterior ramus of first cervical nerve
e. vagus
8. The following are directly related to the mandible:
a. facial artery
b. marginal mandibular branch of facial nerve
c. lingual nerve
d. lingual artery
e. auriculotemporal nerve
9. Damage to the 12th cranial nerve in the hypoglossal canal causes:
a. atrophy of the same side of the tongue
b. deviation of the tongue to the same side on
protrusion
c. impaired closure of the oropharyngeal isthmus
d. impaired depression fo the hyoid bone
e. paralysis of the extrinsic, but not the intrinsic muscles
of the same side of the tongue
10. The tongue:
a. has the geniohyoid muscle on either side of a midline
fibrous septum
b. develops partly from the third brachial arch
c. has the upper end of the thyroidal development
track between the first and third brachial arch
components
d. has vallate papillae anterior to the sulcus terminalis
e. has taste sensation from the vallate papillae conveyed
by the chorda tympani