1. The lumbar and sacral roots from the spinal cord (e.g., dorsal roots)
are
________ than roots from the cervical spinal
cord.
a. shorter
b. wider
c. longer
d. thinner
2. Which of the following is not frontal lobe cortex?
a. the precentral gyrus
b. the primary motor cortex
c. the orbital gyrus
d. none of the above (i.e., all are
frontal lobe cortex)
3. Which of the following is not a component of the diencephalon?
a. hypothalamus
b. thalamus
c. epithalamus
d. metathalamus
4. Dr. Hoosier dropped his scalpel during brain surgery and damaged
her patient's
pyramidal tracts. In which part of the brainstem
did the damage occur (i.e.,
where are the pyramidal tracts)?
a. the dorsal medulla
b. the dorsal pons
c. the ventral medulla
d. the tectum of the midbrain
5. The falx cerebri refers to:
a. groups of axons
b. groups of neuron cell bodies
c. fused meningeal layers
d. a network of cerebral arteries