, HESI A2 TEST BANK CONTENT
Section I – Reading Comprehension
Questions: 45
Time: 45 Minutes
Section II – Mathematics
Questions: 50
Time: 60 Minutes
Section III – Part 1 - English Grammar (optional) Questions: 50
Time: 50 Minutes
Section III - Part II – Vocabulary
Questions: 50
Time: 50 Minutes
Section IV – Part I – Science (optional) Questions: 50
Time: 50 minutes
Section IV – Part II – Anatomy & Physiology (optional) Questions: 50
Time: 50 minutes
N/B: When you have completed the Test, check your answer against the Answer
Key at the end of the questions and read the explanation provided.
NOTE: The Science, Anatomy and Physiology and English sections are optional.
Check with your school for exam details.
, SECTION I - READING
COMPREHENSION.
Directions: The following questions are based on a number of reading
passages. Each passage is followed by a series of questions. Read
each passage carefully, and then answer the questions based on it. You
may reread the passage as often as you wish. When you have finished
answering the questions based on one passage, go right on to the next
passage. Choose the best answer based on the information given and
implied.
Questions 1 – 4 refer to the following passage. Passage 1 -
Infectious Disease
An infectious disease is a clinically evident illness resulting from the
presence of pathogenic agents, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa,
multi-cellular parasites, and unusual proteins known as prions. Infectious
pathologies are also called communicable diseases or transmissible
diseases, due to their potential of transmission from one person or
species to another by a replicating agent (as opposed to a toxin).
Transmission of an infectious disease can occur in many different ways.
Physical contact, liquids, food, body fluids, contaminated objects, and
airborne inhalation can all transmit infecting agents.
Transmissible diseases that occur through contact with an ill person, or
objects touched by them, are especially infective, and are sometimes
referred to as contagious diseases. Communicable diseases that require
, a more specialized route of infection, such as through blood or needle
transmission, or sexual transmission, are usually not regarded as
contagious.
The term infectivity describes the ability of an organism to enter, survive
and multiply in the host, while the infectiousness of a disease indicates
the comparative ease with which the disease is transmitted. An infection
however, is not synonymous with an infectious disease, as an infection
may not cause important clinical symptoms. 1
1. What can we infer from the first paragraph in this passage?
a. Sickness from a toxin can be easily transmitted from one person to
another.
b. Sickness from an infectious disease can be easily transmitted from
one person to another. c. Few sicknesses are transmitted from one
person to another.
d. Infectious diseases are easily treated.
2. What are two other names for infections’ pathologies?
a. Communicable diseases or transmissible diseases b. Communicable
diseases or terminal diseases
c. Transmissible diseases or preventable diseases d. Communicative
diseases or unstable diseases
3. What does infectivity describe?
Section I – Reading Comprehension
Questions: 45
Time: 45 Minutes
Section II – Mathematics
Questions: 50
Time: 60 Minutes
Section III – Part 1 - English Grammar (optional) Questions: 50
Time: 50 Minutes
Section III - Part II – Vocabulary
Questions: 50
Time: 50 Minutes
Section IV – Part I – Science (optional) Questions: 50
Time: 50 minutes
Section IV – Part II – Anatomy & Physiology (optional) Questions: 50
Time: 50 minutes
N/B: When you have completed the Test, check your answer against the Answer
Key at the end of the questions and read the explanation provided.
NOTE: The Science, Anatomy and Physiology and English sections are optional.
Check with your school for exam details.
, SECTION I - READING
COMPREHENSION.
Directions: The following questions are based on a number of reading
passages. Each passage is followed by a series of questions. Read
each passage carefully, and then answer the questions based on it. You
may reread the passage as often as you wish. When you have finished
answering the questions based on one passage, go right on to the next
passage. Choose the best answer based on the information given and
implied.
Questions 1 – 4 refer to the following passage. Passage 1 -
Infectious Disease
An infectious disease is a clinically evident illness resulting from the
presence of pathogenic agents, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa,
multi-cellular parasites, and unusual proteins known as prions. Infectious
pathologies are also called communicable diseases or transmissible
diseases, due to their potential of transmission from one person or
species to another by a replicating agent (as opposed to a toxin).
Transmission of an infectious disease can occur in many different ways.
Physical contact, liquids, food, body fluids, contaminated objects, and
airborne inhalation can all transmit infecting agents.
Transmissible diseases that occur through contact with an ill person, or
objects touched by them, are especially infective, and are sometimes
referred to as contagious diseases. Communicable diseases that require
, a more specialized route of infection, such as through blood or needle
transmission, or sexual transmission, are usually not regarded as
contagious.
The term infectivity describes the ability of an organism to enter, survive
and multiply in the host, while the infectiousness of a disease indicates
the comparative ease with which the disease is transmitted. An infection
however, is not synonymous with an infectious disease, as an infection
may not cause important clinical symptoms. 1
1. What can we infer from the first paragraph in this passage?
a. Sickness from a toxin can be easily transmitted from one person to
another.
b. Sickness from an infectious disease can be easily transmitted from
one person to another. c. Few sicknesses are transmitted from one
person to another.
d. Infectious diseases are easily treated.
2. What are two other names for infections’ pathologies?
a. Communicable diseases or transmissible diseases b. Communicable
diseases or terminal diseases
c. Transmissible diseases or preventable diseases d. Communicative
diseases or unstable diseases
3. What does infectivity describe?
