NR 224 PATHOPHYSIOLOGY PRACTICE TEST 1
1. Smoking causes lung cancer
a. True
b. False
2. Degenerative changes in cells ultimately lead to cellular necrosis
a. True
b. False
3. Which of the following organ’s cells are the most dependent on oxygen?
a. Liver
b. Kidney
c. Heart
d. Skin
4. Exposure to which of the following could lead to chemical damage to cells?
a. Antifreeze
b. Antibiotics
c. Heavy metals
d. Alcohol
e. All of the above
f. All but option b
5. Sublethal cellular injury occurs first in what part of the cell?
a. The Endoplasmic Reticulum
b. The Cytoplasm
c. The Golgi Apparatus
d. The Nucleus
6. Hypertrophy and Atrophy are both adaptive cellular responses.
a. True
b. False
7. Liquefactive necrosis is commonly occurs in what organ?
a. The Skin
b. Liver
c. The Heart
d. The Brain
8. When hypertrophied, which of the following organ(s) tend to accumulate
lipids instead of water? (More than one answer may be correct) a. Liver
, b. Heart
c. Pancreas
d. Kidneys
9. A patient with TB has what look like craters in her lungs; this is an example of
what type of necrosis? a. Gangrene
b. Caseous
c. Liquefactive
d. Coagulative
10. Also known as postmortem lividity, which postmortem change occurs due to the
pooling of blood due to gravity? a. Livor Mortis
b. Algor Mortis
c. Rigor Mortis
d. Autophagocytosis
11. Dystrophic calcification can lead to which of the following?
a. Kidney Stone formation
b. Arterial Sclerosis
c. Splinter hemorrhages
d. All of the above
e. a and b
12. Which of the following are considered intrinsic disease pathways? a. Infection
b. Age
c. Radiation
d. Environmental toxins
13. Which of the following are considered recessive sex-linked disorders of the x
chromosome? a. Menkes’ disease
b. Hemophilia A
c. Turner’s syndrome
d. G-6-PD
e. All of the above
f. All but c
14. Mutation of a cell is always harmful to the host organism.
a. True
b. False
15. Which of the following have the ability to mutate DNA?
1. Smoking causes lung cancer
a. True
b. False
2. Degenerative changes in cells ultimately lead to cellular necrosis
a. True
b. False
3. Which of the following organ’s cells are the most dependent on oxygen?
a. Liver
b. Kidney
c. Heart
d. Skin
4. Exposure to which of the following could lead to chemical damage to cells?
a. Antifreeze
b. Antibiotics
c. Heavy metals
d. Alcohol
e. All of the above
f. All but option b
5. Sublethal cellular injury occurs first in what part of the cell?
a. The Endoplasmic Reticulum
b. The Cytoplasm
c. The Golgi Apparatus
d. The Nucleus
6. Hypertrophy and Atrophy are both adaptive cellular responses.
a. True
b. False
7. Liquefactive necrosis is commonly occurs in what organ?
a. The Skin
b. Liver
c. The Heart
d. The Brain
8. When hypertrophied, which of the following organ(s) tend to accumulate
lipids instead of water? (More than one answer may be correct) a. Liver
, b. Heart
c. Pancreas
d. Kidneys
9. A patient with TB has what look like craters in her lungs; this is an example of
what type of necrosis? a. Gangrene
b. Caseous
c. Liquefactive
d. Coagulative
10. Also known as postmortem lividity, which postmortem change occurs due to the
pooling of blood due to gravity? a. Livor Mortis
b. Algor Mortis
c. Rigor Mortis
d. Autophagocytosis
11. Dystrophic calcification can lead to which of the following?
a. Kidney Stone formation
b. Arterial Sclerosis
c. Splinter hemorrhages
d. All of the above
e. a and b
12. Which of the following are considered intrinsic disease pathways? a. Infection
b. Age
c. Radiation
d. Environmental toxins
13. Which of the following are considered recessive sex-linked disorders of the x
chromosome? a. Menkes’ disease
b. Hemophilia A
c. Turner’s syndrome
d. G-6-PD
e. All of the above
f. All but c
14. Mutation of a cell is always harmful to the host organism.
a. True
b. False
15. Which of the following have the ability to mutate DNA?
