Mock Exam #3 Hearing Aid Dispenser Questions &
Answers Verified 100% Correct!!
If your patient has a fenestrated canal you would have to do which of the
following when taking ear impressions:
a. Use large or multiple otoblocks
b. use normal type of otoblock
c. use normal type of otoblock, but with the X-type of string
d. none of the above
a. Use large or multiple otoblocks
If your patient is using a device on their hearing aid to exclude room conversation
but is able to hear on the telephone the hearing aid would have an:
a. MPO switch
b. MBO switch
c. MTO switch
d. MSO switch
c. MTO switch
The use of ototoxic drugs would be most likely cause:
a. bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
b. Meniere's disease
c. otosclerosis
d. cerebral vascular accident
a. bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
A man comes into your office and says that his hearing instrument is not
working. During your inspection you find that it is not converting the electrical
impulses into sound waves. Which part is not working:
a. microphone
b. receiver
c. amplifier
d. potentiometer
b. receiver
In doing speech testing, if I start 15 to 20 dB over the PTA which test would I most
likely be doing:
a. UCL
b. MCL
c. SDT
d. SRT
d. SRT
One test that is useful in determining the possibility of an acoustic neuroma is:
a. PB Max
b. SRT
c. PI-PB rollover
d. SAT
c. PI-PB rollover
,One cause of the receiver to quit working is:
a. the battery is only at 1.4v
b. the battery is of the zinc air type
c. external otitis
d. perforation of the tympanic membrane
c. external otitis
If you have a patient with a pure tone air score of 45 dB with a pure tone bone
score of 60 dB at 500 Hz what could have caused it:
a. audiometer out of calibration
b. improper placement of bone oscillator
c. ambient noise
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
audiometer out of calibration, improper placement of bone oscillator, ambient noise
Input compression would help which of the following hearing problems:
a. recruitment
b. conductive component
c. normal hearing
d. conductive component in one ear and normal in the other
a. recruitment
Tinnitus cannot be caused by which of the following:
a. smoking
b. stress
c. heavy dosages of aspirin
d. atresia
d. atresia
If your patient has Meniere's syndrome, she would have which symptom:
a. coughing
b. vertigo
c. itching
d. all of the above
b. vertigo
What test would you use to get the patients ear cavity volume and acoustic reflex:
a. impedance
b. real ear
c. impression
d. Short Increment Sensitivity Index (SISI)
a. impedance
Which of the following is not used in determining retro cochlear problems:
a. Short Increment Sensitivity Index (SISI)
b. MCL
c. Acoustic Reflex Decay
d. Tone Decay Test
b. MCL
Internal feedback in an ITE aid can be caused by:
a. cerumen impaction
, b. dislodged receiver tube
c. dead battery
d. improper physical fitting
b. dislodged receiver tube
A doctor has referred a new patient to your office and in her report she states that
the patient impedance was normal. Impedance means:
a. electroacoustic instrument
b. outer ear function
c. middle ear function
d. inner ear function
c. middle ear function
Your patient uses a size 312 battery (150 mAh). His aid has a 2.30 ma drain. He
wears the aid about 14 hours a day. Approximately how many days will the
battery last:
a. 3-5 days
b. 5-10 days
c. 10-15 days
d. 15-20 days
a. 3-5 days
If a person has recruitment they would have:
a. resonant problem
b. abnormal growth in loudness
c. hears two tones for every one that is produced
d. conductive hearing loss
b. abnormal growth in loudness
Lateralization means:
a. that the test tone is not heard
b. that the test tone is heard in the ear being checked
c. that the test tone is heard in the non test ear
d. all of the above
c. that the test tone is heard in the non test ear
Which one of the following will cause a sensorineural hearing loss:
a. occluded external auditory meatus, because of cerumen
b. perforated tympanic membrane
c. rubella
d. closed eustachian tube
c. rubella
Inflammation of the inner ear can be called:
a. labyrinthitis
b. osteoporosis
c. cerumenthitis
d. vertigo
a. labyrinthitis
Mary a long time patient comes into your office and says that her right ear has
been hurting for the past few days and wants you to take a look. When you look
into her right ear you notice that she has a very red swollen canal and some
Answers Verified 100% Correct!!
If your patient has a fenestrated canal you would have to do which of the
following when taking ear impressions:
a. Use large or multiple otoblocks
b. use normal type of otoblock
c. use normal type of otoblock, but with the X-type of string
d. none of the above
a. Use large or multiple otoblocks
If your patient is using a device on their hearing aid to exclude room conversation
but is able to hear on the telephone the hearing aid would have an:
a. MPO switch
b. MBO switch
c. MTO switch
d. MSO switch
c. MTO switch
The use of ototoxic drugs would be most likely cause:
a. bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
b. Meniere's disease
c. otosclerosis
d. cerebral vascular accident
a. bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
A man comes into your office and says that his hearing instrument is not
working. During your inspection you find that it is not converting the electrical
impulses into sound waves. Which part is not working:
a. microphone
b. receiver
c. amplifier
d. potentiometer
b. receiver
In doing speech testing, if I start 15 to 20 dB over the PTA which test would I most
likely be doing:
a. UCL
b. MCL
c. SDT
d. SRT
d. SRT
One test that is useful in determining the possibility of an acoustic neuroma is:
a. PB Max
b. SRT
c. PI-PB rollover
d. SAT
c. PI-PB rollover
,One cause of the receiver to quit working is:
a. the battery is only at 1.4v
b. the battery is of the zinc air type
c. external otitis
d. perforation of the tympanic membrane
c. external otitis
If you have a patient with a pure tone air score of 45 dB with a pure tone bone
score of 60 dB at 500 Hz what could have caused it:
a. audiometer out of calibration
b. improper placement of bone oscillator
c. ambient noise
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
audiometer out of calibration, improper placement of bone oscillator, ambient noise
Input compression would help which of the following hearing problems:
a. recruitment
b. conductive component
c. normal hearing
d. conductive component in one ear and normal in the other
a. recruitment
Tinnitus cannot be caused by which of the following:
a. smoking
b. stress
c. heavy dosages of aspirin
d. atresia
d. atresia
If your patient has Meniere's syndrome, she would have which symptom:
a. coughing
b. vertigo
c. itching
d. all of the above
b. vertigo
What test would you use to get the patients ear cavity volume and acoustic reflex:
a. impedance
b. real ear
c. impression
d. Short Increment Sensitivity Index (SISI)
a. impedance
Which of the following is not used in determining retro cochlear problems:
a. Short Increment Sensitivity Index (SISI)
b. MCL
c. Acoustic Reflex Decay
d. Tone Decay Test
b. MCL
Internal feedback in an ITE aid can be caused by:
a. cerumen impaction
, b. dislodged receiver tube
c. dead battery
d. improper physical fitting
b. dislodged receiver tube
A doctor has referred a new patient to your office and in her report she states that
the patient impedance was normal. Impedance means:
a. electroacoustic instrument
b. outer ear function
c. middle ear function
d. inner ear function
c. middle ear function
Your patient uses a size 312 battery (150 mAh). His aid has a 2.30 ma drain. He
wears the aid about 14 hours a day. Approximately how many days will the
battery last:
a. 3-5 days
b. 5-10 days
c. 10-15 days
d. 15-20 days
a. 3-5 days
If a person has recruitment they would have:
a. resonant problem
b. abnormal growth in loudness
c. hears two tones for every one that is produced
d. conductive hearing loss
b. abnormal growth in loudness
Lateralization means:
a. that the test tone is not heard
b. that the test tone is heard in the ear being checked
c. that the test tone is heard in the non test ear
d. all of the above
c. that the test tone is heard in the non test ear
Which one of the following will cause a sensorineural hearing loss:
a. occluded external auditory meatus, because of cerumen
b. perforated tympanic membrane
c. rubella
d. closed eustachian tube
c. rubella
Inflammation of the inner ear can be called:
a. labyrinthitis
b. osteoporosis
c. cerumenthitis
d. vertigo
a. labyrinthitis
Mary a long time patient comes into your office and says that her right ear has
been hurting for the past few days and wants you to take a look. When you look
into her right ear you notice that she has a very red swollen canal and some
