POST TEST FOR MODULE 11:   The Visual Pathways and Visual Field Defects       Catalog    Home  

Including:
Section 1: The Visual Pathways
Section 2: Visual Field Defects as they relate to the Pathways

Section 3: Types of Visual Field Defects

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Section 1

1. After traveling through the vitreous, what is the first layer of the retina that light passes through?

A. retinal pigment epithelium

B. nerve fiber layer

C. rods and cones

D. bipolar cells

2. Nerve fibers traveling from the optic nerve head directly to the macula make up the:

A. papillo-macular bundle

B. arcuate bundle

C. horizontal raphe

D. physiological blind spot

3. Behind the eye, the optic nerves cross at a "junction box" called the:

A. optic nerve head

B. optic tract

C. optic radiations

D. optic chiasm

4. The left side of the brain perceives images from the:

A. right half of the visual field

B. left half of the visual field

C. right and left half of the visual field

D. superior visual field only

5. From the optic tract, nerve fibers travel to the:

A. optic radiations

B. occipital cortex

C. lateral geniculate body

D. frontal lobe

Section 2

6. A defect within the borders of the visual field is called a:

A. field cut

B. visual pathway

C. scotoma

D. wiring defect

7. Which type of visual field defect is caused by a problem anterior to the optic chiasm?

A. central scotoma

B. bitemporal hemianopsia

C. right complete homonymous hemianopsia

D. left incongruous homonymous hemianopsia

8. Which type of visual field defect is caused by a problem at the optic chiasm?

A. central scotoma

B. bitemporal hemianopsia

C. right complete homonymous hemianopsia

D. left incongruous homonymous hemianopsia

9. Which term means "on the same side of each eye"?

A. homonymous

B. hemianopsia

C. incongruous

D. congruous

10. A defect that is in the left (patient's left), lower quadrant of the visual field of the left eye could be termed:

A. inferior nasal

B. inferior temporal

C. superior nasal

D. superior temporal

Section 3

11. A general reduction in the overall sensitivity of the visual field, as measured by kinetic perimetery, is called a:

A. disease process

B. constriction

C. scotoma

D. depression

12. A "depressed" visual field would have average dB readings around:

A. 25

B. 35

C. 45

D. 55

13. A scotomatous area that is sensitive to bright stimuli but not to dim stimuli would be termed:

A. absolute

B. blind

C. relative

D. normal

14. Which type of scotoma would papilledema cause?

A. enlargement of the blind spot

B. peri-central

C. para-central

D. centro-cecal

15. Nerve fibers in the superior retina do not cross the horizontal line called the:

A. median

B. arcuate limit

C. horizontal raphe

D. horizontal rake