Cranial Nerve Practice Quiz
10/13/09
By Natalie Lynch and Courtney Gregory
Answer key on last page
1. What is the name and number
of the Cranial Nerve that
transmits information from taste
buds on the anterior portion of
the tongue?
2. What is the function of the
Accessory Nerve?
3. We use this nerve during meals
while chewing our food. Name
and Number Please.
4. Name two nerves that only
have Afferent fibers.
5. Give the three Cranial Nerve
numbers responsible for moving
the eyeball via extrinsic skeletal
muscles that attach to the sclera.
6. Give the name and number of
one Cranial Nerve used during
swallowing.
7. What is the function of the
Hypoglossal nerve? Is this an
Efferent or Afferent nerve?
8. What Cranial Nerve has both
afferent and efferent fibers for
the thorax and abdomen?
Name only.
9. Name the cranial nerve
innervates smooth muscles that
are responsible for changing lens
shape in the eye?
10. Give the names and
numbers of two cranial nerves
that are not true nerves.
11. Damage to the afferent
fibers of this Cranial nerve,
would disturb facial muscle
movement.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Facial VII
Innervates neck skeletal muscles
Trigeminal V
Olfactory, Optic or Vestibulocochlear
III, IV and VI
Glossopharyngeal IX and facial VII
Innervate skeletal muscles of the tongue.
Efferent
8. Vagus
9. Oculomotor
10. Olfactory I and Optic II
11.Trigeminal