Cranial Nerve Practice Quiz

10/13/09By 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. Facial VII2. Innervates neck skeletal muscles3. Trigeminal V4. Olfactory, Optic or Vestibulocochlear5. III, IV and VI 6. Glossopharyngeal IX and facial VII7. Innervate skeletal muscles of the tongue.

Efferent8. Vagus9. Oculomotor10. Olfactory I and Optic II11.Trigeminal