Assessment Preliminary Assessments

Question 1

Which of the following must be included in a patients chart history? Medications, family history, How long the patient has taken current medications

Answer 1

All

Question 2

What type of headache is usually intense, strike early in the morning upon awakening and disappears as the day progresses?

Answer 2

Hypertension headaches

Question 3

Of the following, which may cause a patient to present with headaches because of an error in the eyeglass prescription? Under-correction of astigmatism, Overcorrection of hyperopia, PD too narrow or wide

Answer 3

All

Question 4

Keratoconjunctivitis sicca may be symptom(s) of or caused by which of the following? Asthenia, Incomplete blinking, some hormonal medications

Answer 4

Incomplete blinking and Some hormonal medications

Question 5

The misalignment of one eye turning nasally, while the other eye remains straight is referred to as a/an:

Answer 5

Esotropia

Question 6

At what distance from the patient should a properly adjusted eye chart be in order for the 20/20 line of Snellen letters to be 8.7mm in height?

Answer 6

Six meters (20 feet)

Question 7

What test is used to determine whether or not a patient V/a problem might be due to pathology?

Answer 7

Pin Hole test

Question 8

Which of the following are standardized methods of recording V/A that is less than 20/400? LP, HP, NLP

Answer 8

LP and NLP

Question 9

In North America, a person is considered legally blind when best corrected distance visual acuity is:

Answer 9

20/200 or less in the better eye

Question 10

What does the term ortho refer?

Answer 10

No deviation

Question 11

When performing the alternating cover test, if each eye moves nasally every time the cover is removed what does the patient exhibit?

Answer 11

Exophoria

Question 12

What is the conventional method of recording a right hypotropia?

Answer 12

Left hypertropia

Question 13

What is the test designed to test the actions of the six extra ocular muscles?

Answer 13

Broad H test

Question 14

In which of the following test(s) are prisms used?

Krimsky, Hirshberg, Near point of convergence

Answer 14

Krimsky

Question 15

What type of pupillary reflex will be observed if you shine a penlight in one eye and the fellow eye constricts?

Answer 15

Consensual reflex

Question 16

What is being tested when you employ the use of the Titmus fly test?

Answer 16

Stereopsis (Depth perception)

Question 17

If a patient has a normal visual field, their field of vision will extend approximately:

Answer 17

90 degrees temporally
70 degrees inferiorly
60 degrees superiorly

Question 18

Which visual field testing methods test only a patient’s central visual field?

Answer 18

Alsmer

Tangent screen

Question 19

What is the method used to test for glaucoma that requires the use of a slit lamp?

Answer 19

Goldmann

Question 20

Describe the acuity and color perception of a patient who is an atypical monochromat?

Answer 20

Normal V/A and lack of color vision