Cranial Nerve Quiz

Question 1

Olfactory

Answer 1

Sensory

Functions: Smell

Assessment: Smell Coffee or Peppermint

Question 2

Optic

Answer 2

Sensory

Functions: Vision

Assessment: Snellen chart, Test Visual Fields

Question 3

Oculomotor

Answer 3

Motor

Functions: Eyelid and Eyeball movement

Assessment: Move your eye up, down, and laterally
Test for Accommodation
Pupillary constriction
Observe for the ptosis of upper eyelid

Question 4

Trochlear

Answer 4

Motor

Functions: Turns eye down and laterally

Assessment: Inferior lateral movement of the eye

Question 5

Trigeminal

Answer 5

Both

Functions: Chewing, Face and mouth touch and pain

Assessment: Sensation of the skin of the face

Chewing, Biting, lateral Jaw movements

Question 6

Abducucens

Answer 6

Motor

Functions: Turns it laterally

Assessment: Inferior lateral movement of the eye

Question 7

Facial

Answer 7

Both

Functions: Controls most facial expressions
Sercetion of ears and saliva

Assessment: Taste
sweet: sugar. Sour: Lemon
Movement of the forehead
Raise eyebrows, show teeth, smile, puff out cheeks

Question 8

Vestibulocochlear

Answer 8

Sensory

Functions: Hearing

Assessment: Hearing Balance
Weber and Rinne Tests

Question 9

Glossopharyngeal

Answer 9

Both

Functions: Taste, Muscle Sense
Sensory awareness of the body

Assessment: Swallowing Phonation
Taste

Question 10

Vagus

Answer 10

Both

Functions: Arotic blood pressure
Slows heart rate
Stimulates digestive organs
Taste

Assessment: Sensation of posterior one third of the tongue throat
Gag Reflex
Swallowing Phonation

Question 11

Spinal Accessory

Answer 11

Motor

Functions: Controls Shoulders
Swallowing movements
Muscle Sense

Assessment: Shoulder movement/ Shrug
Head Rotation
Push against hands

Question 12

Hypoglossal

Answer 12

Motor

Functions: Controls Tongue movements

Assessment: Toungure movement
Push into the cheek