Practice test

Question 1

Most common age for medulloblastoma

Answer 1

Kids (3-8 years old)

Question 2

Glioblastoma most common age

Answer 2

60 for primary

45 for secondary

Question 3

Pilocytic astrocytoma most common age

Answer 3

childhood

Question 4

Pilocytic astrocytoma most common location

Answer 4

cerebellar hemispheres, optic nerves and chiasm, and hypothalamic region

Question 5

Meningioma age

Answer 5

women in 50s

Question 6

Ependymoma age

Answer 6

first two decades of life

Question 7

Ependymoma location

Answer 7

4th ventricle or spinal chord in adults

Question 8

Ependymoma grade

Answer 8

II or III

Question 9

AD general category of neurodegenerative disease

Answer 9

tauopathy and amyloid plaques

Question 10

AD brain sites

Answer 10

cortex

Question 11

Pick’s disease category of neurodegenerative disease

Answer 11

tauopathy

Question 12

Pick’s disease brain sites

Answer 12

frontal and temporal lobes

Question 13

Pick’s disease characteristic features

Answer 13

Ubiquitin
Tau
Pick bodies

Question 14

Parkinson’s general category of neurodegenerative disease

Answer 14

synucleinopathy

Question 15

Parkinson’s brain sites

Answer 15

substantia nigra (subcortical)

Question 16

Spongiform change

Answer 16

prions

Question 17

Huntington’s brain sites

Answer 17

caudate and putamen