RAD 101, Chapter 20: Skull questions
with 100% correct answers
How many bones make up the cranium?
a. 4
b. 6
c. 8
d. 10 - correct answer ✔✔8
How many bones make up the face?
a. 6
b. 10
c. 12
d. 14 - correct answer ✔✔14
The cranial bones are rigidly jointed together by articulations called:
a. joints
b. bursae
c. sutures
d. cartilage - correct answer ✔✔sutures
Which one of the following is not one of the bones of the cranium?
a. maxillae
b. frontal
c. sphenoid
d. occipital - correct answer ✔✔maxillae
,Which one of the following is not a facial bone?
a. ethmoid
b. maxillae
c. mandible
d. zygomatic bones - correct answer ✔✔ethmoid
Which skull suture is found between the frontal and parietal bones?
a. sagittal
b. coronal
c. squamosal
d. lambdoidal - correct answer ✔✔coronal
Which skull suture is located between the parietal bones?
a. hyoid
b. coronal
c. sagittal
d. squamosal - correct answer ✔✔sagittal
Which of the following bones contain air sinuses?
1.) ethmoid
2.) frontal
3.) sphenoid
a. 1 and 2
b. 1 and 3
c. 2 and 3
d. 1, 2, and 3 - correct answer ✔✔1, 2, and 3
Which bone has condyles that articulate with the atlas of the cervical spine?
a. temporal
, b. occipital
c. parietal
d. foramen magnum - correct answer ✔✔occipital
The zygomatic arches are a part of which bone?
a. frontal
b. parietal
c. temporal
d. sphenoid - correct answer ✔✔temporal
Which bone in the skull contains the auditory organs and the organs of hearing?
a. temporal
b. sphenoid
c. occipital
d. ethmoid - correct answer ✔✔temporal
The petromastoid portion is a part of which bone?
a. temporal
b. sphenoid
c. occipital
d. ethmoid - correct answer ✔✔temporal
The vestibulocochlear organ is the organ of:
1.) hearing
2.) sensation
3.) balance
a. 1 and 2
b. 1 and 3
c. 2 and 3
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