These Quick Quizzes are not to test your knowledge. They are to test the facts you know. Hence the term Quick. These Quizzes should be doable in under 2 minutes. They are not Board like questions rather they are testing if you are retaining the facts you are studying in your review books i.e. first aid.

In an ideal world you would study a section of material and then take a quick quiz to ensure that you have understood and retained all the information you have read.

You have to understand that the problem with the way we study for Boards is that we read everyday for hours and hours. After a while all the information blends together. Quick Quizzes are meant to be a "Quick and Dirty" way to review the info you have studied each day. Use them to your advantage to analyze if you need to review particular topics.
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Today's Quick Quiz


Micro QQ 1
Know your bugs!!




  1. This bacterial structure has a keratin-like coat and is made up of dipicolinic acid?


  2. capsule

    flagellum

    spore

    glycocalyx



  3. All of the following diseases are caused by exotoxins EXCEPT?


  4. Meningococcemia

    Tetanus

    botulism

    diphtheria



  5. What occurs during the "log phase" of the bacterial growth curve?


  6. metabolic activity without division

    rapid cell division

    nutrient depletion slows growth

    nurtient depletion and buildup of waste products leading to death



  7. This bugs exotoxin blocks the release of the inhibitory neurotransmitter glycine?


  8. C. botulinum

    C. perfringens

    C. tetani

    Bacillus anthracis



  9. Which of the following does not Gram stain well?


  10. S. Aureus

    E. coli

    Bordetella pertussis

    Legionella pneumophilia



  11. Why doesn't Treponema Gram stain well?


  12. too thin to be visualized

    intracellular parasite

    no cell wall

    requires acid-fast stain



  13. Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces what color pigment?


  14. red

    yellow-blue

    purple

    blue-green



  15. Which of the following bugs produce IgA proteases?


  16. Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Neisseria gonorrhea

    Haemophilus influenzae

    all of the above



  17. Gram positive cocci, catalase negative, gamma hemolytic?


  18. S. Viridans

    S. agalactiae

    peptostreptococcus

    S. epidermidis



  19. Gram positive cocci, catalase positive, coagulase negative, Novobiocin resistant?


  20. S. aureus

    S. saprophyticus

    Listeria

    S. pyogenes