1.
A 20-year-old male presents to you with a high steppage gait on the right side. You
suspect that he uses this compensatory gain because he suffers from foot drop.
What scenario is the most plausible regarding his condition?
A. 
He was playing basketball and landed on an inverted foot
B. 
He was playing football and someone fell on his everted foot
C. 
He was slashed with a knife near the lateral knee by a hoodlum on a skateboard
D. 
He was playing beer pong and passed out using his arm as a pillow
E. 
He was playing soccer and made a quick right turn as he ran after the ball
2.
Which tarsal bone articulates with more than one metatarsal bone?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
3.
The superficial fibular nerve is severed near its origin. What motor deficit(s) would
you expect in a patient with this injury?
A. 
Weak dorsiflexion, weak eversion
B. 
Weak dorsiflexion, absent eversion
C. 
D. 
E. 
No motor deficit because this nerve is purely sensory
4.
A patient presents to the emergency department with shortness of breath (dyspnea)
and cold clammy hands. Your team determines that the patient suffers from a
cardiac tamponade (due to blood within the pericardial sac, putting pressure on the
heart). You are asked to perform a pericardiocentesis to save the patient’s life. You
select your needle and insert it in which location in order to minimize risk?
A. 
Left parasternal 2nd intercostal space
B. 
Right parasternal 2nd intercostal space
C. 
D. 
E. 
Left 5th intercostal space in the mid-axillary line
5.
While performing pericardiocentesis, you unintentionally pierce a vessel running
parasternally within the internal thorax. What vessel has most likely been damaged?
A. 
B. 
5th anterior intercostal artery
C. 
D. 
E. 
Superior epigastric artery
6.
During open heart surgery, you are instructed by the surgeon to clamp the outflow
vessels of the heart. The anatomical space through which you will place the clamp is
called:
A. 
The oblique pericardial sinus
B. 
C. 
The transverse pericardial sinus
D. 
E. 
7.
A 2-year-old child presents with a ventricular septal defect, but he does not have
Tetralogy of Fallot. With this congenital anomaly, which valve is most likely to be
insufficient?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
8.
A 50 year-old male presents to his family physician for a well checkup. His past
medical history is significant for Rheumatic Fever as a child. During heart
auscultation, you hear a holosystolic murmur loudest in the left 5th intercostal space,
midclavicular line. What do you suspect?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
9.
The base of the heart is mostly occupied by which chamber?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
10.
One of the recurrent laryngeal nerves is usually shorter than the other. Which one
and why?
A. 
Left; starts at ligamentum arteriosum
B. 
Left; starts at left subclavian artery
C. 
Right; starts at ligamentum arteriosum
D. 
Right; starts at right subclavian artery
11.
The right pulmonic border of the heart consists mainly of what chamber?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
12.
The inferior border of the heart is mainly supplied directly by what artery?
A. 
B. 
C. 
Posterior Interventricular Artery
D. 
E. 
Left Anterior Descending Artery
F. 
13.
The Middle Cardiac Vein travels with which artery?
A. 
B. 
C. 
Posterior Interventricular Artery
D. 
E. 
Left Anterior Descending Artery
F. 
14.
You see a pharmaceutical commercial advertising a revolutionary drug to treat Mitral
Valve Prolapse that “tugs on the heartstrings.” Its mechanism of action most likely
involves which muscles that act on the chordae tendinae?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
15.
What is the embryological origin(s) of the right atrium?
A. 
B. 
Primitive atrium and right horn of sinus venosus
C. 
Primitive atrium and left horn of sinus venosus
D. 
Primitive atrium and pulmonary vein outgrowth
E. 
16.
What structure carries the Right Bundle Branch to the anterior papillary muscles?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
17.
How many shunts are typically involved in healthy fetal circulation?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
E. 
18.
The radiologist reports back to you on a patient who presented to the clinic with
shortness of breath (dyspnea) and chest discomfort: right middle lobe (RML)
pneumonia. You know from your days in the anatomy lab that the RML has two
segments. What are the functionally equivalent lobe and segments on the left?
A. 
Lower - superior and inferior segments
B. 
Lower - medial and lateral segments
C. 
Lingual - superior and inferior segments
D. 
Lingual - medial and lateral segments
E. 
Oblique - superior and inferior segments
F. 
Oblique - medial and lateral segments
19.
A 50-year-old patient presents with a chief complaint of facial swelling which began
several weeks ago. She also reports shortness of breath (dyspnea) with exertion. On
examination, the patient is tender over the mediastinum. X-rays and fine needle
aspiration reveal a mass consistent with a thymoma. What is the likely mechanism
responsible for the patient’s symptoms?
A. 
B. 
C. 
Underproduction of T lymphocytes
D. 
Compressed left brachiocephalic vein
E. 
Recurrent laryngeal nerve damage