Fun Quiz: Test Your Urinalysis & Body Fluids Knowledge

#1. Which of the following is a crystal that can be found in urine without any pathogenecity?

Sulfonamide

Leucine

Ammonium biurate

Bilirubin

Tyrosine

#2. Detection of the presence of nitrite in the urine is useful in the following except

Monitor treatment of urinary tract infection

Detection of infection by gram positive organisms

Prevention of kidney damage by treatment of early infection

Detection of asymptomatic urinary tract infection

#3. The presence of sufficient quantities of ascorbic acid in urine has the potential of causing false positive reactions with which of the following?

Copper reduction tests

Protein precipitation tests

Tests based on release of oxygen from a peroxide and oxidation of a chromagen

Tests based on a diazo reaction

#4. Useful microscopic techniques in the detection of fat globules, oval fat bodies, and fatty casts include the following except

Brightfield examination

Fluorescence microscopy

Sudan staining

Polarized and compensated polarized microscopy

#5. Simple sugar that is a major source of energy in the human body

Maltose

Galactose

Glucose

Sucrose

Fructose

#6. Squamous epithelial cells of vaginal origin encrusted with a coccobacilli, Gardnerella vaginalis

Vaginosis cells

Transitional cells

Vaginal epithelium

Clue cells

Renal tubular cells

#7. What is the principle behind the reagent strip testing for urine bilirubin?

Ehrlich's reaction

Nitroprusside reaction

Copper reduction

Biuret reaction

Diazo Reaction

#8. A watery liquid that continually circulates through the brain’s ventricles (hollow cavities) and around the surface of the brain and spinal cord.

Transcellular fluid

Neural sac

Subventricular exudate

Cerebrospinal fluid

Intracranial fluid

#9. Which of the following is true about the reagent strip test for specific gravity

Values affected by the presence of protein

Measurement requires relatively large urine volume

Measures all dissolved substances

Values affected by the temperature of the urine specimen

Values affected by the presence of radiographic contrast media

#10. Colorless hexagonal-shaped crystals that can be viewed upon microscopic analysis of the urine

Cystine