MAT 101 CORE EXAM SET 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative - ✔✔Global effort to increase incidence and duration
of breastfeeding; hospital must show it implements 10 steps to successful
breastfeeding; requires multidisciplinary team
✔✔LPN/LVN - ✔✔licensed practical nurse/licensed vocational nurse
✔✔RN - ✔✔registered nurse
✔✔Doula - ✔✔A caregiver who provides continuous physical, emotional, and
educational support for the mother before, during, and after childbirth.
✔✔_____ mL in a teaspoon - ✔✔5
✔✔_____ mL in a tablespoon - ✔✔15
✔✔Childbirth fever - ✔✔Streptococcus pyogenes
Transmitted to mother during childbirth by attending physicians and midwives
✔✔birthing center - ✔✔a facility in which women with low-risk pregnancies can deliver
their babies in a homelike setting
✔✔maternity ward - ✔✔the part of a hospital in which women give birth and where they
are taken care of after giving birth
✔✔antepartum - ✔✔before childbirth (reference to the mother)
✔✔intrapartum - ✔✔within (during) labor and childbirth
✔✔postpartum - ✔✔after childbirth
✔✔How long is the postpartum period? - ✔✔6 weeks
✔✔home birth - ✔✔Planned birth of the child at home, usually done under the
supervision of a midwife.
✔✔Margaret Sanger - ✔✔1921 - founded American Birth Control League; which
became Planned Parenthood in the 1940s. Advocated birth control awareness.
✔✔Le Leche League - ✔✔-1956
-International organization that provides education, information, support &
encouragement to women who want to breastfeed.
, ✔✔Testosterone - ✔✔the most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and
females have it, but the additional testosterone in males stimulates the growth of the
male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during
puberty
✔✔Estrogen - ✔✔A sex hormone, secreted in greater amounts by females than by
males. In nonhuman female mammals, estrogen levels peak during ovulation,
promoting sexual receptivity.
✔✔Progesterone - ✔✔A hormone produced by the ovaries which acts with estrogen to
bring about the menstral cycle.
✔✔hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) - ✔✔This stimulates the corpus luteum to
produce estrogen & progesterone. Pregnancy hormone
✔✔LH - ✔✔Luteinizing hormone, ovulation and egg release, maturation of egg, release
of testosterone in males.
✔✔FSH - ✔✔Atropic hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that targets the
gonads. In females, FSH stimulates the ovaries to develop follicles (oogenesis) and
secrete estrogen; in males, FSH stimulates spermatogenesis.
✔✔Prolactin (PRL) - ✔✔secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland; promotes
milk secretion
✔✔Oxytocin (Pitocin) - ✔✔Oxytocic. Stimulates uterine contractions for the purpose of
induction or augmentation of labor. Uses: antepartum for contraction stress test (CST),
intrapartum for induction or augmentation of labor, postpartum to promote uterine
involution. Precautions/interactions: contraindicated with placental insufficiency, bishop
score of 6 and greater when planning induction. Side effects: intense uterine
contractions, uterine hyperstimulation (contraction longer than 90 seconds), uterine
rupture.
✔✔Sperm - ✔✔Male sex cell
✔✔Ovaries - ✔✔Glands that produce the egg cells and hormones
✔✔ovum (ova) - ✔✔A mature egg cell
✔✔follicle - ✔✔the sac in the ovary in which the egg develops
✔✔ovarian cycle - ✔✔follicular phase, ovulation, luteal phase
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative - ✔✔Global effort to increase incidence and duration
of breastfeeding; hospital must show it implements 10 steps to successful
breastfeeding; requires multidisciplinary team
✔✔LPN/LVN - ✔✔licensed practical nurse/licensed vocational nurse
✔✔RN - ✔✔registered nurse
✔✔Doula - ✔✔A caregiver who provides continuous physical, emotional, and
educational support for the mother before, during, and after childbirth.
✔✔_____ mL in a teaspoon - ✔✔5
✔✔_____ mL in a tablespoon - ✔✔15
✔✔Childbirth fever - ✔✔Streptococcus pyogenes
Transmitted to mother during childbirth by attending physicians and midwives
✔✔birthing center - ✔✔a facility in which women with low-risk pregnancies can deliver
their babies in a homelike setting
✔✔maternity ward - ✔✔the part of a hospital in which women give birth and where they
are taken care of after giving birth
✔✔antepartum - ✔✔before childbirth (reference to the mother)
✔✔intrapartum - ✔✔within (during) labor and childbirth
✔✔postpartum - ✔✔after childbirth
✔✔How long is the postpartum period? - ✔✔6 weeks
✔✔home birth - ✔✔Planned birth of the child at home, usually done under the
supervision of a midwife.
✔✔Margaret Sanger - ✔✔1921 - founded American Birth Control League; which
became Planned Parenthood in the 1940s. Advocated birth control awareness.
✔✔Le Leche League - ✔✔-1956
-International organization that provides education, information, support &
encouragement to women who want to breastfeed.
, ✔✔Testosterone - ✔✔the most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and
females have it, but the additional testosterone in males stimulates the growth of the
male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during
puberty
✔✔Estrogen - ✔✔A sex hormone, secreted in greater amounts by females than by
males. In nonhuman female mammals, estrogen levels peak during ovulation,
promoting sexual receptivity.
✔✔Progesterone - ✔✔A hormone produced by the ovaries which acts with estrogen to
bring about the menstral cycle.
✔✔hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) - ✔✔This stimulates the corpus luteum to
produce estrogen & progesterone. Pregnancy hormone
✔✔LH - ✔✔Luteinizing hormone, ovulation and egg release, maturation of egg, release
of testosterone in males.
✔✔FSH - ✔✔Atropic hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that targets the
gonads. In females, FSH stimulates the ovaries to develop follicles (oogenesis) and
secrete estrogen; in males, FSH stimulates spermatogenesis.
✔✔Prolactin (PRL) - ✔✔secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland; promotes
milk secretion
✔✔Oxytocin (Pitocin) - ✔✔Oxytocic. Stimulates uterine contractions for the purpose of
induction or augmentation of labor. Uses: antepartum for contraction stress test (CST),
intrapartum for induction or augmentation of labor, postpartum to promote uterine
involution. Precautions/interactions: contraindicated with placental insufficiency, bishop
score of 6 and greater when planning induction. Side effects: intense uterine
contractions, uterine hyperstimulation (contraction longer than 90 seconds), uterine
rupture.
✔✔Sperm - ✔✔Male sex cell
✔✔Ovaries - ✔✔Glands that produce the egg cells and hormones
✔✔ovum (ova) - ✔✔A mature egg cell
✔✔follicle - ✔✔the sac in the ovary in which the egg develops
✔✔ovarian cycle - ✔✔follicular phase, ovulation, luteal phase
