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CPR, AED, & Basic First Aid Test Guide
Questions with Verified Answers
You are a newly trained first aid provider responding to a report of an individual who has
collapsed. Which of the following best describes your role in a medical emergency?
A) Only trained providers like yourself are authorized to provide care.
B) You are trained to recognize, assess, and prioritize the need for first aid care.
C) You are responsible for the ill or injured person until he or she can get to a hospital.
D) You are trained to respond to many emergencies, but may have to go beyond your training to
manage challenging ones. - Answers✓✓B) You are trained to recognize, assess, and prioritize
the need for first aid care.
What is the basic purpose of Good Samaritan laws?*
A) To protect someone who incorrectly makes the assumption of implied consent.
B) To encourage people to attempt care beyond their training when it is necessary.
C) To encourage bystanders to help those in need by protecting anyone who volunteers
assistance.
D) To place the legal liability on the person who consents to receive care. - Answers✓✓C) To
encourage bystanders to help those in need by protecting anyone who volunteers assistance.
Why is angling the body and face towards the ground important when placing an individual in
the recovery position?
A) It stabilizes the head and body, with no pressure on chest.
B) It allows you to roll the person toward you in a single motion.
C) It aligns the head on the extended arm.
D) It helps keep fluids and the tongue clear from the airway. - Answers✓✓D) It helps keep
fluids and the tongue clear from the airway.
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Which best describes the initial care provided for an individual who is unresponsive and not
breathing or not breathing normally?
A) Perform ongoing abdominal thrusts until the person can breathe normally.
B) Perform ongoing cycles of 30 chest compressions and 2 rescue breaths.
C) Use head tilt and chin lift to maintain a clear and open airway.
D) Roll the person into a side-lying recovery position. - Answers✓✓B) Perform ongoing cycles
of 30 chest compressions and 2 rescue breaths
You are eating lunch when an individual at a nearby table stands up suddenly and grasps his
hands to his throat. You go to help and ask him if he is choking. How can you tell if the
obstruction is severe and requires your help?
A) He is coughing forcibly to try and get the object out.
B) He spits out a big mass of food on to the floor.
C) He has to speak in single words to tell you he is choking.
D) He cannot speak or make any sounds. - Answers✓✓D) He cannot speak or make any sounds.
You are caring for an individual who has fallen and injured her forearm, which is lying at an
unnatural angle. You cut away her shirt sleeve to reveal an open wound with exposed bone and
minor bleeding. What should you do?
A) Push the bone back under the skin to protect it from further damage.
B) Straighten the limb to return it to a natural angle.
C) Apply a tourniquet above the injury site.
D) Immobilize the limb as found using padding to fill the gaps around and under the arm. -
Answers✓✓D) Immobilize the limb as found using padding to fill the gaps around and under the
arm.
You are caring for an individual with a nosebleed. What should you do to provide care?
A) Roll up sterile pads and insert them into each nostril to plug the bleeding.
B) Pinch the soft portion of the nose and have him tilt his head forward, chin down.
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CPR, AED, & Basic First Aid Test Guide
Questions with Verified Answers
You are a newly trained first aid provider responding to a report of an individual who has
collapsed. Which of the following best describes your role in a medical emergency?
A) Only trained providers like yourself are authorized to provide care.
B) You are trained to recognize, assess, and prioritize the need for first aid care.
C) You are responsible for the ill or injured person until he or she can get to a hospital.
D) You are trained to respond to many emergencies, but may have to go beyond your training to
manage challenging ones. - Answers✓✓B) You are trained to recognize, assess, and prioritize
the need for first aid care.
What is the basic purpose of Good Samaritan laws?*
A) To protect someone who incorrectly makes the assumption of implied consent.
B) To encourage people to attempt care beyond their training when it is necessary.
C) To encourage bystanders to help those in need by protecting anyone who volunteers
assistance.
D) To place the legal liability on the person who consents to receive care. - Answers✓✓C) To
encourage bystanders to help those in need by protecting anyone who volunteers assistance.
Why is angling the body and face towards the ground important when placing an individual in
the recovery position?
A) It stabilizes the head and body, with no pressure on chest.
B) It allows you to roll the person toward you in a single motion.
C) It aligns the head on the extended arm.
D) It helps keep fluids and the tongue clear from the airway. - Answers✓✓D) It helps keep
fluids and the tongue clear from the airway.
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Which best describes the initial care provided for an individual who is unresponsive and not
breathing or not breathing normally?
A) Perform ongoing abdominal thrusts until the person can breathe normally.
B) Perform ongoing cycles of 30 chest compressions and 2 rescue breaths.
C) Use head tilt and chin lift to maintain a clear and open airway.
D) Roll the person into a side-lying recovery position. - Answers✓✓B) Perform ongoing cycles
of 30 chest compressions and 2 rescue breaths
You are eating lunch when an individual at a nearby table stands up suddenly and grasps his
hands to his throat. You go to help and ask him if he is choking. How can you tell if the
obstruction is severe and requires your help?
A) He is coughing forcibly to try and get the object out.
B) He spits out a big mass of food on to the floor.
C) He has to speak in single words to tell you he is choking.
D) He cannot speak or make any sounds. - Answers✓✓D) He cannot speak or make any sounds.
You are caring for an individual who has fallen and injured her forearm, which is lying at an
unnatural angle. You cut away her shirt sleeve to reveal an open wound with exposed bone and
minor bleeding. What should you do?
A) Push the bone back under the skin to protect it from further damage.
B) Straighten the limb to return it to a natural angle.
C) Apply a tourniquet above the injury site.
D) Immobilize the limb as found using padding to fill the gaps around and under the arm. -
Answers✓✓D) Immobilize the limb as found using padding to fill the gaps around and under the
arm.
You are caring for an individual with a nosebleed. What should you do to provide care?
A) Roll up sterile pads and insert them into each nostril to plug the bleeding.
B) Pinch the soft portion of the nose and have him tilt his head forward, chin down.
