ALAT EVALUATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Which parasiticide kills mites and ticks?
a) anthelmintics
b) insecticides
c) miticides
d) antiprotozoals - ✔✔c) miticides
✔✔Expiration date on a drug is? - ✔✔When a drug has may be expected to have lost
its potency for its effect
✔✔Enteral drug administration is? - ✔✔Providing a drug directly into gastrointestinal
tract either orally or rectally
✔✔Parenteral drug administration is? - ✔✔Providing drugs through the blood stream
(ie: IV, IC, IM, SQ, ID, IP)
✔✔Drugs delivered as vapors or aerosol are what kind of drugs? - ✔✔Inhalation drugs
✔✔Drugs delivered directly to the skin, eyes, and ears are what kind of drugs? -
✔✔Topical drugs
✔✔Cats are sensitive to what kind of drugs? - ✔✔opioids and NSAIDs
✔✔What drug can be fatal to guinea pigs? - ✔✔Penicillin
✔✔What are the two methods for euthanasia? - ✔✔Chemical agents and physical
methods
✔✔Who creates the guidelines for euthanasia? - ✔✔AVMA
,✔✔AVMA guidelines identify for each species what euthanasia methods? - ✔✔Methods
that are acceptable, conditionally acceptable, and unacceptable
✔✔Waste gas is drawn into an approved waste system, where it can be absorbed or
exhausted safely. This process is called? - ✔✔Scavenging
✔✔What supplement do guinea pigs need in their diet because their body lacks the
enzyme to produce it? - ✔✔Vitamin C
✔✔What is a vector? - ✔✔an organism that transmits a pathogen, but itself does not
cause disease
✔✔What are the two types of sentinel programs? - ✔✔Direct and indirect
✔✔Sentinels are placed in cages with the colony animals. Which sentinel program is
this? - ✔✔Direct sentinel program
✔✔Sentinels are housed in a seperate microisolation cages in the animal room? Which
sentinel program is this? - ✔✔Indirect sentinel program
✔✔After getting a TB vaccine when should the site be re-examined to determine if it is
positive or negative? - ✔✔48-72 hours
✔✔All NHPs should be tested for what, when they arrive at a facility during the
quarantine period? - ✔✔TB (tuberculosis)
✔✔What is the equation for Celsius? - ✔✔℃= ((℉-32))/1.8 or ℃=5/9 (℉-32)
✔✔If a pH has more hydrogen ions is it more acidic or alkaline? - ✔✔Acidic
✔✔If a pH has less hydrogen ions is it more acidic or alkaline? - ✔✔Alkaline
✔✔pH of 7 is what?
A) acidic
B) neutral
C)alkaline - ✔✔B) Neutral
✔✔If the pH is above 7 is that acidic or alkaline? - ✔✔alkaline
✔✔If the pH is below 7 is that more acidic or alkaline? - ✔✔acidic
,✔✔Separate housing is used when mating what animals to avoid killing the offspring or
eachother?
A) mice and rats
B) rats and gerbils
C) rabbits and hamsters
D) cats and mice - ✔✔C) rabbits and hamsters
✔✔MUS MUSCULUS - ✔✔Mouse
✔✔What is an outbred stock? - ✔✔the mating of unrelated animals in a closed colony
✔✔What are inbred strains? - ✔✔The breeding of related animals for many generations
until they all have the same genetic composition
✔✔Hybrids are? - ✔✔Animals from two different strains bred together to produce an
animal with genes from each strain
✔✔Malocclusion is? - ✔✔When teeth are not aligned and are overly long
✔✔In mice if the anal genital distance is longer what is the sex? - ✔✔Male
✔✔In mice if the anal genital distance is shorter what is the sex? - ✔✔Female
✔✔How often does a female mouse come into estrus? How old is a female mouse
usually before wanting to bred? - ✔✔Estrus every 4 to 5 days. Females usually start
breeding after 50 days of age
✔✔What is the gestation period in mice? - ✔✔19-21 days
✔✔What is a milk spot in mice? - ✔✔It is a distinct white spot, visible on the left side of
the abdomen in pups to show they drank the milk from the damn
✔✔Toe clippings should be preformed on what mice? Who approves toe clippings? -
✔✔Neonates only and IACUC
✔✔Barbering is when? - ✔✔A dominant mouse bites/chews the fur off the subordinate
mice in its cage
✔✔What is a mouse's sexual cycle?
A)Polyestrous
B)Diestrous
C)Monoestrous - ✔✔A) Polyestrous
, ✔✔Mice can be placed in what two kinds of cages? - ✔✔Solid bottom cages and wire
bottom cages
✔✔What is the average weight of a newborn mouse?
A)1-1.5 grams
B)4-5 grams
C)0.1-0.5 gram
D)2-3 grams - ✔✔A) 1-1.5g
✔✔What is the oldest inbred mouse?
A)BALB/c
B)C3H
C)DBA
D)FVB - ✔✔C) DBA
✔✔RATTUS NORVEGICUS - ✔✔Rat
✔✔There are three main outbred stocks of rats. What are they? - ✔✔Wistar, Spargue-
Dawley, and Long-Evans
✔✔What does the tears and saliva that rats and mice have in it that causes staining
around the eyes and nose? - ✔✔Porphyrin
✔✔What is a rat's sexual cycle?
A)Diestrous
B)Polyestrous
C)Monoestrous - ✔✔B)Polyestrous
✔✔What is the gestation period in a rat? - ✔✔21-23 days
✔✔If rats are kept in wire bottom cages what are they prone to? - ✔✔Foot Lesions
✔✔What is the most common inbred strain in rats?
A)Long-Evans
B)Wistar
C)Lewis
D)Fisher 344 - ✔✔C) Lewis
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Which parasiticide kills mites and ticks?
a) anthelmintics
b) insecticides
c) miticides
d) antiprotozoals - ✔✔c) miticides
✔✔Expiration date on a drug is? - ✔✔When a drug has may be expected to have lost
its potency for its effect
✔✔Enteral drug administration is? - ✔✔Providing a drug directly into gastrointestinal
tract either orally or rectally
✔✔Parenteral drug administration is? - ✔✔Providing drugs through the blood stream
(ie: IV, IC, IM, SQ, ID, IP)
✔✔Drugs delivered as vapors or aerosol are what kind of drugs? - ✔✔Inhalation drugs
✔✔Drugs delivered directly to the skin, eyes, and ears are what kind of drugs? -
✔✔Topical drugs
✔✔Cats are sensitive to what kind of drugs? - ✔✔opioids and NSAIDs
✔✔What drug can be fatal to guinea pigs? - ✔✔Penicillin
✔✔What are the two methods for euthanasia? - ✔✔Chemical agents and physical
methods
✔✔Who creates the guidelines for euthanasia? - ✔✔AVMA
,✔✔AVMA guidelines identify for each species what euthanasia methods? - ✔✔Methods
that are acceptable, conditionally acceptable, and unacceptable
✔✔Waste gas is drawn into an approved waste system, where it can be absorbed or
exhausted safely. This process is called? - ✔✔Scavenging
✔✔What supplement do guinea pigs need in their diet because their body lacks the
enzyme to produce it? - ✔✔Vitamin C
✔✔What is a vector? - ✔✔an organism that transmits a pathogen, but itself does not
cause disease
✔✔What are the two types of sentinel programs? - ✔✔Direct and indirect
✔✔Sentinels are placed in cages with the colony animals. Which sentinel program is
this? - ✔✔Direct sentinel program
✔✔Sentinels are housed in a seperate microisolation cages in the animal room? Which
sentinel program is this? - ✔✔Indirect sentinel program
✔✔After getting a TB vaccine when should the site be re-examined to determine if it is
positive or negative? - ✔✔48-72 hours
✔✔All NHPs should be tested for what, when they arrive at a facility during the
quarantine period? - ✔✔TB (tuberculosis)
✔✔What is the equation for Celsius? - ✔✔℃= ((℉-32))/1.8 or ℃=5/9 (℉-32)
✔✔If a pH has more hydrogen ions is it more acidic or alkaline? - ✔✔Acidic
✔✔If a pH has less hydrogen ions is it more acidic or alkaline? - ✔✔Alkaline
✔✔pH of 7 is what?
A) acidic
B) neutral
C)alkaline - ✔✔B) Neutral
✔✔If the pH is above 7 is that acidic or alkaline? - ✔✔alkaline
✔✔If the pH is below 7 is that more acidic or alkaline? - ✔✔acidic
,✔✔Separate housing is used when mating what animals to avoid killing the offspring or
eachother?
A) mice and rats
B) rats and gerbils
C) rabbits and hamsters
D) cats and mice - ✔✔C) rabbits and hamsters
✔✔MUS MUSCULUS - ✔✔Mouse
✔✔What is an outbred stock? - ✔✔the mating of unrelated animals in a closed colony
✔✔What are inbred strains? - ✔✔The breeding of related animals for many generations
until they all have the same genetic composition
✔✔Hybrids are? - ✔✔Animals from two different strains bred together to produce an
animal with genes from each strain
✔✔Malocclusion is? - ✔✔When teeth are not aligned and are overly long
✔✔In mice if the anal genital distance is longer what is the sex? - ✔✔Male
✔✔In mice if the anal genital distance is shorter what is the sex? - ✔✔Female
✔✔How often does a female mouse come into estrus? How old is a female mouse
usually before wanting to bred? - ✔✔Estrus every 4 to 5 days. Females usually start
breeding after 50 days of age
✔✔What is the gestation period in mice? - ✔✔19-21 days
✔✔What is a milk spot in mice? - ✔✔It is a distinct white spot, visible on the left side of
the abdomen in pups to show they drank the milk from the damn
✔✔Toe clippings should be preformed on what mice? Who approves toe clippings? -
✔✔Neonates only and IACUC
✔✔Barbering is when? - ✔✔A dominant mouse bites/chews the fur off the subordinate
mice in its cage
✔✔What is a mouse's sexual cycle?
A)Polyestrous
B)Diestrous
C)Monoestrous - ✔✔A) Polyestrous
, ✔✔Mice can be placed in what two kinds of cages? - ✔✔Solid bottom cages and wire
bottom cages
✔✔What is the average weight of a newborn mouse?
A)1-1.5 grams
B)4-5 grams
C)0.1-0.5 gram
D)2-3 grams - ✔✔A) 1-1.5g
✔✔What is the oldest inbred mouse?
A)BALB/c
B)C3H
C)DBA
D)FVB - ✔✔C) DBA
✔✔RATTUS NORVEGICUS - ✔✔Rat
✔✔There are three main outbred stocks of rats. What are they? - ✔✔Wistar, Spargue-
Dawley, and Long-Evans
✔✔What does the tears and saliva that rats and mice have in it that causes staining
around the eyes and nose? - ✔✔Porphyrin
✔✔What is a rat's sexual cycle?
A)Diestrous
B)Polyestrous
C)Monoestrous - ✔✔B)Polyestrous
✔✔What is the gestation period in a rat? - ✔✔21-23 days
✔✔If rats are kept in wire bottom cages what are they prone to? - ✔✔Foot Lesions
✔✔What is the most common inbred strain in rats?
A)Long-Evans
B)Wistar
C)Lewis
D)Fisher 344 - ✔✔C) Lewis
