Multiple Choice Quiz on Endocrine Glands and Hormones

This quiz is designed to assess your basic knowledge in ‘glands and hormones’. Questions come under ‘medium’ category. Choose the best answer from the four options given. When you've finished answering as many of the questions as you can, scroll down to the bottom of the page and check your answers by clicking 'Score'. Percentage score will be displayed along with right answers.

1. Which hormone causes dilation of blood vessels, increased oxygen consumption and glucogenesis?
glucagon
ACTH
Insulin
Adrenaline
2. Conn's disease is caused by the over secretion of
aldosterone
ADH
ACTH
None of these
3. Toxic agents present in food which interfere with thyroxine synthesis lead to the development of
toxic goitre
cretinism
simple goitre
hypothyrodism
4. The source of somtostatin is same as that of
thyroxine and calcitonin
insulin and vasopressin
somatotrophin and prolactin
vassopressin and oxytoxin
5. LH and FSH are collective called
oxytocin
somatotrophins
gonadotrophins
luteotrophic
6. Gigantism and acromegaly are caused due to increase of
CH
STH
ADH
None of these
7. Progesterone hormone is secreted by which of the following glands
corpus luteum
hypothalamus
pituitary
mature Graafian follicle
8. During emergency, which one of the following hormones is important?
aldosterone
thyroxine
adrenaline
calcitonin
9. Diabetes mellitus is caused due to deficiency of
glucose
vasopressin
insulin
glucagon
10. Addison's disease results from
hypertrophy of gonad
hyperactivity of Leydig's cells
hyposecretion of adrenal cortex
none of the above
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