VTNE Practice Test 2 Questions and Answers 2024
1 . Alpha-2 agonists, used therapeutically, decrease 5 . All the following are true of veterinarian-client-
cardiac output in most animals. This decrease is patient relationships except:
due to: 1. the client and owner of the patient should
1. decreased afterload. be skeptical of the veterinarian.
2. coronary vasoconstriction. 2. the veterinarian should regularly visit
3. high catecholamine levels. animals in the clinic or in the field.
4. increased myocardial oxygen consumption. 3. the client and owner of the patient should
be honest with the veterinarian.
2 . Which of the following is a reason geriatric patients
4. the veterinarian should be on-call and
should be scheduled for surgery before young
available in the event of an emergency.
patients?
1. Young patients become stressed more 6 . Which of the following is a major disadvantage in
easily. performing fluoroscopic studies on animals?
2. Geriatric patients take longer to recover. 1. These studies are often expensive, so
3. Young patients need to eat more often. owners choose not to consent to testing.
4. Geriatric patients do not have to drink so 2. These studies’ images can be saved in a
often. variety of ways, including videotape.
3. These studies expose veterinary personnel
3 . Which teeth are primarily used for cutting, shearing, to radiation.
and holding? 4. These studies replace angiographic
1. Premolars catheters.
2. Incisors
3. Molars 7 . Veterinary technicians may use the tape technique
4. Canines to examine an area of skin for all the following
except:
4 . Which of the following is a correct statement 1. bacteria.
concerning tissue samples? 2. ringworm.
1. Once removed from the animal, tissue 3. Malassezia.
immediately starts to die. 4. surface mites.
2. The process of autolysis is accelerated by
8 . After surgical equipment is sterilized, it is packaged
cool temperatures.
and stored. Items can become unsterile if they are
3. Fixing tissues hastens the deterioration of
not stored or handled properly. Which of the
cell membranes.
following surgical items is still sterile?
4. Tissues for standard histological
1. The item was stored in a humid area, and
examination should be frozen.
the packing is now wet.
2. A technician pulled back the packing
without touching the paper to the
instrument.
3. The item was stored in a pack that was
punctured by another instrument.
4. A technician pulled back the packing and
touched the item with his forearm.
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9 . All the following statements about general 15 . Veterinary medical teams wish to meet four goals
toxicology specimens are true except: when anesthetizing a patient for ophthalmic
1. They should not be washed or submitted to surgery. These include all the following except to:
extraneous contamination. 1. provide a mobile eye.
2. They should be submitted in leak-proof and 2. provide a pain-free recovery.
sterile glass or plastic containers. 3. support cardiopulmonary function.
3. They should be collected fresh and then 4. avoid increases in intraocular pressure.
delivered to the lab frozen.
16 . A correct statement concerning a Michel’s trephine
4. They should not be individually labeled;
is it is:
only the largest containers need labels.
1. most often used for bone biopsies.
10 . Many veterinary clinics do not line kennel floors 2. able to cut a square hole through bone.
with newspapers because newspapers are not: 3. only available in one diameter.
1. readily available. 4. battery or electric-power operated.
2. easily disposable.
17 . Which of the following urine preservatives is used
3. absorbent.
for biochemical analyses of urea, ammonia,
4. warm.
calcium, nitrogen, and uric acid in animals?
11 . A correct statement regarding amiodarone, a 1. Toluene
common class III antiarrhythmic agent, is that it: 2. Acetic acid
1. has a low iodine content. 3. Chloroform
2. metabolizes to desethylamiodarone in dogs. 4. Hydrochloric acid
3. blocks slow-moving sodium channels.
18 . Which of the following types of anticestodal drugs
4. is structurally related to carvedilol.
is used to eliminate the presence of most species
12 . A correct statement regarding the use of atracurium of tapeworms except Spirometra mansonoides and
as a muscle paralytic is it: Diphyllobothrium erinacei in dogs and cats?
1. does not cause a release of histamine. 1. Praziquantel
2. decreases intraocular pressure. 2. Niclosamide
3. does not cause sympathetic stimulation. 3. Bunamidine
4. is immediately effective. 4. Albendazole
13 . Technicians may occasionally care for cats 19 . A veterinary technician receives a frantic call
experiencing Key-Gaskell Syndrome. All the from a pet owner. From what the owner says, the
following statements are true regarding this technician concludes the owner’s dog has
condition except it: consciously collapsed with dyspnea. In which of
1. is also known as feline dysautonomia. the following categories of emergency should the
2. affects the autonomic nervous system. technician place the patient?
3. tends to appear in cats aged 3 years or older. 1. Nonemergency
4. affects more cats on the West Coast than the 2. Minor
East Coast. 3. Serious
4. Life threatening
14 . In a generally healthy patient, an anesthetic that is
administered intravenously will most likely take 20 . During which of the stages of anesthesia does the
effect within a few: patient react to external stimulus with a struggling
1. seconds. reflex?
2. minutes. 1. Stage 1
3. hours. 2. Stage 2
4. days. 3. Stage 3
4. Stage 4
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21 . Which of the following is a correct statement 26 . Which of the following statements is true about
regarding the collection of animal feces? patients undergoing anesthesia?
1. Better results come from feces collected 1. Very young patients should not fast for
from the ground or litter box than fresh long before anesthesia because they could
feces. become hypoglycemic.
2. It is best to collect feces before collecting 2. A dog in good health cannot consume food
urine to avoid contaminating the urine. or water for 12 hours before undergoing
3. Feces collection usually requires restraining surgery.
the animal so the process is uninterrupted. 3. Patients undergoing joint surgeries
4. If it is difficult to collect the feces, it should generally have to fast longer than patients
be forced out of the animal using lubricant. undergoing abdominal surgeries.
4. Most normal, healthy patient have to fast
22 . Thiacetarsamide sodium is most frequently used
for about 4 hours before they undergo
as treatment for:
surgery.
1. hookworms.
2. heartworms. 27 . Which of the following instruments would a
3. roundworms. surgeon use for ligation of stumps or pedicles?
4. tapeworms. 1. Halsted mosquito hemostatic forceps
2. Rochester-Carmalt hemostatic forceps
23 . Surgeons can use all the following types of powered
3. Doyen intestinal forceps
equipment in an operating room except a/an:
4. Babock intestinal forceps
1. oscillating saw.
2. pneumatic drill. 28 . Which of the following is a correct statement
3. electric drill. regarding subcutaneous injections?
4. rotary saw. 1. The effects are felt 15–20 minutes after the
injection.
24 . When performing colorimetric biological
2. This area contains a small supply of blood
determinations, veterinary technicians may
vessels.
notice an abnormal change in the color of plasma
3. The area below the skin’s surface has many
and serum due to high chromatin levels. When
nerves.
performing this test on a grazing animal, such as
4. Only nonirritant drugs should be
a dairy cow, technicians may notice serum and
administered this way.
plasma colored:
1. red. 29 . Within which part of an image-intensified
2. green. fluoroscopic system are X-rays converted into
3. yellow. visible light photons?
4. blue. 1. Output fluorescent screen
2. Image intensifier tube
25 . Which of the following muscles should veterinary
3. Electrostatic lenses
techniciansavoidduringintramuscularinjections?
4. Fluoroscopic tube
1. Quadriceps group
2. Gluteal muscles 30 . Which of the following anesthesia drugs is most
3. Triceps muscles often injected?
4. Lumbodorsal muscles 1. Isoflurane
2. Ether
3. Halothane
4. Morphine
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31 . A correct statement regarding a common dental 37 . The use of piperazine, an antinematodal agent, is
instrument called a curette is: recommended in all the following except:
1. it has two blades and one cutting edge. 1. cats.
2. it is used to remove subgigival calculus. 2. dogs.
3. it cannot be used for removal of soft tissue 3. pigs.
diseases. 4. cattle.
4. its cutting edges cannot be used on the back
38 . Technicians must often administer medications,
of the tooth.
such as a hypodermic injection, to patients. When
32 . While conducting wildlife research, scientists administering ahypodermic injection, a technician
may discover an animal, such as a wild bird, that may inject the drug using all the following routes
needs immediate medical attention. Which of the except:
following procedures would a surgeon be least 1. subcutaneous.
likely to perform on a wild animal? 2. intramuscular.
1. Laparotomy 3. intravenous.
2. Flight restraint 4. epidural.
3. Sterilization
39 . If an adult bovine has 32 teeth, what is the animal’s
4. Dental prophylaxis
dental formula?
33 . Hemolysis occurs when red blood cells break and 1. I0/6 C1/2 P3/6
release their contents into blood serum or plasma. 2. I6/6 C1/2 P3-4/3 M3/3
All the following are causes of in vitro hemolysis 3. I0/6 C0/2 P6/6 M6/6
except: 4. I3/6 C1/2 P4/8 M3/6
1. osmotic pressure.
40 . A correct statement regarding needle holders is:
2. the size of the needle.
1. they are not involved in metal-to-metal
3. the separation of plasma.
contact.
4. vigorous shaking of samples.
2. as they wear, they become blunt or dull.
34 . Which of the following is true about a Robert Jones 3. they are easily replaceable.
bandage? 4. large needle holders are required for
1. The bandage can last for up to a month. delicate sutures.
2. The bandage should always include the
41 . Generally, urine samples are collected and stored
toes.
in:
3. The bandage contains traction tape to
1. glass Vacutainers.
decrease slippage.
2. plastic Petri dishes.
4. The bandage does not require a large
3. plastic sample bottles.
quantity of cotton wool.
4. glass vials.
35 . The darkest, or least opaque, parts of an X-ray
42 . Which of the following dressings retains moisture
indicate the presence of:
within the wound?
1. gas.
1. Dry dressings
2. muscle.
2. Occlusive dressings
3. bone.
3. Hemostatic dressings
4. mineral.
4. Impregnated gauze dressings
36 . When administering an anesthetic to a horse
43 . When collecting cerebrospinal fluid, the area of the
intravenously, technicians inject the anesthetic
spine that veterinary technicians most frequently
into the:
tap is the:
1. jugular vein.
1. axis.
2. cephalic vein.
2. atlas.
3. saphenous vein.
3. occipital bone.
4. mesenteric vein.
4. atlanto-occipital joint.
1 . Alpha-2 agonists, used therapeutically, decrease 5 . All the following are true of veterinarian-client-
cardiac output in most animals. This decrease is patient relationships except:
due to: 1. the client and owner of the patient should
1. decreased afterload. be skeptical of the veterinarian.
2. coronary vasoconstriction. 2. the veterinarian should regularly visit
3. high catecholamine levels. animals in the clinic or in the field.
4. increased myocardial oxygen consumption. 3. the client and owner of the patient should
be honest with the veterinarian.
2 . Which of the following is a reason geriatric patients
4. the veterinarian should be on-call and
should be scheduled for surgery before young
available in the event of an emergency.
patients?
1. Young patients become stressed more 6 . Which of the following is a major disadvantage in
easily. performing fluoroscopic studies on animals?
2. Geriatric patients take longer to recover. 1. These studies are often expensive, so
3. Young patients need to eat more often. owners choose not to consent to testing.
4. Geriatric patients do not have to drink so 2. These studies’ images can be saved in a
often. variety of ways, including videotape.
3. These studies expose veterinary personnel
3 . Which teeth are primarily used for cutting, shearing, to radiation.
and holding? 4. These studies replace angiographic
1. Premolars catheters.
2. Incisors
3. Molars 7 . Veterinary technicians may use the tape technique
4. Canines to examine an area of skin for all the following
except:
4 . Which of the following is a correct statement 1. bacteria.
concerning tissue samples? 2. ringworm.
1. Once removed from the animal, tissue 3. Malassezia.
immediately starts to die. 4. surface mites.
2. The process of autolysis is accelerated by
8 . After surgical equipment is sterilized, it is packaged
cool temperatures.
and stored. Items can become unsterile if they are
3. Fixing tissues hastens the deterioration of
not stored or handled properly. Which of the
cell membranes.
following surgical items is still sterile?
4. Tissues for standard histological
1. The item was stored in a humid area, and
examination should be frozen.
the packing is now wet.
2. A technician pulled back the packing
without touching the paper to the
instrument.
3. The item was stored in a pack that was
punctured by another instrument.
4. A technician pulled back the packing and
touched the item with his forearm.
127
,128
9 . All the following statements about general 15 . Veterinary medical teams wish to meet four goals
toxicology specimens are true except: when anesthetizing a patient for ophthalmic
1. They should not be washed or submitted to surgery. These include all the following except to:
extraneous contamination. 1. provide a mobile eye.
2. They should be submitted in leak-proof and 2. provide a pain-free recovery.
sterile glass or plastic containers. 3. support cardiopulmonary function.
3. They should be collected fresh and then 4. avoid increases in intraocular pressure.
delivered to the lab frozen.
16 . A correct statement concerning a Michel’s trephine
4. They should not be individually labeled;
is it is:
only the largest containers need labels.
1. most often used for bone biopsies.
10 . Many veterinary clinics do not line kennel floors 2. able to cut a square hole through bone.
with newspapers because newspapers are not: 3. only available in one diameter.
1. readily available. 4. battery or electric-power operated.
2. easily disposable.
17 . Which of the following urine preservatives is used
3. absorbent.
for biochemical analyses of urea, ammonia,
4. warm.
calcium, nitrogen, and uric acid in animals?
11 . A correct statement regarding amiodarone, a 1. Toluene
common class III antiarrhythmic agent, is that it: 2. Acetic acid
1. has a low iodine content. 3. Chloroform
2. metabolizes to desethylamiodarone in dogs. 4. Hydrochloric acid
3. blocks slow-moving sodium channels.
18 . Which of the following types of anticestodal drugs
4. is structurally related to carvedilol.
is used to eliminate the presence of most species
12 . A correct statement regarding the use of atracurium of tapeworms except Spirometra mansonoides and
as a muscle paralytic is it: Diphyllobothrium erinacei in dogs and cats?
1. does not cause a release of histamine. 1. Praziquantel
2. decreases intraocular pressure. 2. Niclosamide
3. does not cause sympathetic stimulation. 3. Bunamidine
4. is immediately effective. 4. Albendazole
13 . Technicians may occasionally care for cats 19 . A veterinary technician receives a frantic call
experiencing Key-Gaskell Syndrome. All the from a pet owner. From what the owner says, the
following statements are true regarding this technician concludes the owner’s dog has
condition except it: consciously collapsed with dyspnea. In which of
1. is also known as feline dysautonomia. the following categories of emergency should the
2. affects the autonomic nervous system. technician place the patient?
3. tends to appear in cats aged 3 years or older. 1. Nonemergency
4. affects more cats on the West Coast than the 2. Minor
East Coast. 3. Serious
4. Life threatening
14 . In a generally healthy patient, an anesthetic that is
administered intravenously will most likely take 20 . During which of the stages of anesthesia does the
effect within a few: patient react to external stimulus with a struggling
1. seconds. reflex?
2. minutes. 1. Stage 1
3. hours. 2. Stage 2
4. days. 3. Stage 3
4. Stage 4
,129
21 . Which of the following is a correct statement 26 . Which of the following statements is true about
regarding the collection of animal feces? patients undergoing anesthesia?
1. Better results come from feces collected 1. Very young patients should not fast for
from the ground or litter box than fresh long before anesthesia because they could
feces. become hypoglycemic.
2. It is best to collect feces before collecting 2. A dog in good health cannot consume food
urine to avoid contaminating the urine. or water for 12 hours before undergoing
3. Feces collection usually requires restraining surgery.
the animal so the process is uninterrupted. 3. Patients undergoing joint surgeries
4. If it is difficult to collect the feces, it should generally have to fast longer than patients
be forced out of the animal using lubricant. undergoing abdominal surgeries.
4. Most normal, healthy patient have to fast
22 . Thiacetarsamide sodium is most frequently used
for about 4 hours before they undergo
as treatment for:
surgery.
1. hookworms.
2. heartworms. 27 . Which of the following instruments would a
3. roundworms. surgeon use for ligation of stumps or pedicles?
4. tapeworms. 1. Halsted mosquito hemostatic forceps
2. Rochester-Carmalt hemostatic forceps
23 . Surgeons can use all the following types of powered
3. Doyen intestinal forceps
equipment in an operating room except a/an:
4. Babock intestinal forceps
1. oscillating saw.
2. pneumatic drill. 28 . Which of the following is a correct statement
3. electric drill. regarding subcutaneous injections?
4. rotary saw. 1. The effects are felt 15–20 minutes after the
injection.
24 . When performing colorimetric biological
2. This area contains a small supply of blood
determinations, veterinary technicians may
vessels.
notice an abnormal change in the color of plasma
3. The area below the skin’s surface has many
and serum due to high chromatin levels. When
nerves.
performing this test on a grazing animal, such as
4. Only nonirritant drugs should be
a dairy cow, technicians may notice serum and
administered this way.
plasma colored:
1. red. 29 . Within which part of an image-intensified
2. green. fluoroscopic system are X-rays converted into
3. yellow. visible light photons?
4. blue. 1. Output fluorescent screen
2. Image intensifier tube
25 . Which of the following muscles should veterinary
3. Electrostatic lenses
techniciansavoidduringintramuscularinjections?
4. Fluoroscopic tube
1. Quadriceps group
2. Gluteal muscles 30 . Which of the following anesthesia drugs is most
3. Triceps muscles often injected?
4. Lumbodorsal muscles 1. Isoflurane
2. Ether
3. Halothane
4. Morphine
, 130
31 . A correct statement regarding a common dental 37 . The use of piperazine, an antinematodal agent, is
instrument called a curette is: recommended in all the following except:
1. it has two blades and one cutting edge. 1. cats.
2. it is used to remove subgigival calculus. 2. dogs.
3. it cannot be used for removal of soft tissue 3. pigs.
diseases. 4. cattle.
4. its cutting edges cannot be used on the back
38 . Technicians must often administer medications,
of the tooth.
such as a hypodermic injection, to patients. When
32 . While conducting wildlife research, scientists administering ahypodermic injection, a technician
may discover an animal, such as a wild bird, that may inject the drug using all the following routes
needs immediate medical attention. Which of the except:
following procedures would a surgeon be least 1. subcutaneous.
likely to perform on a wild animal? 2. intramuscular.
1. Laparotomy 3. intravenous.
2. Flight restraint 4. epidural.
3. Sterilization
39 . If an adult bovine has 32 teeth, what is the animal’s
4. Dental prophylaxis
dental formula?
33 . Hemolysis occurs when red blood cells break and 1. I0/6 C1/2 P3/6
release their contents into blood serum or plasma. 2. I6/6 C1/2 P3-4/3 M3/3
All the following are causes of in vitro hemolysis 3. I0/6 C0/2 P6/6 M6/6
except: 4. I3/6 C1/2 P4/8 M3/6
1. osmotic pressure.
40 . A correct statement regarding needle holders is:
2. the size of the needle.
1. they are not involved in metal-to-metal
3. the separation of plasma.
contact.
4. vigorous shaking of samples.
2. as they wear, they become blunt or dull.
34 . Which of the following is true about a Robert Jones 3. they are easily replaceable.
bandage? 4. large needle holders are required for
1. The bandage can last for up to a month. delicate sutures.
2. The bandage should always include the
41 . Generally, urine samples are collected and stored
toes.
in:
3. The bandage contains traction tape to
1. glass Vacutainers.
decrease slippage.
2. plastic Petri dishes.
4. The bandage does not require a large
3. plastic sample bottles.
quantity of cotton wool.
4. glass vials.
35 . The darkest, or least opaque, parts of an X-ray
42 . Which of the following dressings retains moisture
indicate the presence of:
within the wound?
1. gas.
1. Dry dressings
2. muscle.
2. Occlusive dressings
3. bone.
3. Hemostatic dressings
4. mineral.
4. Impregnated gauze dressings
36 . When administering an anesthetic to a horse
43 . When collecting cerebrospinal fluid, the area of the
intravenously, technicians inject the anesthetic
spine that veterinary technicians most frequently
into the:
tap is the:
1. jugular vein.
1. axis.
2. cephalic vein.
2. atlas.
3. saphenous vein.
3. occipital bone.
4. mesenteric vein.
4. atlanto-occipital joint.
