Free CMI Practice Questions

Question 1

During ventricular ejection in a normal-heart animation, left ventricular pressure exceeds left atrial pressure. The mitral valve apparatus must move realistically. Which instruction correctly specifies the role of the papillary muscles?

Accepted Answer

Contract them to tension the chordae and prevent mitral leaflet prolapse into the atrium.

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Contract them to pull the mitral leaflets apart and enlarge the ventricular inflow opening.

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Relax them so the chordae become slack and allow the mitral leaflets to rise into the atrium.

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Contract them to pull on the aortic cusps and hold the ventricular outflow opening patent.

Question 2

An illustrator retains copyright in an anatomical plate but has granted a publisher exclusive worldwide print-textbook rights for three years, reserving all other uses. During that term, a different client requests the unchanged plate for an online-only course, with no print or downloadable edition. No confidentiality or other restrictions apply. How can the illustrator fulfill the new request without disturbing the first publisher's rights?

Accepted Answer

Grant a separate nonexclusive license for the requested online course.

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Defer the online license until the three-year print term ends.

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Convert the first publisher's exclusive license to a nonexclusive license.

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Obtain a sublicense for online use from the print-textbook publisher.

Question 3

A shaft sits inside an opaque housing. Its shoulder rests on the housing's front face, while its tip stops short of the bottom of a blind bore. One explanatory view must reveal both the shoulder contact and the tip clearance, with every component left in its assembled position. Select the view that exposes both relationships directly.

Accepted Answer

A longitudinal cutaway through the shared shaft and bore axis

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A transverse section through the shaft immediately behind the shoulder

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An exploded axial view of the withdrawn shaft

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An exterior end view along the shaft's axis

Question 4

A tissue reconstruction has columnar surface cells and nuclei at several heights. These appearances alone have left the illustrator uncertain between pseudostratified and truly stratified columnar epithelium. Which additional finding resolves that distinction in favor of pseudostratified epithelium?

Accepted Answer

Every epithelial cell contacts the basement membrane.

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The luminal cells are taller than they are wide.

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Nuclei occupy several overlapping rows through the tissue.

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Some basal cells do not extend to the luminal surface.

Question 5

While observing an operation from an approved position, a nonscrubbed illustrator sees their camera strap brush the sterile instrument-table drape. No team member appears to notice, and the operation is continuing. What is the illustrator's immediate responsibility?

Accepted Answer

Alert the surgical team to the contact immediately, without handling the drape or instruments.

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Wait for a pause in the procedure, then ask the circulator to inspect the contacted area.

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Cover the contacted area with a sterile towel before notifying the circulator about the contact.

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Leave the room to find the charge nurse and report the possible contamination away from the field.

Question 6

An intestinal-cell storyboard shows sodium and glucose entering through the same carrier while glucose accumulates against its concentration gradient. A separate sodium-potassium pump maintains the sodium gradient. The artist has attached an ATP-hydrolysis symbol to the glucose carrier. Which account of the energy source should replace that depiction?

Accepted Answer

Sodium's inward electrochemical gradient powers glucose uptake; ATP hydrolysis belongs at the separate pump.

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ATP is hydrolyzed at both transporters because each moves at least one substance against a gradient.

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The glucose gradient powers sodium entry, while the separate pump restores the glucose gradient.

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Both solutes undergo facilitated diffusion, so ATP use can be removed from the entire transport scheme.

Question 7

In an orthographic assembly drawing, two identical cylindrical rods have parallel axes and the same orientation. One rod lies farther from the viewer, but neither is partly hidden. A reviewer suggests making the farther rod thinner solely to indicate its greater depth. The geometric objection to that change is that:

Accepted Answer

Depth alone does not change projected diameter in an orthographic view.

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Only the farther rod's length, not its diameter, should diminish with depth.

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Both rods should taper toward a common vanishing point.

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The nearer rod should be enlarged while the farther rod stays unchanged.

Question 8

A publisher needs a raster version of a fully vector anatomical plate, 12 inches wide at 300 PPI, without changing the composition. The supplied export is 2,400 pixels wide. The approved vector master remains available, and the publisher does not accept upsampled raster files. Which production action most directly meets the specification while preserving the master's fine paths and lettering?

Accepted Answer

Export the vector master again at 3,600 pixels wide for the specified placement.

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Set the existing export to 300 PPI with resampling disabled.

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Upsample the existing export to 3,600 pixels, then sharpen its lettering.

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Suspend delivery and redraw the illustration on a larger canvas before making another export.

Question 9

For an ocular-movement plate, the right eye must turn horizontally from straight ahead toward the right temple while the head stays still. The label should identify the principal muscle producing this movement and its motor nerve. Which pairing belongs on the plate?

Accepted Answer

Lateral rectus - abducens nerve (VI)

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Medial rectus - oculomotor nerve (III)

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Superior oblique - trochlear nerve (IV)

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Lateral rectus - oculomotor nerve (III)

Question 10

Two adjacent teaching panels depict carcinoma in situ and invasive carcinoma of an epithelial surface. Both already show marked nuclear atypia and disordered epithelial maturation. To communicate invasion rather than simply more severe atypia, the second panel must additionally show:

Accepted Answer

Tumor cells extending through the basement membrane into underlying stroma

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A greater number of mitotic figures within the epithelial compartment

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A thicker epithelial compartment containing more crowded abnormal cells

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More pronounced variation in nuclear size among the abnormal epithelial cells

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