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This quiz covers questions related to human anatomy, specifically focusing on the leg's structures, nerves, and muscles. It includes multiple choice questions, designed likely for undergraduate education in a medical field.

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1. **Which structure is NOT found within the popliteal fossa?** - A) Popliteal artery - B) Tibial nerve - C) Saphenous vein - D) Femoral artery **Correct Answer: D** 2. **What is the most deeply located structure in the popliteal fossa?** - A) Popliteal artery - B) Popliteal vein -...

1. **Which structure is NOT found within the popliteal fossa?** - A) Popliteal artery - B) Tibial nerve - C) Saphenous vein - D) Femoral artery **Correct Answer: D** 2. **What is the most deeply located structure in the popliteal fossa?** - A) Popliteal artery - B) Popliteal vein - C) Tibial nerve - D) Common fibular nerve **Correct Answer: A** 3. **The popliteal artery divides into which two arteries?** - A) Anterior and posterior tibial arteries - B) Femoral and tibial arteries - C) Superior and inferior genicular arteries - D) Lateral and medial plantar arteries **Correct Answer: A** 4. **The tibial nerve passes deep to which muscle's tendinous arch?** - A) Gastrocnemius - B) Soleus - C) Plantaris - D) Popliteus **Correct Answer: B** 5. **The sural nerve supplies the skin over which part of the leg?** - A) Medial - B) Anterior - C) Inferolateral - D) Superior **Correct Answer: C** 6. **Which artery participates in the arterial anastomosis around the knee joint?** - A) Posterior tibial artery - B) Anterior tibial artery - C) Fibular artery - D) Circumflex fibular artery **Correct Answer: D** 7. **What is the function of the flexor hallucis longus?** - A) Extension of the great toe - B) Flexion of the great toe - C) Dorsiflexion of the foot - D) Eversion of the foot **Correct Answer: B** 8. **Where does the anterior tibial artery become superficial?** - A) Upper third of the leg - B) Middle third of the leg - C) Distal third of the leg - D) Ankle **Correct Answer: C** 9. **Which nerve supplies the tibialis anterior muscle?** - A) Tibial nerve - B) Superficial fibular nerve - C) Deep fibular nerve - D) Saphenous nerve **Correct Answer: C** 10. **Which muscle is NOT a part of the deep group in the posterior compartment of the leg?** - A) Flexor digitorum longus - B) Flexor hallucis longus - C) Tibialis posterior - D) Gastrocnemius **Correct Answer: D** 11. **What is the origin of the fibularis longus muscle?** - A) Tibial surface - B) Lateral surface of head and shaft of fibula - C) Medial cuneiform - D) Base of the first metatarsal **Correct Answer: B** 12. **Which structure passes through the tarsal tunnel?** - A) Tendon of fibularis brevis - B) Posterior tibial artery - C) Anterior tibial artery - D) Tendon of tibialis anterior **Correct Answer: B** 13. **What is the main action of the tibialis posterior muscle?** - A) Dorsiflexion of the foot - B) Inversion of the foot - C) Eversion of the foot - D) Flexion of the toes **Correct Answer: B** 14. **Which nerve supplies the lateral compartment muscles of the leg?** - A) Deep fibular nerve - B) Superficial fibular nerve - C) Tibial nerve - D) Sural nerve **Correct Answer: B** 15. **What is the function of the popliteus muscle?** - A) Extension of the knee - B) Flexion of the knee - C) Unlocking the knee joint - D) Plantar flexion of the foot **Correct Answer: C** 16. **The extensor digitorum longus is involved in the extension of which toes?** - A) Great toe - B) Lateral four toes - C) Medial three toes - D) All five toes **Correct Answer: B** 17. **Where does the tibialis anterior insert?** - A) Lateral cuneiform - B) Base of the fifth metatarsal - C) Medial cuneiform and base of the first metatarsal - D) Tuberosity of the fifth metatarsal **Correct Answer: C** 18. **Which nerve is responsible for the cutaneous innervation of the inferolateral part of the leg?** - A) Tibial nerve - B) Superficial fibular nerve - C) Sural nerve - D) Saphenous nerve **Correct Answer: C** 19. **Which muscle's tendon passes through the tarsal tunnel?** - A) Flexor hallucis longus - B) Extensor digitorum longus - C) Fibularis tertius - D) Tibialis anterior **Correct Answer: A** 20. **The lateral dorsal cutaneous nerve is a continuation of which nerve?** - A) Tibial nerve - B) Superficial fibular nerve - C) Sural nerve - D) Saphenous nerve **Correct Answer: C** 21. **What artery can be palpated halfway between the heel and medial malleolus?** - A) Anterior tibial artery - B) Posterior tibial artery - C) Dorsalis pedis artery - D) Fibular artery **Correct Answer: B** 22. **Which muscle in the posterior compartment of the leg is most medially located?** - A) Tibialis posterior - B) Flexor digitorum longus - C) Flexor hallucis longus - D) Soleus **Correct Answer: B** 23. **Which nerve is commonly injured near the neck of the fibula?** - A) Tibial nerve - B) Deep fibular nerve - C) Superficial fibular nerve - D) Common fibular nerve **Correct Answer: D** 24. **The lateral sural cutaneous nerve is a branch of which nerve?** - A) Tibial nerve - B) Common fibular nerve - C) Superficial fibular nerve - D) Deep fibular nerve **Correct Answer: B** 25. **What structure is located in the popliteal fossa and is continuous with the fascia lata?** - A) Deep fascia - B) Crural fascia - C) Popliteal fascia - D) Plantar fascia **Correct Answer: C** 26. **The genicular arteries are branches of which artery?** - A) Femoral artery - B) Popliteal artery - C) Anterior tibial artery - D) Posterior tibial artery **Correct Answer: B** 27. **Which of the following is NOT a function of the tibial nerve?** - A) Innervation of the triceps surae - B) Sensory innervation to the medial side of the foot - C) Motor innervation to the muscles of the anterior compartment of the leg - D) Sensory innervation to the heel **Correct Answer: C** 28. **The flexor retinaculum is located on which side of the ankle?** - A) Anterior - B) Lateral - C) Medial - D) Posterior **Correct Answer: C** 29. **Which muscle assists in the unlocking of the knee joint?** - A) Soleus - B) Gastrocnemius - C) Plantaris - D) Popliteus **Correct Answer: D** 30. **What is the innervation of the fibularis tertius muscle?** - A) Superficial fibular nerve - B) Tibial nerve - C) Deep fibular nerve - D) Sural nerve **Correct Answer: C** 31. **What is the action of the fibularis longus muscle?** - A) Plantar flexion and inversion - B) Plantar flexion and eversion - C) Dorsiflexion and inversion - D) Dorsiflexion and eversion **Correct Answer: B** 32. **What artery is located between the tibialis anterior and extensor digitorum longus muscles?** - A) Anterior tibial artery - B) Posterior tibial artery - C) Dorsalis pedis artery - D) Fibular artery **Correct Answer: A** 33. **The tendon of which muscle runs in a groove on the inferior surface of the cuboid bone?** - A) Tibialis anterior - B) Fibularis longus - C) Extensor hallucis longus - D) Flexor digitorum longus **Correct Answer: B** 34. **What nerve accompanies the posterior tibial artery?** - A) Tibial nerve - B) Superficial fibular nerve - C) Sural nerve - D) Deep fibular nerve **Correct Answer: A** 35. **Which of the following muscles is located in the anterior compartment of the leg?** - A) Gastrocnemius - B) Flexor digitorum longus - C) Tibialis anterior - D) Soleus **Correct Answer: C** 36. **The deep fibular nerve provides innervation to which group of muscles?** - A) Anterior compartment of the leg - B) Posterior compartment of the leg - C) Lateral compartment of the leg - D) Intrinsic muscles of the foot **Correct Answer: A** 37. **What is the primary function of the extensor hallucis longus?** - A) Extension of the great toe - B) Extension of the lateral four toes - C) Dorsiflexion of the foot - D) Eversion of the foot **Correct Answer: A** 38. **Which artery is the continuation of the anterior tibial artery?** - A) Posterior tibial artery - B) Dorsalis pedis artery - C) Fibular artery - D) Plantar arteries **Correct Answer: B** 39. **Which nerve supplies the skin of the upper lateral part of the leg?** - A) Superficial fibular nerve - B) Saphenous nerve - C) Lateral sural cutaneous nerve - D) Tibial nerve **Correct Answer: C** 40. **Which structure lies deepest in the posterior aspect of the leg?** - A) Posterior tibial artery - B) Posterior tibial vein - C) Tibial nerve - D) Flexor hallucis longus tendon **Correct Answer: A** 41. **Which of the following muscles is innervated by the tibial nerve?** - A) Tibialis anterior - B) Fibularis longus - C) Gastrocnemius - D) Extensor digitorum longus **Correct Answer: C** 42. **Which muscle in the leg is most deeply located?** - A) Flexor digitorum longus - B) Tibialis posterior - C) Flexor hallucis longus - D) Popliteus **Correct Answer: B** 43. **The fibular artery supplies which compartment of the leg?** - A) Anterior - B) Posterior - C) Lateral - D) All of the above **Correct Answer: C** 44. **What nerve innervates the lateral compartment of the leg?** - A) Superficial fibular nerve - B) Deep fibular nerve - C) Tibial nerve - D) Saphenous nerve **Correct Answer: A** 45. **What is the action of the flexor digitorum longus?** - A) Flexion of the great toe - B) Extension of the lateral four toes - C) Flexion of the lateral four toes - D) Extension of the great toe **Correct Answer: C** 46. **Which muscle is located immediately deep to the gastrocnemius?** - A) Soleus - B) Plantaris - C) Tibialis posterior - D) Popliteus **Correct Answer: A** 47. **The tendon of the fibularis brevis muscle attaches to which bone?** - A) First metatarsal - B) Fifth metatarsal - C) Navicular - D) Calcaneus **Correct Answer: B** 48. **Which of the following muscles is NOT part of the triceps surae?** - A) Gastrocnemius - B) Soleus - C) Plantaris - D) Flexor hallucis longus **Correct Answer: D** 49. **What is the function of the retinacula around the ankle?** - A) Provide blood supply to the foot - B) Prevent bowstringing of tendons - C) Serve as attachment points for muscles - D) Protect nerves and arteries **Correct Answer: B** 50. **Which artery runs alongside the deep fibular nerve in the anterior compartment of the leg?** - A) Anterior tibial artery - B) Posterior tibial artery - C) Fibular artery - D) Dorsalis pedis artery **Correct Answer: A**

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