COA Visual Assessment and Testing 2

Question 1

When testing visual acuity in a child using the Tumbling E chart, what does the child need to indicate?

Accepted Answer

The direction the 'legs' of the letter E are pointing

Answer

The letter that matches a card they are holding

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Whether the image is clear or blurry

Answer

The number of fingers the examiner is holding up

Question 2

What is the purpose of a pinhole occluder during visual acuity testing?

Accepted Answer

To determine whether reduced acuity is due to refractive error

Answer

To measure the size of the pupil

Answer

To assess peripheral visual field

Answer

To occlude the fellow eye during monocular testing

Question 3

The Ishihara color vision test primarily screens for deficiencies in which color axis?

Accepted Answer

Red-green defects (protan and deutan)

Answer

Blue-yellow (tritan) defects

Answer

Achromatic (complete color blindness)

Answer

UV light sensitivity

Question 4

A patient's near vision is tested with a near card and documented as J3 at 40 cm. What does this indicate?

Accepted Answer

The patient can read Jaeger size 3 text at 40 cm without correction

Answer

The patient needs a +3.00 add for near vision

Answer

The patient reads at 3 words per minute at 40 cm

Answer

The patient has 3 diopters of accommodative amplitude

Question 5

During confrontation visual field testing, the COA is seated opposite the patient at arm's length. Which technique is being used when the examiner wiggles a finger in each quadrant while the patient fixates on the examiner's nose?

Accepted Answer

Finger motion confrontation

Answer

Static perimetry

Answer

Kinetic perimetry

Answer

Finger counting confrontation

Question 6

Which of the following BEST describes the proper test distance for standard Snellen distance visual acuity testing?

Accepted Answer

20 feet (6 meters)

Answer

10 feet (3 meters)

Answer

14 inches (35 cm)

Answer

25 feet (7.5 meters)