B. It secretes digestive enzymes.

C. It regulates the release of bile.

D. It reabsorbs water from chyme.
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9. What do you call the wavelike contraction
Schools Division of Ilocos Sur of the smooth muscles of digestive tract
LIDLIDDA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL pushes food in small sections through the
Lidlidda, Ilocos Sur gastro-intestinal tube?
SUMMATIVE TEST – DIGESTIVE SYSTEM A. mixing movement
B. parietal movement
Name: C. contractile movement
D. peristaltic movement
Grade & Section: Score:
10. If the liver is severely damaged,
Direction: Write the letter of the correct metabolism of which nutrients would be
answer before each number. most affected?
A. carbohydrates C. proteins
1. In what process do animals take in food
B. lipids D. All of the above
that provides energy and nutrients?
A. assimilation C. excretion
11. What is the most essential function of
B. digestion D. ingestion
the intestinal villi?
2. The process in which digested foods are A. pushes the fecal matter into the rectum
distributed into different parts of the body B. increases surface area for nutrient
cells are _______. absorption
A. assimilation C. excretion C. secretes serous fluid to decrease friction
B. digestion D. ingestion among the organs
D. secretes mucous to facilitate the
3. What is the process of turning food into movement of chyme via the
smaller molecules with the aid of enzymes? alimentary canal
A. churning C. chemical digestion
B. mastication D. mechanical digestion 12. Which of the following shows the correct
sequence of the processes
4. Where does the final stage in digestion of involved in the human digestive system?
food happen? A. assimilation, absorption, ingestion,
A. liver C. small intestine digestion, and egestion
B. mouth D. large intestine B. digestion, ingestion, assimilation, egestion
and absorption
5. What type of enzyme present in saliva C. egestion, absorption, digestion,
helps break down starch? assimilation and ingestion
A. amylase C. lipase D. ingestion, digestion, absorption,
B. lactase D. maltase assimilation and egestion

6. Which of the following breaks down food 13. What is the term for the food that is
into tinier pieces to begin mechanical chewed and mixed with saliva that turns
digestion? into a moist ball?
A. esophagus C. teeth A. bolus C. feces
B. stomach D. tongue B. chyme D. gastric juice

7. What organ system is responsible for 14. It is the process by which the nutrients
breaking down of large molecules into from the digested food move into the blood
smaller molecules and absorption of organic vessels passing through the lining of the
compounds needed by the body? small intestine.
A. circulatory system A. assimilation C. egestion
B. digestive system B. digestion D. elimination
C. Nervous system
D. respiratory system 15. Which of these substances is an enzyme
that digests protein in the stomach?
8. What is the main function of the large A. amylase C. pepsin
intestine? B. hydrochloric acid D. saliva
A. It breaks down hemoglobin.
16. The following organs are part of the 26. What aids the passage of food through
human digestive system the digestive tract?
EXCEPT: A. pull from the anus
A. mouth B. chemical absorption
B. esophagus C. movement of the cilia
C. small Intestine D. wavelike muscle contractions
D. gastrovascular cavity
27. What is the main work of the digestive
17. In which part of the digestive system system?
does the breaking down of food into tinier A. fights disease
pieces occur? B. regenerates cells
A. mouth C. small intestine C. breaks down food
B. stomach D. large Intestine D. distributes energy throughout the body

18. Which of the following helps in the 28. Which of the following is the correct
digestion of food in the mouth? order of the digestive tract?
A. amylase C. protease A. mouth → rectum → esophagus → rectum
B. bile D. saliva → anus → small intestine→ large intestine
B. mouth → stomach → esophagus →rectum
19. What enzyme aids the digestion of lipids → anus → small intestine→ large intestine
in the small intestine? C. mouth → esophagus → stomach → small
A. amylase C. lipase intestine → large intestine→ rectum → anus
B. gastric enzyme D. pepsin D. mouth → esophagus → stomach → small
intestine → anus→ large intestine → rectum
20. Which tiny structures line the internal
surface of the small intestine to increase 29. How do nutrients from digested food
its surface area for the absorption of reach the blood?
nutrients? A. by passing through the esophagus into
A. bile ducts C. salivary glands the blood
B. cilia D. villi B. by being absorbed into the blood through
the blood vessels
21. What is the largest internal organ of the C. by being absorbed into the blood through
human body? the walls of the lungs
A. heart C. liver D. by passing through the small intestine
B. gall bladder D. stomach into the large intestine, then
22. Which of the following is produced by the into the blood
liver?
A. amylase C. pepsin 30. What will happen to the undigested food
B. bile D. renin that pass through the digestive tract?
A. goes to the pancreas to await disposal
23. Which organ stores bile and pumps it B. enters to the stomach and await disposal
into duodenum? C. goes to small intestine and await disposal
A. appendix C. gall bladder D. moves down to the large intestine and
B. colon D. pancreas await disposal

24. What is the result of chemical digestion

of carbohydrates? Prepared by:
A. amino acid
B. bile MAY JOY A. VITORIO
C. fatty acids Teacher II
D. simple sugars

25. Where does absorption of nutrients Approved:

mostly occur?
A. stomach LUZVIMINDA R. ESCALONA
B. small intestine School Principal 1
C. large intestine
D. all the above