Phobias Quiz Multiple Choice Questions
Phobias Quiz Questions
1. Cynophobia is the extreme fear of which animals?
A. Cats
B. Dogs
C. Chickens
Answer: B. Dogs
2. Which of the following phobias causes an intense fear of sleep?
A. Omphalophobia
B. Dextrophobia
C. Somniphobia
Answer: C. Somniphobia
3. Which of the following physical symptoms is common when you experience a phobia?
A. Rapid heartbeat
B. Fever
C. Stomach ache
Answer: A. Rapid heartbeat
4. Which of the following situations can make a person with germaphobia feel extremely anxious?
A. Looking down from a high building
B. Shaking hands with other people
C. Touching a snake
Answer: B. Shaking hands with other people
5. Which of the following fictional characters has fears of growing old, also known as gerascophobia?
A. Peter Pan
B. Harry Potter
C. Sherlock Holmes
Answer: A. Peter Pan
6. What is acrophobia?
A. A fear of heights
B. A fear of enclosed spaces
C. A fear of ocean
Answer: A. A fear of heights
7. What is aviophobia?
A. A fear of driving
B. A fear of swimming
C. A fear of flying
Answer: C. A fear of flying
8. The English actor Martin Freeman has revealed that he has a fear of which fruit because he thinks he would choke on the stone?
A. Mangos
B. Kiwis
C. Avocados
Answer: C. Avocados
9. If you had a fear of the number one, which type of phobia you have?
A. Dyphobia
B. Henophobia
C. Triskaphobia
Answer: B. Henophobia
10. If you had agoraphobia, you may be afraid of doing what?
A. Eating vegetables
B. Leaving home
C. Using a computer
Answer: B. Leaving home
11. You may want to avoid which of the following areas if you had xylophobia?
A. Forests
B. Crowded places
C. Lakes
Answer: A. Forests
12. A person may not have a meaningful romantic relationship or have an interesting date if he or she had which of the following phobias?
A. Philophobia
B. Notiphobia
C. Lockiophobia
Answer: A. Philophobia
13. What is the name of the fear of phobias itself?
A. Phophobia
B. Phobophobia
C. Phobiaphobia
Answer: B. Phobophobia
14. Podophobia causes people to have extreme anxiety when they are exposed to which part of the body?
A. Hands
B. Hair
C. Feet
Answer: C. Feet
15. What is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?
A. A fear of long stories
B. A fear of long sentences
C. A fear of long words
Answer: C. A fear of long words
16. Which of the following phobias refers to the fear of losing your phone?
A. Mobophobia
B. Phonophobia
C. Nomophobia
Answer: C. Nomophobia
17. In the novel “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes, the character of the same name has pragmatophobia. What does it mean?
A. A fear of romance
B. A fear of reality
C. A fear of imagination
Answer: B. A fear of reality
18. Which of the following phobias is different from the other twos?
A. Metathesiophobia
B. Gynophobia
C. Gerontophobia
Answer: A. Metathesiophobia
19. Which type of phobia causes people to feel anxious or faint when seeing blood?
A. Hemophobia
B. Hydrophobia
C. Leukophobia
Answer: A. Hemophobia
20. What is the other name for social phobia?
A. Social anxiety disorder
B. Social withdrawal disorder
C. Social fear disorder
Answer: A. Social anxiety disorder
21. What of the following may you try to avoid if you had xenophobia?
A. Loud noises
B. Foreign people
C. Spicy food
Answer: B. Foreign people
22. People with melanophobia may have an intense fear of which color?
A. Black
B. White
C. Green
Answer: A. Black
23. Anthophobia, which causes a fear of flowers, is typically related to which type of phobia?
A. Entomophobia, a fear of insects
B. Chromophobia, a fear of colors
C. Mysophobia, a fear of germs and dirt
Answer: A. Entomophobia, a fear of insects
24. Which of the following is one of the most common phobias in the world?
A. Dystychiphobia, a fear of accidents
B. Heliophobia, a fear of the sun
C. Arachnophobia, a fear of spiders
Answer: C. Arachnophobia, a fear of spiders
25. Which of the following phobias is a subcategory of herpetophobia, which causes a fear of reptiles?
A. Astraphobia
B. Ophidiophobia
C. Mysophobia
Answer: B. Ophidiophobia
26. Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Alexander the Great all had which type of phobia in common?
A. Ailurophobia, a fear of cats
B. Cynophobia, a fear of dogs
C. Ornithophobia, a fear of birds
Answer: A. Ailurophobia, a fear of cats
27. What may cause a person with cherophobia to feel anxious?
A. Being too happy
B. Being too sad
C. Being too jealous
Answer: A. Being too happy
28. Samhainophobia is a fear of which popular celebration?
A. Christmas
B. Halloween
C. Easter
Answer: B. Halloween
29. A person with scolionophobia may not want to go to which of the following place?
A. Office
B. Supermarket
C. School
Answer: C. School
30. What is selenophobia?
A. A fear of the sun
B. A fear of the moon
C. A fear of the stars
Answer: B. A fear of the moon
31. What is pyrophobia?
A. A fear of water
B. A fear of fire
C. A fear of sand
Answer: B. A fear of fire
32. Which of the following terms refers to the fear of children?
A. Pedophobia
B. Venustraphobia
C. Androphobia
Answer: A. Pedophobia
33. What is bibliophobia?
A. A fear of books
B. A fear of TVs
C. A fear of medications
Answer: A. A fear of books