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1. 1A person measures hearing and selects a device intended to compensate for hearing loss. Under Chapter 93D, what regulated activity is occurring?

   1. A. Fitting and selling hearing aids
   2. B. General retail merchandising
   3. C. Medical diagnosis
   4. D. Unregulated device repair

   Answer: A

   Explanation: G.S. 93D-1 defines "Fitting and selling hearing aids" to include hearing evaluation and consequent selection, adaptation, sale, authorization, ordering, rental, and ear impressions.

   Reference: Chapter 93D — G.S. 93D-1(2)

2. 2What client-interest instruction does North Carolina require regarding federal hearing-aid recommendations?

   1. A. Advise clients to take the prescribed federal recommended actions
   2. B. Tell clients that federal recommendations never apply
   3. C. Give federal recommendations only after a written complaint
   4. D. Refer every federal question to the device manufacturer

   Answer: A

   Explanation: The rule says licensees and apprentices "shall advise their clients to take the recommended actions as prescribed in 21 CFR 801."

   Reference: Oah Chapter 22 Rules — 21 NCAC 22I .0101

3. 3A qualifying door-to-door hearing-aid sale is completed in Spanish. In what language must the completed receipt or contract copy be furnished?

   1. A. English only
   2. B. Any language chosen later
   3. C. The language principally used in the oral sales presentation
   4. D. Latin

   Answer: C

   Explanation: 16 CFR 429.1(a) requires the receipt or contract copy to be "in the same language ... as that principally used in the oral sales presentation."

   Reference: Section 429 — § 429.1(a)

4. 4Which prior-wear circumstance does not by itself make a hearing aid used under the federal definition?

   1. A. A bona fide prospective-user evaluation conducted with the dispenser present
   2. B. A previous user's completed home trial
   3. C. A former owner's routine daily wear
   4. D. A prior purchaser's extended workplace wear

   Answer: A

   Explanation: A hearing aid is not used "merely because a prospective user wore it as part of a bona fide hearing aid evaluation" conducted in the specified presence.

   Reference: Section 801 — § 801.422(b), definition of Used hearing aid

5. 5Which device falls within Chapter 93D's definition of a hearing aid?

   1. A. An instrument represented as compensating for defective human hearing
   2. B. A device used only to inspect the ear canal
   3. C. An instrument used only for balance testing
   4. D. A sound meter used only for room noise

   Answer: A

   Explanation: A hearing aid is "Any instrument or device designed for or represented as aiding, improving or compensating for defective human hearing" and its parts or accessories.

   Reference: Chapter 93D — G.S. 93D-1(3)

6. 6What equipment condition must a North Carolina hearing test satisfy?

   1. A. Use an audiometer whose calibration is on file with the Board, or equivalent physiologic testing
   2. B. Use any consumer sound-level application without calibration
   3. C. Use only a tuning fork regardless of the test purpose
   4. D. Use an audiometer calibrated solely by the client

   Answer: A

   Explanation: The test must use "an audiometer, the calibration for which is on file at the Board office, or equivalent physiologic testing."

   Reference: Oah Chapter 22 Rules — 21 NCAC 22I .0103(b)

7. 7Until what point may the buyer cancel a covered door-to-door transaction?

   1. A. Midnight of the first business day
   2. B. Noon of the third calendar day
   3. C. Midnight of the fifth business day
   4. D. Midnight of the third business day

   Answer: D

   Explanation: The required disclosure says the buyer may cancel "prior to midnight of the third business day after the date of this transaction."

   Reference: Section 429 — § 429.1(a)

8. 8If a prescription hearing aid is used or rebuilt, what must its outside package disclose?

   1. A. Only its battery chemistry
   2. B. That used or rebuilt condition
   3. C. Only its wireless protocol
   4. D. The purchaser's diagnosis

   Answer: B

   Explanation: The outside package must declare the fact "If the prescription hearing aid is used or rebuilt."

   Reference: Section 801 — § 801.422(c)(1)(ii)

9. 9May a North Carolina hearing aid specialist order the use of a prescription hearing aid without an order from another healthcare provider?

   1. A. Yes, this is within the statutory scope
   2. B. Only after a court order
   3. C. Only for an over-the-counter device
   4. D. No, another provider must always authorize it

   Answer: A

   Explanation: The scope includes "Ordering the use of, authorizing, fitting, and selling prescription hearing aids ... without requiring a consumer to first obtain an order or authorization from another healthcare provider."

   Reference: Chapter 93D — G.S. 93D-1.1(1)

10. 10Which pair must the required speech-audiometry portion of testing include?

    1. A. Speech reception threshold and speech discrimination testing
    2. B. Tympanometry and acoustic reflex decay
    3. C. Otoacoustic emissions and electrocochleography
    4. D. Auditory brainstem response and vestibular testing

    Answer: A

    Explanation: The required speech audiometry includes "speech reception threshold testing and speech discrimination testing."

    Reference: Oah Chapter 22 Rules — 21 NCAC 22I .0103(d)(1)