Facial Expression Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Someone hears a sudden crash behind them. Their eyebrows rise, their eyes widen, and their jaw drops briefly without strong lip tension. Which emotion does this most closely resemble?
Surprise
Disgust
Sadness
Anger
2. Two faces both look tense. One has lowered, drawn-together brows and firmly pressed lips; the other has a wrinkled nose and raised upper lip. What does the first face more closely suggest?
Disgust
Surprise
Anger
Happiness
3. An actor wants to portray sadness using facial cues alone. Which combination would best match the conventional pattern?
Wrinkle the nose and raise the upper lip
Lower the eyebrows and press the lips firmly together
Widen the eyes and drop the jaw
Raise the inner eyebrows and pull the lip corners downward
4. A face shows raised inner eyebrows, slightly lowered eyes, and lip corners turned downward. Which basic emotion best matches this pattern?
Sadness
Disgust
Fear
Anger
5. Fear and surprise can both involve widened eyes. Which additional pattern more strongly supports fear rather than surprise?
Raised cheeks with upward lip corners
Raised inner brows with downward lip corners
A wrinkled nose with a raised upper lip
Brows raised but drawn together, with lips stretched horizontally
6. During a quiet meeting, a book suddenly falls from a shelf. A listener briefly raises curved eyebrows, widens their eyes, and opens their mouth. Which emotion category is the closest match?
Sadness
Anger
Surprise
Disgust
7. A person tastes spoiled milk and immediately wrinkles their nose while raising their upper lip. Which category best fits the expression?
Fear
Surprise
Disgust
Sadness
8. A person’s mouth forms a smile. Which added cue more strongly supports an enjoyment-style smile rather than a mouth-only posed smile?
The inner eyebrows rise and draw together
The upper lip rises while the nose wrinkles
The eyebrows lower while the lips remain tense
The cheeks lift and the muscles near the outer eye corners tighten
9. A character sees an approaching threat. Their eyebrows rise and pull together, their eyes widen, and their lips stretch toward the sides. Which emotion is being portrayed?
Anger
Fear
Surprise
Sadness
10. Which description best matches the conventional facial pattern for fear?
Lowered eyebrows, narrowed eyes, and tightly pressed lips
Raised, drawn-together eyebrows, widened eyes, and lips stretched toward the sides
Wrinkled nose, raised upper lip, and lifted cheeks
Raised cheeks, relaxed brow, and upward lip corners
11. Which emotion is conventionally linked with a wrinkled nose and a raised upper lip?
Disgust
Sadness
Anger
Surprise
12. Someone enters a room with a strong rotten-food odor. Which facial response most closely fits disgust?
Raised, drawn-together brows and horizontally stretched lips
A wrinkled nose and raised upper lip
Upward lip corners and raised cheeks
A dropped jaw with high, curved eyebrows
13. Which facial configuration most closely matches anger?
Raised curved eyebrows, widened eyes, and a dropped jaw
Raised cheeks and upward-pulled lip corners
Lowered, drawn-together eyebrows with tense or pressed lips
Raised inner eyebrows and downward-pulled lip corners
14. You notice that someone’s mouth is open, but you cannot see their eyes or eyebrows and know nothing about the situation. What is the best conclusion?
The person is surprised
The person is afraid
The person is happy
The cue is insufficient because an open mouth can occur in several expressions and actions
15. In the conventional six-emotion framework, which emotion is most associated with raised cheeks and lip corners pulled upward?
Surprise
Happiness
Fear
Anger
16. Why should facial cues be interpreted with context rather than treated as certain proof of emotion?
Culture, individual habits, deliberate expressions, and the surrounding situation can affect what a facial movement means
The mouth alone reliably reveals emotion, while the rest of the face adds little information
A conventional expression always identifies the exact event that caused the feeling
Each basic emotion always appears differently in every person, so shared patterns do not exist