R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Pharmacist Qualifying Examination[PEBC-Canada] Pharmaceutics-I Mcq Set. 2

A lesser dose is required if the drug is given by,

1. Oral route.
2. Topical route
3. Intravenous route.
4. None of the above.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Reduction in particle size increases absorption because it,

1. Reduces interaction with food molecules.
2. Increases interaction with food molecules.
3. Reduces effective surface area.
4. Increases effective surface area.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The schedule of dosing ( four times a day, two times a day etc.) is called,

1. Dose inspection.
2. Dose regimen
3. Dose calibration.
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

.Doses of children’s are calculated by Young’s formula, which formula is right.

1. Adult Dose (mg/day) x [Age / (Age+12)]
2. Adult Dose (gm/day) x [Age / (Age+24)]
3. Adult Dose (mg/day) x [Wt in Kg / (Age+12)]
4. Adult Dose (mg/day) x [Wt in Kg / (Age+24)]

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Clark’s formula to calculate pediatric dose uses body wt in pounds, which of the following formula is correct representation,

1. Adult Dose (gm/day) x (Child Weight in Lbs /150)
2. Adult Dose (mg/day) x (Child Weight in Lbs /150)
3. Adult Dose (mg/day) x (Child Weight in Lbs /250)
4. Adult Dose (gm/day) x (Child Weight in Lbs /250)

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Pediatric dose can be calculated by considering child’s,

1. Age.
2. Body Weight
3. Body Surface area
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The date on prescription tells us,

1. Date of writing the prescription
2. Date of presentation of prescription
3. Name of patient
4. Both a & b.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

There are..........types of Incompatibilities.

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Liquefaction is the example of..............incompatibility

1. Immediate
2. Delayed
3. Instantaneous
4. Both A and B

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Physical change may almost be............

1. Visible
2. Invisible
3. Turbid
4. No change

✅ Correct Answer: 1

When substances with low melting points such as camphor ae triturated together a liquid mixture is formed the phenomenon is called ------

1. Liquefaction
2. Insolubility
3. Herapath formation
4. Eutectic mixture formation

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Strategy to correct eutectic mixture formation is

1. Dispense ingredients separately
2. Mix ingredients separately with suitable adsorbent like kaolin and finally mix together.
3. Both A & B
4. Only B

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Immiscibility of oil and water can be overcome by,

1. Formulating an emulsion
2. Formulating suspension
3. Formulating an insufflation
4. Formulating an elixir

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Chemical incompatibility in which change in formulation is needed is called as,

1. Tolerated incompatibility
2. Adjusted incompatibility.
3. both (a) and (b)
4. None of These

✅ Correct Answer: 2

.Chemical incompatibility which can be reduced by using dilute solutions or simply changing the order of mixing is called,

1. Tolerated incompatibility.
2. Adjusted incompatibility.
3. both (a) and (b)
4. None of These

✅ Correct Answer: 1

.In the mixing of thymol and menthol the following type of incompatibility occurs,

1. Chemical incompatibility
2. Therapeutic incompatibility
3. Physical incompatibility
4. Tolerance incompatibility

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What type of emulsion is a w/o/w emulsion?

1. Primary emulsion
2. Micro-emulsion c
3. Multiple-emulsion
4. Monoemulsion

✅ Correct Answer: 3

.The tail of a surfactant molecule is oil-loving or known as ________

1. Hydrophilic
2. Lipophobic
3. Lipophilic
4. Hydrophilic

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Oil and Water is an example of a(n)...

1. Suspension
2. Emulsion
3. Colloid
4. Solution

✅ Correct Answer: 2

.In the stability of emulsion, which important instability step should be prevented?

1. Breaking
2. Coalescence
3. Flocculation
4. Creaming

✅ Correct Answer: 2

.Dye test which is used to identify type of emulsion in that which dye is used?

1. Scarlet red
2. Scarlet green
3. Crystal violet
4. Methylene blue

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In conductivity test, if bulb glows on passing electric current so what would be the type of emulsion?

1. W/O emulsion
2. O/W emulsion
3. Micro emulsion
4. Multiple emulsion

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In micro emulsion, the size of globules are__

1. 1 um
2. 0.1 um
3. 0.01 um
4. 10 um

✅ Correct Answer: 3

.In case of coalescence ___

1. Dispersed droplet does not fuse
2. Globules size decrease
3. No of globules increase
4. Dispersed droplets tend to fuse

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In case of O/W emulsion, creaming takes place at______

1. Down side
2. Upside
3. At interface between two phase
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is not an example of a water-in-oil emulsion?

1. Cod liver oil
2. Butter
3. Cold cream
4. Milk

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the difference between vanishing cream and cold cream?

1. Both are examples of oil-in-water emulsions
2. Vanishing cream is an oil-in-water emulsion whereas cold cream is a water-in-oil emulsion
3. Vanishing cream is a water-in-oil emulsion whereas cold cream is an oil-in-water emulsion
4. Both are examples of water-in-oil emulsions

✅ Correct Answer: 2

.Which of the following is not a method to test the type of emulsion?

1. Microscopic method
2. Conductance method
3. Coagulation method
4. Dye method

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following statements regarding emulsions is false?

1. Emulsions cannot be separated into their constituent liquids
2. Emulsions show Brownian motion c.
3. Emulsions show Tyndall effect
4. Emulsions exhibit properties like Electrophoresis and Coagulation

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is the dispersion of a liquid in another liquid called?

1. Gel
2. Foam
3. Emulsion
4. Aerosol

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Creaming is?

1. Reversible
2. Irreversible
3. Both
4. Difficult to predict

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Upward creaming is observed in?

1. W/O
2. O/W
3. Both
4. Micro

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Pharmaceutical suspensions are generally…

1. Flocculated
2. De-flocculated
3. Both
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Rate of sedimentation is high in?

1. Flocculated
2. De-flocculated
3. Both
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Cake formation is characteristic feature _

1. Flocculated
2. De- flocculated
3. Thixotropic suspension
4. Structured suspension

✅ Correct Answer: 2

For Ideal suspension ,the sedimentation volume should be

1. Zero
2. Equal to one
3. More than one
4. Less than one

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Suppository bases ___

1. Maintain shape
2. Helps in insertion into the body cavity
3. Theobroma oil is examp
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is NOT an ideal property of bases?

1. Shall be non-irritant
2. Shall be compatible with drugs
3. Shall not interfere in release
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is an advantage of suppositories?

1. Need to store at low temp.
2. Cost-expensive
3. Drug may be degraded by microbial
4. Can be given to unconscious patient

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is an example of Hydrophilic bases?

1. Hydrogenated oils
2. Emulsified cocoa butter
3. Glycero-gelatin base
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is an example of Oily bases?

1. Witespol
2. Emulsified cocoa butter
3. Glycero-gelatin base
4. Massupol

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is an example of Synthetic base?

1. Witespol
2. Emulsified cocoa butter
3. Glycero-gelatin base
4. Hydrogenated oils

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is NOT an example of Hydrophilic bases?

1. Soap-glycerin base
2. Emulsified cocoa butter
3. Glycero-gelatin base
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is substitute for Theobroma oil?

1. Emulsified cocoa
2. Hydrogenated oils
3. Polyethylene-Glycol
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

__ Powders consist of more than one ingredient.

1. Simple powders
2. Compound powders
3. Both
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

. Which of the following step in the preparation of powders is very often used?

1. Preparation of wrapping paper
2. Preparation of material
3. Wrapping
4. Double wrapping

✅ Correct Answer: 4

_____ Powder must be sterile.

1. Medical Powder
2. Surgical powder
3. both (a) and (b)
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

_______ are the finely divided powder meant for introduction into the body cavities.

1. Dusting powder
2. Insufflation
3. Inhalation
4. Medical powder

✅ Correct Answer: 1

____ contains one water molecule that acts as binder in fusion method for making effervescent granules.

1. Citric Acid
2. Tartaric Acid
3. Benzoic Acid
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Methods of granules formation

1. Spatulation
2. Fusion method
3. Wet method
4. Both b and c

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Bases that are water-washable, non-greasy, can be diluted with water, non-occlusive

1. Water soluble Bases
2. Water insoluble bases
3. Emulsifiable base
4. Water removable base

✅ Correct Answer: 1

From the below options which will be the most widely used form of dosage?

1. Emulsion
2. Solutions
3. Tablets
4. Powders

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Elixir contain

1. 40% glycerol
2. 5-40% alcohol
3. 66.7% sucrose
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Gargles must be _______ before use

1. Concentrated
2. Warmed
3. Diluted
4. Cooled

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Mandl’s Paint is also known as:

1. Compound Iodine throat paint
2. Aqueous Iodine solution
3. Strong Iodine solution
4. Lugol’s solution

✅ Correct Answer: 1

BID in pharmaceutical terms refers to which of the following?

1. Twice a day
2. Twice
3. Every other day
4. Three times a day

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Latin term "Infricandus" means the following dosage form,

1. to be sprayed on
2. to be rubbed in
3. to be swallowed
4. to be eaten

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Latin term "inhalateur" means the following,

1. To be rubbed
2. To be inhaled
3. To be applied
4. To be swallowed

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Latin term "Utendus" means the following,

1. To be used
2. Not to be used
3. both (a) and (b)
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Latin term "talis / tales / talia" means the following,

1. Such
2. Till
3. For
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Latin term "mitte" means the following,

1. Urgent
2. Send
3. Immediate
4. Attention

✅ Correct Answer: 2