EXERCISES, LESSON 1
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the following exercises by marking the lettered response that
best answers the question or best completes the incomplete statement or by writing the
answer in the space provided.
After you have completed all the exercises, turn to "Solutions to Exercises" at the
end of the lesson and check your answers. For each exercise answered incorrectly,
reread the material referenced with the solution.
1.
You wish to locate specific information on the tests for purity of a particular
chemical substance. Select the title of the reference most likely to provide you
with this information.
a. Pharmaceutical Calculations by Stoklosa.
b. Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences.
c.
The United States Pharmacopeia and The National Formulary.
d. The Physicians' Desk Reference.
2.
You wish to locate specific information on the compounding of an ointment. Select
the title of the reference most likely to provide you with this information.
a. Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences.
b. The Physicians Desk Reference.
c.
Pharmaceutical Calculations by Stoklosa.
d. The United States Pharmacopeia and The National Formulary.
3.
Select the device you should use when adding or removing brass weights from a
balance:
a. #6 scapel.
b. Pestle.
c.
Fingers.
d. Forceps.
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