6. Which of the following tablets requires mucoadhesive polymers (like cellulose derivatives or chitosan) and flavouring agents as it can stay in the mouth 30-60 mins?
Buccal tablets
Sublingual tablets
Multiple compression tablets
Lozenges
7. Which of the following tablets are typically harder, much larger and have disintegration and sweetening functions?
Chewable tablets
Vaginal tablets
Oro-dispersible tablets
Effervescent tablets
8. Which type of coating involves dusting, sealing of tablet cores with alcoholic solution, sub-coating of heavy sugar solution w. acacia to round off edge, smoothing with sugar syrup, colouring with titanium oxide, polishing with beeswax and printing?
Sugar coating
Compressed coating
Film coating
Enteric coating
9. Which of the following tablets is not manufactured by compression, is very soft and disintegrates quickly, and is formed under a low pressure?
Sublingual tablets
Molded tablets
Chewable tablets
Lozenges
10. Which of the following are the main types of bonding during compaction?
Mechanical interlocking
All of the above
Solid bridges
Distance forces (van der waals, hydrogen bonding, electrostatic bonding)
11. What are micrometer calipers used to measure?
Tablet thickness
Tablet hardness
Tablet friability
Tablet weight
12. Which test is used to assess flowability after a tablet has been produced?
Dissolution
Friability
Uniformity of weight
Uniformity of content
13. The API in lypholised tablets must be...?
Large
Water insoluble
Water soluble
Dense
14. Which type of deformation involves a temporary shape change that can be reversed when the force is removed?
Elastic deformation
Plastic deformation
Brittle fracture
15. What is the first stage of disintegration?
Capillary action + wicking
Swelling/distension
Particle repulsion
Deformation of particles
16. What does (applied load)/(cross sectional area) measure?
Stress
Strain
17. Which name is given to tablets which have their API formulated into a solution or suspension, passed through a cryogenic freezing process, transferred to large scale freeze dryers and then sealed?
Lypholised tablets
Lozenges
Buccal tablets
Molded tablets
18. Which of the following tablets is made by more than one compression cycle? This is a bilayer tablet where combination therapy is required but intimate mixing of the APIs may make them degrade.
Multiple compression tablets
Vaginal tablets
Molded tablets
Chewable tablets
19. Which type of coating involves surrounding a powder around a tablet and compressing instead of using a sprayed solution?
Enteric coating
Compressed coating
Film coating
Sugar coating
20. Which of the following tablets requires dissolution in water before drinking where an acid/base reaction between sodium bicarbonate and citric/tartaric acid occurs?
