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PHARM CJE PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED GRADED A UPDATED 2025/2026
Terms in this set (365)
1. A woman diagnosed ANS: B
with obsessive- Rationale: Drugs that produce systemic effects
compulsive disorder are taken into the body, circulated through the
has been prescribed bloodstream to their sites of action in various
oral paroxetine body tissues, and
hydrochloride. What is eventually eliminated from the body. Curative
the expected effect agents are given to cure a disease process. In
for this prescription? this case, paroxetine hydrochloride will control
A. Curative effect on the symptoms but not
symptoms cure the disorder. Drugs with local effects,
such as sunscreen and local anesthetics, act
B. Systemic effect on
mainly at the site of application. Paroxetine
symptoms
hydrochloride is not administered parenterally.
C. Local effect on
Parenteral agents are administered
symptoms
subcutaneously, intramuscularly, or
D. Parenteral effect on
intravenously.
symptoms
2. A client has ANS: B
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been prescribed an Rationale: Semisynthetic drugs (e.g., many
antibiotic. This antibiotics) are naturally occurring substances
medication is a that have been chemically modified. Synthetic
naturally occurring drugs are more
substance that has standardized in their chemical characteristics,
been more consistent in their effects, and less likely
chemically modified. to produce allergic reactions. Biotechnology
What is another name drugs involve manipulating DNA and RNA and
for this type of recombining genes into hybrid molecules that
medication? can be inserted into living organisms.
A. Synthetic drug Prototype drugs are the first drug of a
B. Semisynthetic drug particular group to be developed.
C. Biotechnology drug
D. Prototype drug
ANS: A
3. Which Rationale: Drugs are classified according to
classification their effects on particular body systems, their
applies to therapeutic uses, and their chemical
morphine? characteristics. Morphine is classified as a
A. Central nervous system central nervous system depressant and will
depressant. produce this effect in the client. A central
B. Anti-inflammatory nervous system stimulant increases attention
C. Antihypertensive and raises mood. An anti-inflammatory agent
decreases inflammation at the site of tissue or
joint inflammation. An
antihypertensive agent reduces blood pressure.
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4. A client is administered ANS: C
amoxicillin. The Rationale: Amoxicillin is a beta-lactam
client's medication antibiotic, not a cephalosporin, tetracycline, or
belongs to what group? macrolide.
A. tetracyclines
B. cephalosporins
C. beta-lactam antibiotics
D. macrolides
5. The administration of ANS: D
diphenhydramine Rationale: The Food and Drug Administration
(Benadryl) is approves drugs for over-the-counter
regulated by which availability, including the transfer of drugs
U.S. government from prescription to OTC status, and may
agency? require clinical trials to determine the
A. Public Health Service safety and effectiveness of OTC use. The
B. Federal Trade Public Health Service is regulated by the state
Commission to maintain the health of individual citizens of
C. Occupational the state. The Federal Trade Commission
Safety and Health regulates imports and exports
Administration throughout the nation. The Occupational Safety
D. Food and Drug and Health Administration regulates safety
Administration within the workplace.
6. In the United States, the ANS: B
administration of Rationale: The Comprehensive Drug Abuse
anabolic steroids is Prevention and Control Act regulates the
regulated by which manufacture and distribution of narcotics,
law? stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens,
A. The Food, Drug, and and anabolic steroids. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
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Cosmetic Act of 1938 Act of 1938 revised and
B. The broadened FDA powers and responsibilities,
Comprehensive giving the FDA control over drug safety. The
Drug Abuse Harrison Narcotic Act restricted the importation,
Prevention and manufacture, sale, and use of opium, cocaine,
Control Act marijuana, and other drugs that the act defined
C. The Harrison Narcotic as narcotics. The
Act Sherley Amendment of 1912 prohibited fraudulent
D. The Sherley Amendment claims of drug effectiveness.
7. In Phase 1 clinical trials, ANS: A
the potential uses and Rationale: Phase 1 studies allow for the
effects of a new drug administration of the medication to healthy
are determined by volunteers to determine safe dosages, routes
which method? of administration, absorption,
A. Administering metabolism, excretion, and toxicity. In Phase 2 studies, a
doses to healthy few doses are given to a
volunteers certain number of subjects with the disease or
B. Administering symptom for which the drug is being studied
doses to people with and responses are compared with those of
the disease healthy subjects. Placebo-
C. Administering in controlled designs are used in Phase 3 studies,
placebo-controlled in which half of the subjects receive the new
design drug and half receive the placebo.
D. Calculating the risk-to- Calculating the risk-to-benefit ratio is
benefit ratio used in Phase 2 studies to determine whether
the potential benefits of the drug outweigh
the risks.
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PHARM CJE PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED GRADED A UPDATED 2025/2026
Terms in this set (365)
1. A woman diagnosed ANS: B
with obsessive- Rationale: Drugs that produce systemic effects
compulsive disorder are taken into the body, circulated through the
has been prescribed bloodstream to their sites of action in various
oral paroxetine body tissues, and
hydrochloride. What is eventually eliminated from the body. Curative
the expected effect agents are given to cure a disease process. In
for this prescription? this case, paroxetine hydrochloride will control
A. Curative effect on the symptoms but not
symptoms cure the disorder. Drugs with local effects,
such as sunscreen and local anesthetics, act
B. Systemic effect on
mainly at the site of application. Paroxetine
symptoms
hydrochloride is not administered parenterally.
C. Local effect on
Parenteral agents are administered
symptoms
subcutaneously, intramuscularly, or
D. Parenteral effect on
intravenously.
symptoms
2. A client has ANS: B
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been prescribed an Rationale: Semisynthetic drugs (e.g., many
antibiotic. This antibiotics) are naturally occurring substances
medication is a that have been chemically modified. Synthetic
naturally occurring drugs are more
substance that has standardized in their chemical characteristics,
been more consistent in their effects, and less likely
chemically modified. to produce allergic reactions. Biotechnology
What is another name drugs involve manipulating DNA and RNA and
for this type of recombining genes into hybrid molecules that
medication? can be inserted into living organisms.
A. Synthetic drug Prototype drugs are the first drug of a
B. Semisynthetic drug particular group to be developed.
C. Biotechnology drug
D. Prototype drug
ANS: A
3. Which Rationale: Drugs are classified according to
classification their effects on particular body systems, their
applies to therapeutic uses, and their chemical
morphine? characteristics. Morphine is classified as a
A. Central nervous system central nervous system depressant and will
depressant. produce this effect in the client. A central
B. Anti-inflammatory nervous system stimulant increases attention
C. Antihypertensive and raises mood. An anti-inflammatory agent
decreases inflammation at the site of tissue or
joint inflammation. An
antihypertensive agent reduces blood pressure.
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4. A client is administered ANS: C
amoxicillin. The Rationale: Amoxicillin is a beta-lactam
client's medication antibiotic, not a cephalosporin, tetracycline, or
belongs to what group? macrolide.
A. tetracyclines
B. cephalosporins
C. beta-lactam antibiotics
D. macrolides
5. The administration of ANS: D
diphenhydramine Rationale: The Food and Drug Administration
(Benadryl) is approves drugs for over-the-counter
regulated by which availability, including the transfer of drugs
U.S. government from prescription to OTC status, and may
agency? require clinical trials to determine the
A. Public Health Service safety and effectiveness of OTC use. The
B. Federal Trade Public Health Service is regulated by the state
Commission to maintain the health of individual citizens of
C. Occupational the state. The Federal Trade Commission
Safety and Health regulates imports and exports
Administration throughout the nation. The Occupational Safety
D. Food and Drug and Health Administration regulates safety
Administration within the workplace.
6. In the United States, the ANS: B
administration of Rationale: The Comprehensive Drug Abuse
anabolic steroids is Prevention and Control Act regulates the
regulated by which manufacture and distribution of narcotics,
law? stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens,
A. The Food, Drug, and and anabolic steroids. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
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AM
Cosmetic Act of 1938 Act of 1938 revised and
B. The broadened FDA powers and responsibilities,
Comprehensive giving the FDA control over drug safety. The
Drug Abuse Harrison Narcotic Act restricted the importation,
Prevention and manufacture, sale, and use of opium, cocaine,
Control Act marijuana, and other drugs that the act defined
C. The Harrison Narcotic as narcotics. The
Act Sherley Amendment of 1912 prohibited fraudulent
D. The Sherley Amendment claims of drug effectiveness.
7. In Phase 1 clinical trials, ANS: A
the potential uses and Rationale: Phase 1 studies allow for the
effects of a new drug administration of the medication to healthy
are determined by volunteers to determine safe dosages, routes
which method? of administration, absorption,
A. Administering metabolism, excretion, and toxicity. In Phase 2 studies, a
doses to healthy few doses are given to a
volunteers certain number of subjects with the disease or
B. Administering symptom for which the drug is being studied
doses to people with and responses are compared with those of
the disease healthy subjects. Placebo-
C. Administering in controlled designs are used in Phase 3 studies,
placebo-controlled in which half of the subjects receive the new
design drug and half receive the placebo.
D. Calculating the risk-to- Calculating the risk-to-benefit ratio is
benefit ratio used in Phase 2 studies to determine whether
the potential benefits of the drug outweigh
the risks.
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