1.

What element is the only non-metal that is in the

liquid state at room temperature?
a. Chlorine
b. Bromine
c. Sodium
d. Mercury
2. What is the result form the combination in
definite proportion of mass, of two or more
elements?
a. Mixture
b. Compound
c. Substance
d. Chemical Reaction
3. Which of the following is a mixture?
a. Sodium chloride
b. Brass
c. Lead
d. Charcoal
4. The mixture of soil and water is an example of
what classification of mixture?
a. Homogenous
b. Suspension
c. Colloid
d. Solution
5. What refers to a very common colloidal substance
that contains collagen and comes from bone of
animals?
a. Gel
b. Gelatin
c. Emulsion
d. Amino acid
6. What element is used to build DNA molecules
a. Magnesium
b. Zinc
c. Iodine
d. Potassium
7. Approximately what percentage of the elements
in the periodic table are metals?
a. 60%
b. 70%
c. 80%
d. 90%
8. What is the property of materials that allow them
to be rolled without breaking?
a. Ductility
b. Malleability
c. Luster
d. Electricity
9. What refers to the property of matter which states 17. “The masses of elements in a pure compound are
that “two objects cannot occupy the same place always in the same proportion”. This stamen is
at the same time” known as ____________.
a. Impregnability a. Law of multiple proportion
b. Impenetrability b. Law of definite proportion
c. Malleability c. The periodic law
d. Uninterchangeability d. Dalton’s atomic theory
10. Which of the following is NOT a property of bases? 18. Who discovered radioactivity?
a. Feel slippery on the skin a. Henri Becquerel
b. Turn litmus paper to blue b. Marie Curie
c. Taste bitter c. Pierre Curie
d. Dissolve materials producing various salts d. Niels Bohr
and hydrogen gas 19. What is the unit of charge of a particle
11. An acid can react with a base to produce a _____. a. Coulomb
a. Hydrogen gas b. Charge unit
b. Salt c. Atomic mass unit
c. Oxide d. Lepton
d. Hydroxide 20. The size of an electron is very small. It is believed
12. Vinegar is a solution of water and what acid? to have a diameter of about how many Angstrom?
a. Phosphoric acid a. 0.0001
b. Sulfuric acid b. 0.001
c. Nitric acid c. 0.01
d. Acetic acid d. 0.1
13. What acid is added to carbonated drinks to 21. What are the rows in the periodic table called?
produce a tart test? a. Periods
a. Citric acid b. Transitions
b. Phosphoric acid c. Groups
c. Sulfuric acid d. Families
d. Nitric acid 22. Who discovered the uncertainty principle?
14. What type of acid is used in soft drinks? a. Werner Karl Heisenberg
a. Acetic acid b. Louie de Broglie
b. Phosphoric acid c. Albert Einstein
c. Hydrochloric acid d. John Newlands
d. Nitric acid 23. What law states that “the total volume of a
15. What describes the number of different mixture of non-reacting gases is equal to the sum
homogenous materials in a sample? of the partial volumes”?
a. Phase a. Azamat’s law
b. State b. Dalton’s law
c. Atomic number c. Charles’ law
d. Atomic mass d. Matthiessen’s law
16. The properties of material that changes when the 24. What is a poisonous gas generated mostly by
amount of substance changes are called motor vehicles?
_________ properties. a. Carbon monoxide
a. Intensive b. Carbon dioxide
b. Extensive c. Hydroxide
c. Physical d. Nitric acid
d. Chemical
25. What is the process of changing from gas to solid
state?
a. Deposition
b. Vaporization
c. Condensation
d. Sublimation
26. What is the ratio of the number of moles of one
component of a solution to the total number of
moles of all the components>
a. Molarity
b. Molality
c. Formality
d. Mole fraction
27. What theory state that an acid is a substance that
can accept a lone pair from another molecule, and
base is a substance that has a lone pair of
electrons?
a. Arrhenius theory
b. Bronsted- Lowry theory
c. Lewis theory
d. pH concept
28. What is the most convenient way of expressing
hydronium ion concentration?
a. Hydrometer reading
b. pH scale
c. alkalinity
d. basicity
29. What is the pH of pure water?
a. 6.1
b. 6.5
c. 7
d. 7.4
30. What formula provides the whole number ratio of
elements in a compound?
a. Molecular formula
b. Chemical formula
c. Empirical formula
d. Structural formula
31. What volume of concentrated sulfuric acid would
weigh 0.82 kg if its density is 1.85g/ml?
a. 234.56 ml
b. 326.84 ml
c. 443.24 ml
d. 458.34 ml
32. Under a pressure of 770 torr, 150 ml of gas is 39. The density of one bottle of alcohol is 0.85 g/ml.
enclosed inside a cylinder. What will be the What is the weight of the alcohol if the volume of
volume in liters of the same amount of gas if the the bottle is 50 ml.
pressure is increase to 1500 torr? a. 15 g
a. 0.077 L b. 50 g
b. 0.77 L c. 85 g
c. 7.7 L d. 100 g
d. 77 L 40. What volume will 1.27 mol of helium gas occupy
33. In a nuclear explosion, once cubic foot of air is at STP? Gas constant = 0.0821 L-atm/mol-K.
heated from 0 deg. Celsius to 500,000 deg. a. 26.9 L
Celsius. To what volume does the air expand? b. 27.3 L
a. 578 ft3 c. 28.5 L
b. 1245 ft3 d. 29.1 L
c. 1832 ft3
d. 2560 ft3
34. How many moles of hydrogen gas are there in a
100 liter container if the pressure is 15 atm and
the temperature is 25oC?
a. 51.3 moles
b. 56.3 moles
c. 61.3 moles
d. 66.3 moles
35. What is the mole fraction of ethyl alcohol
(C2H5OH) if 15 grams of this compound is dissolved
in 36 grams of water?
a. 0.12
b. 0.14
c. 0.86
d. 0.88
36. What is the equivalent weight in water of oxygen
if its atomic weight was 100?
a. 25
b. 50
c. 75
d. 100
37. Determine the simplest formula of a compound
that has 72.4% iron and 27.6% of oxygen by
weight.
a. Fe2O3
b. Fe3O2
c. Fe3O4
d. Fe4O3
38. Determine the molecular mass of CH4O in amu.
a. 16 amu
b. 28 amu
c. 32 amu
d. 36 amu
1. Which of the following best describes a scientific 9. How are substances classified?
law? a. Elements or compounds
a. It describes and observes physical results. b. Metals and non-metals
b. It implies something accurate. c. Acids and bases
c. It implies experimentation results. d. Homogenous and heterogeneous
d. It summarizes and observed facts. 10. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of
2. What are found in the nucleus of an atom? non-metals?
a. Electrons and protons a. Non-metals form positive ions.
b. Protons and neutrons b. Non-metals have high electron affinities.
c. Cations and anions c. Non-metals have negative oxidation
d. Electrons and neutrons number.
3. What is the negatively charged particle of an d. Non-metals are oxidizing agents.
atom? 11. What type of bond results in form the sharing of
a. Electrons electrons by two atoms
b. Protons a. Atomic bond
c. Neutron b. Covalent bond
d. Molecule c. Metallic bond
4. What is the particle of an atom that has no d. Ionic bond
electrical charge? 12. Which of the following statements regarding
a. Electrons organic substances is FALSE?
b. Protons a. Organic substances generally dissolve in
c. Neutron high concentration acids
d. Molecule b. All organic matter contains carbon
5. The word “atom” comes from the Greek “Atomos” c. Organic matter is generally stable at very
which means what? high temperatures.
a. Extremely small d. Organic substances generally do not
b. Invisible dissolve in water
c. Indivisible 13. What do you call a substance that dissociates in
d. Microscopic solutions to produce positive and negative ions?
6. Who is regarded as the father of modern a. Base
chemistry? b. Acid
a. Aristotle c. Electrolyte
b. Robert Boyle d. Solute
c. Antoine Lavoisier 14. During a complete or partial neutralization of
d. John Dalton acids, what is the ionic compound formed?
7. Who was the first person to propose that atoms a. Salt
have weights? b. Sugar
a. Ernest Rutherford c. Potassium
b. Democritus d. Sulfur
c. John Dalton
d. Joseph John Thomson
8. What element has the smallest atom?
a. Hydrogen
b. Nitrogen
c. Oxygen
d. Magnesium
15. Which of the following is most likely to prove that 22. A pair of electrical conductors of dissimilar
a substance is inorganic? materials so joined as to produce a thermal emf
a. The substance evaporates in room when the junctions are of different temperatures.
temperature and pressure a. Potentiometer
b. The substance is heated together with b. Piezoelectric
copper oxide and the resulting gases are c. Thermocouple
found to have no effect on limestone. d. Solar Heating
c. Analysis shows that the substance 23. Which of the following refers to the diffusion of a
contains hydrogen. solvent into a stronger solution in an attempt to
d. The substance floats in water. equalize the two concentrations?
16. Which of the following is the atomic number of a. Purification
silicon? b. Electrolysis
a. 32 c. Osmosis
b. 24 d. Hydrolysis
c. 14 24. The formula for Dinitrogen Pentoxide is
d. 28 a. N2O5
17. Dielectric is another name for b. (NO)5
a. A conductor c. NO
b. An element d. None of these
c. An insulator 25. Which of the following will occur if a substance is
d. A capacitor oxidized?
18. Which of the following refers to the change from a. It absorbs energy
gaseous to liquid phase? b. It loses electrons
a. Condensation c. It becomes more negative
b. Vaporization d. It give off heat
c. Sublimation 26. What type of reaction has one element and one
d. Ionization compound as reactants?
19. “At the same pressure and temperature, equal a. Direct combination or synthesis
volumes of all gases contain equal number of b. Decomposition or analysis
molecules.” This is known as c. Single Displacement
a. Boyle’s law d. Double Displacement
b. Faraday’s law 27. What volume of concentrated sulfuric acid would
c. Avogadro’s law weigh 0.82 kg if it’s density is 1.85 g/ml?
d. Charles law a. 234.56 ml
20. The galvanic cell is not dependent of which factor? b. 326.84 ml
a. Temperature c. 443.24 ml
b. Pressure d. 458.34 ml
c. Volume 28. Under a pressure of 770 torr, 150 ml of gas is
d. Chemical substance enclosed inside a cylinder. What will be the
21. Which of the following refers to the number of volume in liters of the same amount of gas if the
protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom? pressure is increased to 1500 torr?
a. Atomic weight
b. Atomic mass
c. Atomic constant
d. Atomic number