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1. Which of the following scientific claims about the bond in the molecular compound is most likely to be true?
(A) There is a partial negative charge on the atom.
(B) Electrons are shared equally between the and atoms.
(C) The bond is extremely weak.
(D) The bond is highly polar.
2. The elements and have the same electronegativity value, 2.55. Which of the following claims about the compound that
forms from and is most likely to be true?
(A) The carbon-to-selenium bond is unstable.
(B) The carbon-to-selenium bond is nonpolar covalent.
(C) The compound has the empirical formula .
(D) A molecule of the compound will have a partial negative charge on the carbon atom.
3. Which of the following compounds contains both ionic and covalent bonds?
(A) C2H5OH
(B) MgF2
(C) H2S
(D) NH4Cl
4.
Which of the following correctly indicates whether the solid represented by the particulate model shown above conducts
electricity and explains why or why not?
(A) It conducts electricity because it is made of positive and negative ions.
(B) It conducts electricity because it is made of particles of different sizes.
(C) It does not conduct electricity because its ions cannot move freely within the solid.
(D) It does not conduct electricity because there are small spaces between the particles.
5. Which of the following compounds has the strongest Coulombic attractions between its ions in the solid state?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
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6.
Melting Point
Compound
The table above shows the melting points of and . Which of the following best helps explain why the
melting point of is much higher than that of ?
(A) The mass of ions is greater than that of ions.
(B) The mass of ions is greater than that of ions.
The difference between the electronegativity values of and is smaller than the difference between the values of
(C)
and .
(D) The charges of and ions are greater than those of and ions.
7. The particles in solid , a stable ionic compound, are arranged to maximize coulombic attractions while minimizing
coulombic repulsions among the particles. Which of the following diagrams best represents the structure of solid ?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
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8.
Compound Lattice Energy
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The energy required to dissociate an ionic solid into gaseous ions (lattice energy) for the compounds and is shown
in the table above. On the basis of Coulomb’s law, which of the following best helps to explain the large difference between the
lattice energies of and ?
(A) The solubility of is less than that of .
(B) The electronegativity of is greater than that of .
(C) The mass of the cation is greater than that of the cation.
(D) The charge of the cation is larger than that of the cation.
9. Of the following diagrams, which best represents the structure of solid ?
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(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
10. Which of the following diagrams best depicts an alloy of Ni and B?
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(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
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11. Steel is an alloy consisting of Fe with a small amount of C. Elemental Cr can be added to steel to make the steel less likely
to rust; Cr atoms react with oxygen in the air to form a nonreactive layer of chromium oxide on the surface of the steel,
preventing the oxidation of underlying Fe atoms. A sample of steel-chromium alloy contains 15 percent Cr by mass. Which
of the following diagrams best shows a particle-level view of a surface section and an interior section of the alloy represented
below at the left? (The atomic radii of the atoms involved are given in the table below at the right.)
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
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12.
The diagram above best illustrates which of the following phenomena associated with solids that have metallic bonding?
(A) Electrical conductivity, because it shows a lattice of positive ions immersed in a sea of electrons.
Malleability, because it shows how adjacent layers of positive ions can move relative to one another while remaining in
(B)
full contact with the electron sea.
Heat conductivity, because it shows how layers of atoms can slide past one another, creating friction between layers and
(C)
causing the temperature of the solid to increase.
The ability to form substitutional alloys, because it shows how atoms of two different metals can combine in a one-to-
(D)
one ratio.
13. NH3 reacts with BF3 to form a single species. Which of the following structural diagrams is the most likely representation of
the product of the reaction?
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(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
14. The electron-dot structure (Lewis structure) for which of the following molecules would have two unshared pairs of electrons
on the central atom?
(A) H2S
(B) NH3
(C) HCN
(D) CO2
15. Which of the following molecules contains only single bonds?
(A) CH3COOH
(B) C2H6
(C) C6H6
(D) HCN
16. Copper atoms and zinc atoms have the same atomic radius, 135 picometers. Based on this information, which of the following
diagrams best represents an alloy containing only copper and zinc atoms?
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(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Directions: Each set of lettered choices below refers to the numbered statements immediately following it. Select the one lettered
choice that best fits the statement. A choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
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The question refers to the following species.
(A) H2O
(B) NH3
(C) BH3
(D) CH4
17. Has a central atom with less than an octet of electrons
(A) H2O
(B) NH3
(C) BH3
(D) CH4
18. Has two lone pairs of electrons
(A) H2O
(B) NH3
(C) BH3
(D) CH4
Directions: Each set of lettered choices below refers to the numbered statements immediately following it. Select the one lettered
choice that best fits each statement. A choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all in each set.
The following questions refer to the below molecules:
(A) CO2
(B) H2O
(C) CH4
(D) C2H4
(E) PH3
19. The molecule with only one double bond
(A) CO2
(B) H2O
(C) C2H4
(D) PH3
20. The molecule with the largest dipole moment
(A) CO2
(B) H2O
(C) C2H4
(D) PH3
21. For which of the following molecules are resonance structures necessary to describe the bonding satisfactorily?
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(A) SO2
(B) CO2
(C) OF2
(D) PF3
22. Which of the following molecules has an angular (bent) geometry that is commonly represented as a resonance hybrid of two or
more electron-dot structures?
(A) CO2
(B) O3
(C) BeF2
(D) OF2
23.
Which of the following statements, if true, would support the claim that the ion, represented above, has three resonance
structures?
(A) The ion is not a polar species.
(B) The oxygen-to-nitrogen-to-oxygen bond angles are .
(C) One of the bonds in is longer than the other two.
(D) One of the bonds in is shorter than the other two.
24.
Lewis diagrams of molecules of three different hydrocarbons are shown above. Which of the following claims about the
molecules is best supported by the diagrams?
(A) All the atoms in molecule 1 lie in one plane.
(B) All the molecules have the same empirical formula.
(C) The bond angle in molecule 2 is close to .
(D) The strongest carbon-to-carbon bond occurs in molecule 3.
25. In the following diagrams, elements are represented by and , which form molecular compounds with one another. Which
diagram represents a molecule that has a bent molecular geometry?
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(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
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