SAMPLE CHEM 16 1ST LONG EXAM (2ND SEMESTER, A.Y.

2018-2019)

PART I: MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE. Write TRUE if the statement is true. Otherwise,
change the underlined statement to make the whole statement correct.
1. The electronegativity of elements across a period increases from right to left.
2. According to Aufbau principle, electrons first occupy the highest energy level
available.
3. According to the molecular orbital theory, no two electrons can have the same set
of quantum numbers at the same time.
4. All compounds follow the octet rule.
5. Specific heat capacity is an intensive property.
6. 350ºF is equivalent to 623 K.
7. The formal charge of the carbon atom in CO32- is -6.
8. According to the periodic trend for ionization energies, sodium, aluminum, silicon,
and magnesium, when arranged according to decreasing first ionization energies,
would be Na > Mg > Al > Si.
9. Bond energy is the energy required to create bonds between atoms of a
compound.
10. A d orbital can hold a maximum of 14 electrons.
11. Bond energy is the energy necessary to form a covalent bond.
12. Lattice energy is the change in energy when ions are packed together to form an
ionic solid.
13. The term lone pair refers to a pair of electrons in a covalent bond while the term
bond pair is applied to a pair of electrons that are not involved in bonding.
14. The stronger the bond, the shorter it is.
15. SF6 violates the octet rule because it has an odd number of electrons.
 16. The Lewis structure for carbon dioxide is (image is underlined).
17. Six pairs of electrons can best be arranged around a given atom with 90-degree
to form a/an trigonal bipyramidal structure.
18. A bond order of 2 refers to a covalent triple bond.
19. A nonbonding molecular orbital has the same energy as the atomic orbitals from
which it is formed - neither adds nor subtracts from bond formation.
20. According to VSEPR theory, [IF4]- has a trigonal planar electron-group geometry
and a bent molecular geometry.
21. The valence-bond theory (which distinguishes between sigma and pi bonds), a pi
bond occurs when unhybridized s-orbitals overlap, and is weaker than a sigma
bond.
22. The sigma notation accounts for antibonding molecular orbital.

PART II: MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the letter of the best answer.
1. Which of the following has the highest first ionization energy (IE 1)?
a. Phosphorus
b. Sulfur
c. Gallium
d. Arsenic
2. Which quantum number describes the orientation of the orbital where an electron
is located?
a. n
b. l
c. ml
d. ms
3. What is the name of H2S(aq)?
a. Hydrosulfuric acid
b. Sulfuric acid
c. Hydrogen sulfide
d. Dihydrogen sulfide
4. Which of the following species is paramagnetic?
a. Zn
b. I-
c. Br
d. Ca2+
5. How many neutrons does 79Br have?
a. 114
b. 79
c. 35
d. 44
6. What is the formula mass of aluminum oxide?
a. 112.94 g/mol
b. 101.96 g/mol
c. 42.98 g/mol
d. 58.98 g/mol
7. What is the chemical formula for chloric acid?
a. HCl(aq)
b. HClO2(aq)
c. HClO3(aq)
d. HClO4(aq)
8. Which of the following pairs are isoelectronic?
a. Br- and Sr2+
b. S and Cl-
c. Na+ and Al
d. I- and Sn2+
9. What is the electronic configuration of Ti4+?
a. [Ne]4s2
b. [Ne]4s24p2
c. [Ar]4s24p2
d. [Ne]3s23p6
10. How many electrons can have the quantum numbers n=3 and l=0?
a. 2
b. 6
c. 8
d. 10
11. Which of the following sets of quantum numbers is impossible?
a. 2, 0, 0, - ½
b. 3, 1, 0, ½
c. 4, 2, -2, ½
d. 5, -1, 1, - ½
12. Which of the following has the orbital diagram shown below?

3d 4s
a. Ni+
b. Ni
c. Cu
d. Zn
13. Which of the following is the least electronegative?
a. Antimony
b. Tellurium
c. Selenium
d. Lead
14. What is the electron group geometry of XeF4?
a. Tetrahedral
b. Seesaw
c. Octahedral
d. Square planar
15. Which of the following molecule is nonpolar?
a. CH3Br
b. IF5-
c. XeF2
d. SO32-

16. How many π bounds can be found in a naproxen molecule, as shown below?

a. 5
b. 6
c. 7
d. 8
17. What is the hybridization of the nitrogen atom in the molecule below?

a. sp
b. sp2
c. sp3
d. sp3d
18. Which molecule exhibits hypervalence?
a. SF6
b. CCl4
c. BF3
d. CO2
19. What is the bond order of O2+?
a. 3/2
b. 2
c. 5/2
d. ½
20. Why is copper a good choice when creating a lightning rod?
I. Copper is a type of metal
II. Copper is very malleable and can be reformed into a rod
III. Copper is an excellent conductor of electricity.
a. I only
 b. I and II only
c. II and III only
d. All of them
21. Arrange the following in decreasing bond length.
a. N3- < F- < Mg2+ < Al3+
b. F- < N3- < Al3+ < Mg2+
c. Al3+ < Mg2+ < F- < N3-
d. Mg2+ < Al3+ < N3- < F-
22. Lithium has two known stable isotopes - lithium-6 and lithium-7. Lithium 6 has a
mass of 6.015 amu and percent abundance of 7.59% while lithium-7 exists
naturally with 92.41 % abundance. If the average atomic mass of lithium is 6.941
amu, what is the mass of lithium-7?
a. 6.917 amu
b. 7.089 amu
c. 7.024 amu
d. 7.017 amu
23. An ionic bond features:
a. Oppositely charged ions attracted to each other
b. Two atoms sharing two electrons
c. Two atoms sharing more than two electrons
d. Like-charged ions attracted to each other

24. Which of the following bonds is the most polar?

a. C-H
b. O-H
c. C-O
d. N-H

25. Which of the following elements is the most electronegative?

a. Br
b. S
c. F
d. I

26. Which of the following molecules does not have a dipole moment?
a. CH3Cl
b. CH2Cl2
c. CHCl3
d. CCl4

27. Bond energy refers to:

a. Energy required to create a mole of compound
b. Energy required to react a compound with another compound
c. Energy required to create a bond between two atoms of a compound
d. Energy required to break a mole of compound
28. A bonding molecular orbital is _______ in energy than the atomic orbitals of
which it is composed. An antibonding molecular orbital is _______ in energy than
the atomic orbitals of which it is composed.
a. equal, higher
b. lower; higher
c. higher, lower
d. equal, lower

29. If a molecule has two bonding sites and a lone electron pair, what is/are the
possible geometry/ies for the molecule?
a. Linear, bent
b. Bent only
c. Tetrahedral, bent
d. T-shaped, bent

30. What would be the hybridization scheme for tetrahedral molecules?

a. sp3
b. sp3d2
c. sp
d. sp2

31. If a molecular species has less antibonding orbitals than bonding orbitals, this
means that the molecule is _____.
a. Stable
b. Unstable
c. Insufficient data given.
d. None of the above.

32. A molecule has 8 electrons in bonding molecular MO and 6 in antibonding

molecular MO. Calculate its bond order.
a. 1
b. ½
c. 3/2
d. 5/2

33. Which of the following statements is true regarding valence bond theory?
I. A bond is formed when two filled electron orbitals overlap.
II. A sigma bond is a bond between to directly overlapping electron orbitals.
III. A pi bond is a bond between to directly overlapping electron orbitals.
a. I only
b. II only
c. III only
d. I and II
 34. What is the orbital hybridization of N in NH3?
a. sp3
b. sp3d
c. sp2
d. sp3d2

35. Antibonding molecular orbitals are produced by

a. constructive interaction of atomic orbitals.
b. destructive interaction of atomic orbitals.
c. the overlap of the atomic orbitals of two negative ions
d. all of these

36. How is molecular shape in VSEPR determined?

a. Shape is determined by the repulsion of the protons in the bonded atoms.
b. Shape is determined by the repulsion of the neutrons in the bonded atoms.
c. c. Shape is determined by the repulsion of the electron pairs in the bonded
atoms.
d. all of these

37. The filling of molecular orbital takes place according to

a. The Aufbau Principle
b. Pauli Exclusion Principle
c. Hund’s rule of maximum multiplicity
d. All of the above

PART III. PROBLEM SOLVING. Show complete solutions.

1. Consider the molecule ICl4-.
a. Draw the most stable structure of the molecule.
b. Identify its electron group geometry and molecular geometry.
c. What is the formal charge of the central atom?
d. What is the hybridization of the orbitals of the central atom?
2. Draw all resonance structures of calcium phosphate and identify the most stable
structure.
3. Consider the species B2-, B2, and B2+.
a. Draw the molecular orbital diagram for each species.
b. Arrange the species according to decreasing bond order.
c. Determine where each species is paramagnetic or diamagnetic.

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ANSWER KEY
PART I. MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE
1. Left to right
2. Lowest energy level
3. Pauli exclusion principle
4. Not all
5. TRUE
6. 450º
7. -4
8. Si > Al > Mg > Na
9. Break
10. 10
11. break
12. TRUE
13. Bond pair, lone pair
14. TRUE
15. more than an octet of electrons

16.
17. Six pairs of electrons can best be arranged around a given atom with 90-degree
angles to form an octahedral structure
18. Covalent double bond
19. TRUE
20. octahedral, square planar
21. P-orbitals, TRUE
22. sigma star
PART II. MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. B 8. A 15. C 22. D 28. B 34. A
2. C 9. D 16. B 23. A 29. B 35. B
3. A 10. A 17. B 24. B 30. A 36. C
4. C 11. D 18. A 25. A 31. A 37. D
5. D 12. C 19. C
26. D 32. A
6. B 13. D 20. D
7. C 14. C 21. C 27. D 33. B