Directions: Select the letter that best answers the question or completes the statement presented.

1. Which substance is matched 6. All of these are characteristics of MOST

incorrectly with the type of solid it ionic compounds in the solid phase
forms? except:
a. Ammonium sulfate – ionic solid a. High electrical conductivity
b. Lead – metallic solid b. High melting point
c. Potassium chloride – ionic solid c. Solubility in water
d. Silicon dioxide – molecular solid d. Insolubility in non-polar
organic solvents
2. When the compounds HF, H2O, NH3
and CH4 are listed in order of 7. All of the following properties of
increasing boiling point, which order is liquids increase with increasing
correct? strengths of intermolecular forces
a. CH4 < NH3 < H2O < HF except:
b. NH3 < CH4 < H2O < HF a. boiling point
c. HF < CH4 < H2O < NH3 b. enthalpy of vaporization
d. CH4 < NH3 < HF < H2O c. vapor pressure
d. viscosity
3. Which ionic solid has the greatest
lattice energy? 8. Which pure compounds form
a. NaCl intermolecular hydrogen bonds?
b. MgO I. HF
c. KBr II. H2S
d. SrS III. CH4
a. I only
4. Solid sodium acetate, NaC2H3O2, is b. II only
what type of solid? c. I and II only
a. Ionic d. II and III only
b. Metallic
c. Molecular 9. The lowest melting points overall
d. Network covalent occur for members of which class of
solids?
5. What types of intermolecular forces a. Ionic
are exerted by CH3Cl molecules in the b. Molecular
liquid phase? c. Metallic
I. dipole-dipole forces d. Network covalent
II. Hydrogen bonding
III. London dispersion 10. What are the strongest intermolecular
forces force between neighboring carbon
a. I only tetrachloride, CCl4, molecules?
b. II only a. Dipole-dipole forces
c. I and III only b. London dispersion forces
d. II and III only c. Hydrogen bonds
d. Covalent bonds

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11. Which substance contains individual 15. Which of the following describes the
molecules in the solid? changes in forces of attraction that
a. Graphite occurs as H2O changes phase from a
b. Iodine liquid to a vapor?
c. Mercury a. H-O bonds break as H-H and
d. Silicon carbide O=O bonds form.
b. Hydrogen bonds between H2O
12. Of the following pure substances, molecules are broken.
which has the highest melting point? c. Covalent bonds between H2O
a. S molecules are broken.
b. SiO2 d. Ionic bonds between H+ and OH-
c. SO2 ions are broken.
d. C6H6
16. Which type of solid can best be
13. The compounds C3H8, CH3CH2OH and described as cations being held
CH3OCH3 have very similar molar together by a sea of mobile electrons?
masses. When they are arranged in a. Network solid
order of increasing strength of their b. Ionic solid
intermolecular forces, what is the c. Molecular solid
correct order? d. Metallic solid
a. C3H8, CH3OCH3, CH3CH2OH
b. CH3CH2OH, CH3OCH3, C3H8 17. Network covalent solids
c. CH3OCH3, C3H8, CH3CH2OH a. usually involve extensive ionic
d. CH3CH2OH, C3H8, CH3OCH3 bonding
b. usually involves elements with
14. The best explanation for the fact that low numbers of valence
diamond is extremely hard is that electrons
diamond crystals… c. form very large covalently
a. Are made up of atoms that are bonded molecules
intrinsically hard because of d. always involve a metal and a
their electronic structures nonmetal
b. Consist of positive and negative
ions that are strongly attracted 18. Molecular solids
to each other a. generally have strong
c. Are giant molecules in which intramolecular forces (bonds)
each atom forms strong b. weak intermolecular forces
covalent bonds with all of its c. low melting points
neighboring atoms d. poor thermal and electrical
d. Contain orbitals or bands of conductivity
delocalized electrons that e. all of the above
belong not to single atoms but
to each crystal as a whole. 19. A solid that has a very high melting
point, great hardness, and poor
electrical conduction. This is a(n) ______
solid.
a. molecular
b. ionic
c. metallic
d. covalent network
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