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CHEMISTRY 0620/21
Paper 2 Multiple Choice (Extended) May/June 2017
45 minutes
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There are forty questions on this paper. Answer all questions. For each question there are four possible
answers A, B, C and D.
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Each correct answer will score one mark. A mark will not be deducted for a wrong answer.
Any rough working should be done in this booklet.
A copy of the Periodic Table is printed on page 16.
Electronic calculators may be used.
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1 Small crystals of purple KMnO4 (Mr = 158) and orange K2Cr2O7 (Mr = 294) were placed at the
centres of separate petri dishes filled with agar jelly. They were left to stand under the same
physical conditions.
After some time, the colour of each substance had spread out as shown.
dish 1 dish 2
KMnO4 K2Cr2O7
The lengths of the arrows indicate the relative distances travelled by particles of each substance.
2 Pure water has a boiling point of 100 °C and a freezing point of 0 °C.
What is the boiling point and freezing point of a sample of aqueous sodium chloride?
A 98 –2
B 98 2
C 102 –2
D 102 2
solvent front
10.5 cm
5.8 cm 6.3 cm
5.5 cm 5.2 cm
baseline
A B C D
Which statements describe what happens to the sodium atoms in this reaction?
A Metals are malleable because the metal ions can slide over one another.
B Metals conduct electricity because electrons can move through the lattice.
C Metals consist of a giant lattice of metal ions in a ‘sea of electrons’.
D Metals have high melting points because of the strong attraction between the metal ions.
x y z
A 1 2 1
B 2 3 2
C 3 2 3
D 4 3 4
A 22 g B 28 g C 44 g D 88 g
A Electrons move through the electrolyte from the cathode to the anode.
B Electrons move towards the cathode in the external circuit.
C Negative ions move towards the anode in the external circuit.
D Positive ions move through the electrolyte towards the anode during electrolysis.
electrolyte
Which fuel is a gas at room temperature and makes two products when it burns in a plentiful
supply of air?
H H H H
H C C H + Cl Cl H C C Cl + H Cl
H H H H
bond energy
bond
in kJ / mol
C–Cl +340
C–C +350
C–H +410
Cl –Cl +240
H–Cl +430
A –1420 kJ / mol
B –120 kJ / mol
C +120 kJ / mol
D +1420 kJ / mol
Further heating causes the sulfur to undergo a ......2...... change and form sulfur dioxide.
1 2
A chemical chemical
B chemical physical
C physical chemical
D physical physical
15 A student was investigating the reaction between marble chips and dilute hydrochloric acid.
gas syringe
bung
marble
chips 25 cm3 of dilute
hydrochloric acid
16 Nitrogen, hydrogen and ammonia gases are placed inside a container. The container is then
sealed. After some time, an equilibrium forms.
A The amount of ammonia remains constant from the moment the container is sealed.
B The amounts of ammonia, nitrogen and hydrogen in the container are always equal.
C The rate of formation of ammonia is equal to the rate of decomposition of ammonia.
D The rate of formation of ammonia is faster than the rate of decomposition of ammonia.
Zn + Cu2+ → Zn2+ + Cu
reaction with
reaction with
aqueous
hydrochloric acid
sodium hydroxide
A key
B = reaction occurs
C = reaction does not occur
D
19 Which row shows how the hydrogen ion concentration and pH of ethanoic acid compare to those
of hydrochloric acid of the same concentration?
A higher higher
B higher lower
C lower higher
D lower lower
20 A pure sample of the insoluble salt barium carbonate can be made using the method given.
21 Substance X reacts with warm dilute hydrochloric acid to produce a gas which decolourises
acidified aqueous potassium manganate(VII).
What is X?
A potassium chloride
B potassium sulfite
C sodium chloride
D sodium sulfite
22 Which element is less reactive than the other members of its group in the Periodic Table?
A astatine
B caesium
C fluorine
D rubidium
carbon
silicon
germanium
tin
lead
flerovium
24 Why are weather balloons sometimes filled with helium rather than hydrogen?
A coloured solution is formed and metal Y is deposited at the bottom of the beaker.
26 Element E:
• forms an alloy
What is E?
A carbon
B copper
C sulfur
D zinc
27 Zinc metal is extracted from its ore zinc blende in a similar method to that used to extract iron
from hematite.
28 Stainless steel is an alloy of iron and other metals. It is strong and does not rust but it costs much
more than normal steel.
A cutlery
B pipes in a chemical factory
C railway lines
D saucepans
1 2 3
For which uses is it important for the water to have been treated?
A Oxides of nitrogen are formed by the reaction of nitrogen with oxygen during the fractional
distillation of liquid air.
B Oxides of nitrogen are formed in a car engine by the reaction of petrol with nitrogen from the
air.
C Oxides of nitrogen are removed from exhaust gases by reaction with carbon dioxide in a
catalytic converter.
D Oxides of nitrogen are removed from exhaust gases by reduction in a catalytic converter.
A Carbon dioxide is formed by the reaction of glucose with water during photosynthesis.
B Carbon dioxide is removed from the air by respiration.
C Glucose reacts with water to form oxygen during respiration.
D Photosynthesis produces glucose and oxygen.
pressure
temperature / °C catalyst
/ atm
A 200 2 V2O5
B 200 450 Fe
C 450 200 Fe
D 500 250 V2O5
fraction use
H H H H O H
H C C O H H C C C C H
H H H H H H
H H H H H H H H H
C C C C C C C C C
H H H H H H H H H
Which diagram shows the monomer from which this polymer could be manufactured?
A B C D
H H H H H H H
H C H H C C H C C H C C O H
H H H H H H H
A Fermentation uses a higher temperature than the catalytic addition of steam to ethene.
B Fermentation uses a non-renewable resource.
C The catalytic addition of steam to ethene produces purer ethanol than fermentation.
D The catalytic addition of steam to ethene uses a biological catalyst.
H H O
H C C C H
H H O C H
A catalysis
B hydration
C hydrolysis
D polymerisation
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H He
hydrogen helium
Key 1 4
3 4 atomic number 5 6 7 8 9 10
Li Be atomic symbol B C N O F Ne
lithium beryllium name boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon
7 9 relative atomic mass 11 12 14 16 19 20
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar
sodium magnesium aluminium silicon phosphorus sulfur chlorine argon
23 24 27 28 31 32 35.5 40
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr
potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium manganese iron cobalt nickel copper zinc gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine krypton
39 40 45 48 51 52 55 56 59 59 64 65 70 73 75 79 80 84
37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54
Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe
rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum technetium ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium indium tin antimony tellurium iodine xenon
85 88 89 91 93 96 – 101 103 106 108 112 115 119 122 128 127 131
16
55 56 57–71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86
lanthanoids
Cs Ba Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn
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caesium barium hafnium tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium iridium platinum gold mercury thallium lead bismuth polonium astatine radon
133 137 178 181 184 186 190 192 195 197 201 204 207 209 – – –
87 88 89–103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 114 116
actinoids
Fr Ra Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Fl Lv
francium radium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium flerovium livermorium
– – – – – – – – – – – – –
57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71
lanthanoids La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu
lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium promethium samarium europium gadolinium terbium dysprosium holmium erbium thulium ytterbium lutetium
139 140 141 144 – 150 152 157 159 163 165 167 169 173 175
89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103
actinoids Ac Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr
actinium thorium protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium curium berkelium californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium lawrencium
– 232 231 238 – – – – – – – – – – –
The volume of one mole of any gas is 24 dm3 at room temperature and pressure (r.t.p.).
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