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Organic Chemistry quiz (Singapore O-Level Chemistry, SEAB 6092) quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What is the general formula of the alkanes?

  2. What does it mean to describe an alkane as 'saturated'?

  3. What are the products of the complete combustion of a hydrocarbon?

  4. Which toxic gas is produced during the incomplete combustion of a fuel?

  5. Why do alkenes undergo addition reactions but alkanes generally do not?

  6. What is observed when ethene is shaken with orange-brown bromine water?

  7. What is addition polymerisation?

  8. Which polymer is made from ethene monomers?

  9. Which two methods can be used to make ethanol?

  10. What happens when ethanol is oxidised by acidified potassium dichromate(VI)?

  11. What is formed when a carboxylic acid reacts with an alcohol (warmed with a little concentrated sulfuric acid)?

  12. Why does ethanoic acid behave as a typical acid?