DUHS MDCAT 2023 Reconduct Paper

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1. A falling drop of liquid is always spherical due to:
a. Viscosity
b. Evaporation
c. Surface tension
d. Vapour pressure
2. Which is used to make TV and Computer screens?
a. Solid
b. Liquid
c. Gas
d. Plasma
3. Which of the following crystalline solids has characteristics of malleability, ductility, electrical and
thermal conductivity?
a. Ionic
b. Covalent
c. Metallic
d. Molecular
4. What happens to Kc when the catalyst is added to a reversible reaction:
a. It is decreased
b. It becomes zero
c. It is increased
d. Remains same
5. The outer body of a dry cell is made up of:
a. Carbon
b. Zinc
c. Graphite
d. Copper
6. Which process occurs at the anode?
a. Reduction
b. Ionization
c. Oxidation
d. Dissociation
7. Dipole moment of CS2 is:
a. 1
b. 0
c. 2
d. 3

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 8. Which of the following molecules has a trigonal pyramidal shape?
a. H2O
b. BF3
c. NH3
d. CH4
9. In the first law of thermodynamics, initial and final state depends upon:
a. Heat (q)
b. Work done (w)
c. Internal energy (E)
d. All of these
10. In the chemical reaction 2HNO2 → NO2 + NO + H2O. the order of the reaction is:
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
11. The general gas equation is a combination of:
a. Boyle’s law and Charle’s law
b. Boyle’s law and Dalton's law
c. Boyle’s law and Gay-Lussac’s law
d. Charle’s law and Dalton’s law
12. The smallest repeating pattern on which a crystal lattice is built is known as:
a. Crystal system
b. Crystal habit
c. Unit Cell
d. Cell parameters
13. Kc is called:
a. Solubility product
b. Reaction Quotient
c. Rate constant
d. Equilibrium constant
14. 2HI → H2 + I2. What is the order of reaction?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
15. In the reaction A→ B, the rate of disappearance is:
𝑑𝐴
a.
𝑑𝑡
𝑑𝐴
b. −
𝑑𝑡
𝑑𝐵
c.
𝑑𝑡
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d. −
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 16. At room temperature and pressure, Formaldehyde is:
a. Solid
b. Liquid
c. Gas
d. Plasma
17. The molecular weight of water-soluble protein is:
a. High
b. Low
c. Moderate
d. Very low
18. At equilibrium
a. Rate of forward reaction > rate of backward reaction
b. Rate of forward reaction = rate of backward reaction
c. Rate of forward reaction < rate of backward reaction
d. None of these
19. Fats-soluble vitamins are
a. B and C
b. A, D,E, and K
c. A, B, and C
d. A and D
20. Maximum amount of product is obtained by balanced chemical reaction by using:
a. Theoretical yield
b. Practical yield
c. Actual yield
d. All of the above
21. The percentage of oxygen in water is:
a. 66.66%
b. 77.77%
c. 88.88%
d. 99.99%
22. A limiting reactant is one that produces:
a. Minimum number of moles of product
b. Maximum number of moles of product
c. Minimum number of moles of reactant
d. Maximum number of moles of reactant
23. Nucleophile is:
a. Electron-seeking species
b. Electron-rich species
c. Neutral species
d. Negatively charged species

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 24. The highest temperature at which a gas exists in both liquid and gaseous state Is called:
a. Triple point
b. Fame point
c. Critical temperature
d. Transition temperature
25. Elimination reaction in which only substrate involves in rate determining step is:
a. Unimolecular
b. Bimolecular
c. Trimolecular
d. Tetramolecular
26. Tollens’s reagent is prepared by adding drops of NaOH + AgNO3 to form white precipitate of:
a. KOH
b. AgOH
c. AgCl
d. AgBr
27. Which one helps to prevent change in pH?
a. Acid
b. Base
c. Salt
d. Buffer
28. Dry distillation of calcium acetate produces:
a. Formaldehyde
b. Acetone
c. Acetic acid
d. Ethyl acetate
29. The number 75300 can be written as:
a. 7.5 x 104
b. 7.5 x 105
c. 7.5 x 103
d. 7.5 x 106
30. X-rays were discovered by:
a. Maxwell
b. Roentgen
c. W. Crooks
d. J.J Thomson
31. Alluminium is extracted through:
a. Cryolite
b. Gibbsite
c. Bauxite
d. Diaspore

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 32. Electrically refined copper is:
a. 99% pure
b. 99.9% pure
c. 100% pure
d. 90% pure
33. Stainless steel is an alloy of:
a. Fe and Cr
b. Fe and Ni
c. Fe, Ni and Cr
d. Fe and Sn
34. In the orbital of atom, no two electrons can have same set of quantum numbers. It is statement of:
a. Pauli’s exclusion principle
b. Aufbau principle
c. Hund’s rule
d. n+l rule
35. Cracking is employed to get increasing quantities of petrol/gasoline from:
a. Coal
b. Gasoline
c. Natural gas
d. Crude oil
36. A reaction in which two molecules combine and yield a single molecule is called:
a. Addition reaction
b. Substitution reaction
c. Oxidation reaction
d. Elimination reaction
37. Benzene was first discovered by:
a. Faraday
b. Hoffman
c. Kekule
d. Robinson
38. Fuming sulfuric acid at room temperature reacts with benzene to produce:
a. Nitro benzene
b. Chlorobenzene
c. Toluene
d. Benzenesulfonic acid
39. p-block elements contain:
a. metals
b. nonmetals
c. metals and nonmetals
d. reactive metals

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 40. Viscosity is measure of:
a. tension created on the surface of liquid
b. pressure exerted by vapours
c. resistance to flow in a liquid
d. escaping of molecules from surface of liquid
41. What is the shape of diamond?
a. Trigonal
b. Linear
c. Bent
d. Tetrahedral
42. Electrons revolve around nucleus and situated at fixed distance from nucleus with negative charge. It
is statement of:
a. Rutherford
b. Bohr
c. Schrodinger
d. Thomson
43. Which radioactive radiation has highest penetrating power?
a. Alpha rays
b. Beta rays
c. Gamma rays
d. X-rays
44. The process in which straight chain hydrocarbon is coverted into branched chain hydrocarbon is
called:
a. Cracking
b. Polymerization
c. Refining
d. Reforming
45. Petrol/Gasoline is mixture of:
a. Hexane and heptane
b. Pentane and hexane
c. Heptane and octane
d. Octane and nonane
46. Acetylene is passed through red hot copper tube to produce:
a. Methane
b. Benzene
c. Ethylene
d. Naphthalene
47. Methanol is also called as:
a. Wood spirit
b. Grain alcohol
c. Rubbing alcohol
d. Glycol

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 48. Which is used as ink preservative?
a. Phenol
b. Acetone
c. Acetic acid
d. Ethyl acetate
49. Positively charge oxygen ion is known as:
a. Oxide ion
b. Oxygen ion
c. Oxonium ion
d. Hydronium ion
50. Diffusion of gas is inversely proportional to the square root of its density at constant temperature
and pressure is the statement of:
a. Dalton’s law
b. Boyle’s law
c. Graham’s law
d. Avogadro’s law

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