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MULTIPLE CHOICE
Use the figure below to answer question 1.
_____ 1. What is the maximum number of electrons that can be held in the
second energy level of an atom?
A. 2
B. 7
C. 8
D. 9
_____ 2. What happens when a nonmetal atom gains an electron from another
atom? Energy is
A. given off by the atom losing the electron.
B. given off by the atom gaining the electron.
C. absorbed by the atom gaining the electron.
D. transferred to the atom gaining the electron.
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_____ 3. An aluminum ion has 13 protons, 14 neutrons, and 10 electrons. What
is the charge of an aluminum ion?
A. 10–
B. 3–
C. 1+
D. 3+
_____ 4. The atoms of elements in Group 17 of the periodic table are very
reactive. Which of the following best describes the energy transfers that
happen with the elements in this group?
A. The more easily an atom loses an electron, the less energy the atom
releases.
B. The more easily an atom gains an electron, the less energy the atom
releases.
C. The more easily an atom loses an electron, the more energy the atom
releases.
D. The more easily an atom gains an electron, the more energy the atom
releases.
_____ 5. Sodium chloride, or table salt, is a compound formed when a chlorine
atom takes an electron from a neighboring sodium atom. Which of the
following describes the force that holds the resulting chlorine particle
and the resulting sodium particle together?
A. an ionic bond
B. a neutral bond
C. a metallic bond
D. a covalent bond
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Use the diagram below to answer question 6.
_____ 6. How many neutrons are in a typical fluorine atom?
A. 9
B. 10
C. 17
D. 19
_____ 7. What forms when atoms share one or more pairs of electrons?
A. covalent bond
B. ionic bond
C. valence electron
D. nonmetal ion
_____ 8. The ions that make up an ionic compound are bonded in a repeating
three-dimensional pattern. What is this pattern called?
A. chloride lattice
B. covalent bond
C. crystal lattice
D. crystal pattern
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_____ 9. What is a molecule?
A. the smallest particle of a substance that cannot be broken down any
further by chemical bonding
B. a particle that forms when atoms gain or lose electrons
C. matter of particular or definite chemical composition
D. the smallest unit of a substance that keeps the physical and chemical
properties of the substance
_____ 10. Juanita observes a model of two bonded atoms. She is told that the
atoms are both nonmetals. She is looking at a model of
A. a covalent bond.
B. an acid.
C. an ionic bond.
D. a salt.
OPEN RESPONSE
11. Which of an atom’s electrons are most likely to be involved in chemical
bonding? Why?
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12. Why don’t the noble gases in Group 18 on the periodic table form chemical
bonds?
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