Classification of Carbon
1. What type of carbon is present in methane (CH₄)?
a) Primary
b) Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) Quaternary
Answer: a) Primary
2. A carbon atom bonded to two other carbon atoms is classified as:
a) Primary
b) Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) Quaternary
Answer: b) Secondary
3. How many primary carbons are present in ethane (C₂H₆)?
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3
Answer: c) 2
4. What type of carbon is bonded to three other carbon atoms?
a) Primary
b) Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) Quaternary
Answer: c) Tertiary
5. Which type of carbon atom is bonded to four other carbon atoms?
a) Primary
b) Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) Quaternary
Answer: d) Quaternary
Aromaticity
6. Which of the following compounds is aromatic?
a) Benzene
b) Cyclobutane
c) Ethene
d) Methane
Answer: a) Benzene
7. Aromatic compounds follow which rule?
a) Hund’s Rule
b) 4n+2 Rule
c) Octet Rule
d) Pauli Exclusion Principle
Answer: b) 4n+2 Rule
8. Which of the following is NOT an aromatic compound?
a) Toluene
b) Cyclopentadienyl anion
c) Cyclohexane
d) Naphthalene
Answer: c) Cyclohexane
9. What is the minimum number of π-electrons required for a compound to be
aromatic?
a) 2
b) 4
c) 6
d) 8
Answer: a) 2
10. The anti-aromatic compound does not follow:
a) Huckel’s rule
b) 4n+2 rule
c) Resonance
d) None of these
Answer: b) 4n+2 rule
Degree of Unsaturation
11. The degree of unsaturation in C₆H₆ is:
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
Answer: d) 4
12. Which of the following molecules has zero degrees of unsaturation?
a) Ethene
b) Ethane
c) Benzene
d) Cyclobutane
Answer: b) Ethane
13. For the formula C₂H₄, the degree of unsaturation is:
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
Answer: a) 1
14. A compound with the formula C₄H₈ has how many degrees of unsaturation?
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3
Answer: b) 1
15. Which of the following formulas indicates the presence of two degrees of
unsaturation?
a) C₃H₆
b) C₄H₆
c) C₅H₁₀
d) C₆H₆
Answer: b) C₄H₆
Types of Carbon
16. Which type of carbon is found in propane (CH₃-CH₂-CH₃)?
a) Primary and Secondary
b) Secondary and Tertiary
c) Primary and Tertiary
d) Only Primary
Answer: a) Primary and Secondary
17. What type of carbon is present in isobutane (C(CH₃)₃)?
a) Primary
b) Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) Quaternary
Answer: c) Tertiary
18. How many primary carbons are present in butane (C₄H₁₀)?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
Answer: b) 2
19. Which type of carbon is found in cyclopropane?
a) Primary
b) Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) Quaternary
Answer: b) Secondary
20. Which of the following compounds contains quaternary carbon?
a) Benzene
b) Neo-pentane
c) Propane
d) Butane
Answer: b) Neo-pentane
Homologous Series
21. Which of the following is NOT a member of the alkane homologous series?
a) Methane
b) Ethane
c) Propene
d) Butane
Answer: c) Propene
22. The difference between two successive members of a homologous series is:
a) CH₂
b) CH₄
c) C₂H₂
d) CH
Answer: a) CH₂
23. Which of the following is the molecular formula for an alkene?
a) C₄H₁₀
b) C₄H₆
c) C₄H₈
d) C₄H₄
Answer: c) C₄H₈
24. Which series has a general formula of CnH2n+2?
a) Alkanes
b) Alkenes
c) Alkynes
d) Arenes
Answer: a) Alkanes
25. What is the molecular formula of the third member of the alkyne series?
a) C₂H₂
b) C₃H₄
c) C₄H₆
d) C₅H₈
Answer: c) C₄H₆
Functional Groups
26. Which of the following is a functional group?
a) CH₃
b) -OH
c) -CH₂
d) C₂H₆
Answer: b) -OH
27. The functional group present in alcohols is:
a) -CHO
b) -COOH
c) -OH
d) -C=O
Answer: c) -OH
28. What functional group is present in carboxylic acids?
a) -CHO
b) -COOH
c) -C≡C-
d) -OH
Answer: b) -COOH
29. The general formula R-O-R represents:
a) Alcohols
b) Ketones
c) Ethers
d) Aldehydes
Answer: c) Ethers
30. Which of the following is an example of a ketone?
a) CH₃CHO
b) CH₃COCH₃
c) CH₃COOH
d) CH₃CH₂OH
Answer: b) CH₃COCH₃
31. The functional group -NH₂ belongs to:
a) Amides
b) Amines
c) Alcohols
d) Aldehydes
Answer: b) Amines
32. What is the functional group in aldehydes?
a) -C=O
b) -CHO
c) -COOH
d) -NH₂
Answer: b) -CHO
33. Which functional group is present in esters?
a) -COOR
b) -COOH
c) -OH
d) -NH₂
Answer: a) -COOR
34. An organic compound with a -C≡C- group belongs to:
a) Alkenes
b) Alkynes
c) Arenes
d) Alcohols
Answer: b) Alkynes
35. The functional group present in amides is:
a) -NH₂
b) -C=O
c) -CONH₂
d) -COOH
Answer: c) -CONH₂
36. Which type of carbon is present in ethylbenzene?
a) Primary and Quaternary
b) Primary and Secondary
c) Secondary and Tertiary
d) Primary and Aromatic
Answer: b) Primary and Secondary
37. How many secondary carbons are present in propane (C₃H₈)?
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3
Answer: b) 1
38. What type of carbon atom is bonded to only one other carbon atom?
a) Secondary
b) Tertiary
c) Primary
d) Quaternary
Answer: c) Primary
39. Which type of carbon is always present in the benzene ring?
a) Primary
b) Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) Quaternary
Answer: b) Secondary
40. A carbon atom bonded to no hydrogen atoms is classified as:
a) Primary
b) Secondary
c) Quaternary
d) Tertiary
Answer: c) Quaternary
Aromaticity (Continued)
41. Which of the following compounds is anti-aromatic?
a) Benzene
b) Cyclobutadiene
c) Cycloheptatrienyl cation
d) Anthracene
Answer: b) Cycl
