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SCH 3U Stoichiometry Practice Test

This document contains a practice test for a chemistry class on stoichiometry. It includes 14 multiple choice questions testing concepts like writing balanced chemical equations, identifying limiting and excess reactants, calculating theoretical and actual yields, and percentage yields. It also provides 4 multi-part chemistry problems to solve involving stoichiometric calculations and identifying quantities in balanced equations.

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SCH 3U Stoichiometry Practice Test

This document contains a practice test for a chemistry class on stoichiometry. It includes 14 multiple choice questions testing concepts like writing balanced chemical equations, identifying limiting and excess reactants, calculating theoretical and actual yields, and percentage yields. It also provides 4 multi-part chemistry problems to solve involving stoichiometric calculations and identifying quantities in balanced equations.

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SCH 3U Practice Tests: Goncalves

SCH 3U: Stoichiometry Practice Test


1. The production of borax involves a reaction between boron and sodium hydroxide. The products are
sodium borate decahydrate (Na2B4O710H2O) and hydrogen gas.
a) Write a balanced chemical equation to model the above situation.
b) In a laboratory, 3.5 mol of boron reacts with sodium hydroxide to create the products of this reaction.
How many mol of sodium borate decahydrate will be created?
c) In a laboratory, 155 g of sodium hydroxide react with boron to create the products of this reaction. How
many mol of sodium borate decahydrate will be created?
d) Assuming the quantities in parts b) and c) remain consistent, identify the limiting and excess reagents
of this reaction.
e) What mass of the excess reagent is leftover?
f) The reaction is carried out and produces 1580 g of borax. What is the percentage yield?
2. Barium chlorate is a white solid produced when barium chloride reacts with sodium chlorate.
a) Write a balanced chemical reaction to model the above situation.
b) Is this reaction stoichiometric? Explain your reasoning.
c) 60 g of barium chloride reacts with 28.5 g of sodium chlorate. Which are the limiting and excess
reagents?
d) The percentage yield of this reaction is 84.5%. What is its actual yield?
3. Gold (III) sulfide reacts with hydrogen gas. The production of gold from this reaction has a percentage
yield of 40%.
a) Identify this reaction.
b) Write a balanced chemical equation to model the above situation.
c) If 2.5 kg of gold (III) sulfide reacts with 5 kg of hydrogen gas, identify the limiting and excess
reagents.
d) If 2.5 kg of gold (III) sulfide reacts with 5 kg of hydrogen gas, determine the actual yield of gold.
e) How much of the limiting reactant goes unused?
4. Use the following equation to answer the following questions: Pb(OH) 4+2H2SO4 Pb(SO4)2+4H2O
a) Are the quantities in this equation stoichiometric? Explain your reasoning.
b) How many mol of sulfuric acid are required to produce 5.65 mol Pb(SO 4)2?
c) What mass of Pb(OH)4 is required to produce 77 g H2O?
d) How many mol of Pb(OH)4 are required to produce 3.6 kg of Pb(SO4)2?
5. a) Define the term stoichiometry.
b) Use the following equation to explain what is meant by stoichiometric quantities.
N2 + 3H2 2NH3
c) Use the equation above to prove the Law of Conservation of Mass.
d) Would having a Law of Conservation of Moles be justified? Why or why not?
e) What is the limiting reactant? What is its importance in solving chemical equations?
f) Percentage yield is rarely 100% in chemical reaction? Why?

SCH 3U Practice Tests: Goncalves


6. Which of the following would not be studied in the branch of chemistry called stoichiometry?
a) the mole ratio of aluminum and chlorine needed to make aluminum chloride
b) the number of electrons transferred to make the ionic bonds in calcium fluoride
c) the mass carbon produced when a known mass of sucrose decomposes
d) the number of moles of hydrogen that reacts completely with a known quantity of oxygen
7. Which controls the product formed in a chemical reaction?
a) excess reagent
c) percentage reagent
b) mole ratio
d) limiting reagent
8. What is the measured amount of product obtained from a chemical reaction?
a) mole ratio
c) theoretical yield
b) percentage yield
d) actual yield
9. In most chemical reactions, the amount of product obtained is:
a) equal to the theoretical yield
c) more than the theoretical yield
b) less than the theoretical yield
d) more than the percentage yield
10. What is the maximum possible amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction?
a) theoretical yield
c) mole ratio
b) percentage yield
d) actual yield
11. If the percentage yield is equal to 100%:
a) actual yield > theoretical yield
c) actual yield = theoretical yield
b) actual yield < theoretical yield
d) there was no limiting reagent
12. In the reaction represented by the equation 2Al 2O3 4Al + 3O2, what is the mole ratio of aluminum
to oxygen?
a) 10:6
b) 2:3
c) 3:4
d) 4:3
13. In the equation 2KClO3 2KCl + 3O2, how many moles of oxygen are produced when 3 mol of
KClO3 decompose completely?
a) 1 mol
b) 3 mol
c) 2.5 mol
d) 4.5 mol
14. The reaction of 7.8 g benzene, C6H6, with excess HNO3, resulted in 0.90 g of H2O. What is the
percentage yield?
C6H6 + HNO3 C6H5NO2 + H2O
a) 100%
b) 90%
c) 50%
d) 25%
e) 12%
f) 2%

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