1.

Which of the following descriptions would not be

applicable to ceramics?
• a. Mixed ionic and covalent bonding
• b. Brittle
• c. Hard
• d. Ductile
• e. Structure comprising Metal cations with non-
metallic anions
2. Particles that most effects material properties

(a) Neutrons
(b) Protons
(c) Electrons
(d) Valence electrons
3. Which one of the following is not a strong bond?

(a) van der Waals bond

(b) Covalent bond
(c) Metallic bond
(d) Ionic bond
4. Repeatable entity of a crystal structure is known as

(a) Crystal
(b) Lattice
(c) Unit cell
(d) Miller indices
5. Coordination number for closest packed crystal structure

(a) 16
(b) 12
(c) 8
(d) 4
6. Atomic packing factor is

(a) Distance between two adjacent atoms

(b) Projected area fraction of atoms on a plane
(c) Volume fraction of atoms in cell
(d) None
7. Coordination number in simple cubic crystal structure

(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 8
8. The atomic diameter of an BCC crystal (if a is lattice
parameter) is

(a) 2a
(b) a/2
(c) a/(4/√3)
(d) (√3a/2)
9. Repeatable unit of polymers

(a) isomer
(b) copolymer
(c) monopolymer
(d) mer
10. The plane (1⎯11) is parallel to

(a) (⎯11⎯1)
(b) (⎯1⎯11)
(c) (111)
(d) (1⎯11)
11. For a coordination number of four, anion sits at the
center of ……..where corners are occupied by cations

(a) Cube
(b) Tetrahedron
(c) Triangle
(d) Octahedron
12. What type of bonding makes up ceramic materials?

a. covalent bonds
b. London dispersion forces
c. metallic bonds
d. ionic bonds
13. What is the first known human-made material?

(a) Ceramic
(b) Bronze
(c) Flint arrowheads
(d) Copper
14. Cellulose is the main constituent of most
__________ fibres.

a. Spandex
b. acrylic
c. synthetic
d. natural
15. In addition of polymers functional groups may be
present at/with the

a. end
b. terminal
c. side-chain
d. all of them
16. Large molecules made up of small monomers are
called

a. peptides
b. polymers
c. peptones
d. monomers
17. Plastics we use in our everyday life is made up of

a. wood
b. rubber
c. polymers
d. all of them
 In additional polymerization, unsaturated monomers
contain

a. single bond
b. double bond
c. triple bond
d. james bond
19. In additional polymerization, a monomer with double
bond will simply

a. turn into single bond

b. remain same
c. break
d. get rotated
20. Using more than one type of unsaturated monomer will
produce a

a. co-polymer
b. polyamides
c. polyesters
d. polytone
21.
22. The word ‘polymer’ meant for material made from
______________.

• (a) Single entity

• (b) Two entities
• (c) Multiple entities
• (d) Any entity
23. Polymers are ___________ in nature.

• (a) Organic
• (b) Inorganic
• (c) Both (a) and (b)
• (d) None
24-35
 5 pts each (36-50)
Label the lattice, type of packing,
coordination no., no. of atoms and apf

*cubic, simple cubic, 6, 1, 0.52

*cubic, Body Centered Cubic, 8, 2, 0.68
*cubic, Face Centered Cubic, 12, 2, 0.74