FREE NEET CHEMISTRY PRACTICE QUESTIONS-Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers

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Practicing the NEET chemistry questions can help you identify weaknesses in each subject. Knowing your weaknesses can help you transform them into your strengths.  Chemistry is considered as the most scoring subject in NEET and you should try to practice as many questions from this subject to improve your overall score in NEET. Here are 10 free sample NEET questions from Alcohol, Phenol and Ethers. Practice them and test your understanding.

Q1.Given are cyclohexanol (I), acetic acid (II), 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (III) and phenol (IV). In these the order of decreasing acidic character will be

A. III>II>IV>I

B. II>III>I>IV

C. II>III>IV>I

D. III>IV>II>I

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Q2. When glycerol is treated with excess of HI, it produces

A. 2-iodopropane

B. allyl iodide

C. propene

D. glycerol triiodide

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Q3. Which of the following is correct?

A. On reduction, any aldehyde gives secondary alcohol.

B. Reaction of vegetable oil with H2SO4 gives glycerine.

C. Alcoholic iodine with NaOH gives iodoform.

D. Sucrose on reaction with NaCl gives invertsugar.

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Q4. Iodoform test is not given by

A. ethanal

B. ethanol

C. 2-pentanone

D. 3-pentanone

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Q5. Which one of the following compounds is resistant to nucleophilic attack by hydroxyl ions?

A. Diethyl ether

B. Acetonitrile

C. Acetamide

D. Methyl acetate

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Q6. Increasing order of acid strength among p-methoxyphenol, p-methylphenol and p-nitrophenol is

A. p-nitrophenol, p-methoxyphenol, p-methylphenol

B. p-methylphenol, p-methoxyphenol, p-nitrophenol

C. p-nitrophenol, p-methylphenol, p-methoxyphenol

D. p-methoxyphenol, p-methylphenol, p-nitrophenol.

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Q7. What is formed when a primary alcohol undergoes catalytic dehydrogenation?

A. Aldehyde

B. Ketone

C. Alkene

D. Acid

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Q8.Which of the following compound is glycerine?

A. One primary – OH group is present

B. Two primary – OH groups are present

C. One secondary – OH group is present

D. both (b) and (c)

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Q9. Intermolecular hydrogen bonding is strongest in

A. methylamine

B. phenol

C. formaldehyde

D. methanol.

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Q10. In Oppenauer’s oxidation,

A. secondary alcohol is – oxidized to carboxylic acid in acetone solvent using – aluminum tertiary butoxide

B. secondary alcohol is – oxidized to carboxylic acid without affecting the C=C or C≡C bond by – aluminum tertiary butoxide in acetone solvent

C. secondary alcohol is – oxidized to ketone without affecting C=C or C≡C bond by aluminium tertiary butoxide

D. secondary alcohol is – oxidized to ketone by chromic acid – pyridine complex.

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