Past Questions And Answers
Law of libel and defamation of character violates right to freedom of
- A. fair hearing
- B. religion
- C. expression
- D. association
A constitution that requires an absolute majority of members of parliament to amend is a
- A. confederal constitution
- B. federal constitution
- C. flexible constitution
- D. rigid constitution
(a) (i) Listtwo gaseous pollutants that can be generated by burning coal.
(ii) Explain briefly why coal burns more easily when it is brokeninto pieces than when it is in lumps.
(iii What gas is responsible formost of the explosions in coal mines?
(iv) Name the non-volatile residue left behind after the destructive distillation of coal.
(b) Stateone oxide ineach case which:
(i) is used in bleaching;
(ii) oxidizes hot concentrated HCl to chlorine;
(iii) dissolves in water to give a solution withpH greater than 7;
(iv) reacts with NaOH and also with HCl;
(v) is a reddish-brown gas.
(c) (i) Write a balanced chemical equation for the reaction between chlorine gas and iron(II) chloride solution.
(ii) State the type of reaction in(c)(i).
(iii) Give a reason for your answer in(c)(ii).
(d) Consider the following set-up:
(i) IdentifyA andB.
(ii) Write a balanced chemical equation for the reaction.
(iii) Name the gas produced.
(iv) Why was the flask tilted downwards?
(v) What is the:
(I) function of B in the experiment;
(II) method of collection of the gas?
(e) Giveone product obtained from refining petroleum that is solid.

After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of the sentence is given. Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for each sentence.
The accountant falsified the records in order to feather his own nest. This means that the accountant tried to
- A. deceive his boss
- B. put a feather in his cap
- C. make himself rich
- D. avenge a wrong done to him by his boos
Select the wrongly spelt words
- A. occurrence
- B. surprise
- C. personnel
- D. posses
The speculator who applies for a new issue of shares without the intention of keeping them is
- A. bull
- B. stag
- C. bear
- D. jobber
Excluded from inheritance is a
- A. Brother from the estate of his deceased brother
- B. Man after the death of his wife
- C. Person who kills his father for his estate
- D. Woman because of her gender
The land-use activities which can be considered responsible for soil erosion in the tropics are
- A. irrigation, terrace farming and crop rotation
- B. mining, bush fallowing and market gardening
- C. industrialization, monoculture and lumbering
- D. bush fallowing, overgrazing and monoculture
The factor of production that has the highest degree of mobility is__________?
- A. entrepreneurship
- B. land
- C. labour
- D. capital
Which of the following rocks is charaterized by layer formation and strata?
- A. Metamorphic
- B. Volcanic
- C. Sedimentary
- D. Igneous

