Module 5 Quiz – Engineering Materials
1. What physical property of a material
that refers to the temperature at which
ferromagnetic materials can no longer
be magnetized by outside forces
a. Curie Point
b. Thermal expansion
c. Melting point
d. Thermal conductivity
2. What physical property of a material
refers to the amount of weight gain (%)
experienced in a polymer after
immersion in water for a specified
length of time under a controlled
environment?
a. Thermal conductivity
b. Electric resistivity
c. Dielectric strength
d. Water absorption
3. What physical property of a material
that refers to the rate of heat flow per
unit time in a homogenous material
under steady-state conditions per unit
are, per unit temperature gradient in a
direction perpendicular to area?
a. Thermal conductivity
b. Thermal expansion
c. Water absorption
d. Heat distortion temperature
4. What physical property of a material
refers to the highest potential
difference (voltage) that an insulting
material of given thickness can
withstand for a specified time without
occurrence of electrical breakdown
through its bulk?
a. Dielectric strength
b. Thermal expansion
c. Conductivity
d. Electrical resistivity
5. What physical property of a material
refers to the ratio of the amount of heat
required to raise the temperature
of a unit mass of a substance 1 degree
to the heat required to raise the same
mass of water to 1 degree.
a. Latent heat
b. Heat of fission
c. Heat of fusion
d. Specific heat
6. What physical property of a material
refers to the temperature at which a
polymer under a specified load shows a
specified amount of deflection?
a. Heat distortion temperature
b. Specific heat
c. Thermal conductivity
d. Curie temperature
7. In what special refining process of steel
where molten metal is poured down a
tundish (chute) into an ingot mold?
a. Electroslag refining
b. Vacuum induction melting
c. Electron beam refining
d. Vacuum are melting
8. What term is used to describe a
polymer that has rubberlike properties?
a. Vulcanizer
b. Polychloroprene
c. Elasticmer
d. Elastomer
9. A large molecule with two alternating
mers is called as
_______.
a. Elastomer
b. Mers
c. Copolymer or interpolymer
d. Monomer
10. Some polymetric materials such as
epoxies are formed by strong primary
chemical bonds called
________.
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a. Covalent bond 16. When a body is resistant to heat, it is

b. Van der Waals bond called
c. Cross linking a. Thermotropic
d. Metallic bond b. Thermoplastic
c. Thermoduric
11. The property of metals that allows them d. Thermoscopic
to be drawn into thin wires beyond
their elastic limit without being 17. The property of fluids by virtue of which
ruptured is called they offer resistance to flow is known as
a. Elasticity a. Viscidity
b. Malleability b. Viscosity
c. Ductility c. Glutinosity
d. Hardness d. Gummosity

12. Interaction between the surface of two 18. The tendency of a body to return to its
closely adjacent bodies which causes original size or shape after having been
them to cling together is known as deformed is called
a. Viscosity a. Elastivity
b. Cohesion b. Elasticity
c. Friction c. Elastance
d. Adhesion d. Anelastivity

13. Solids which break above the elastic 19. The emission of light by a material
limit are called because of its high temperature is
a. Plastic known as
b. Malleable a. Scintillation
c. Ductile b. Incandescence
d. Brittle c. Luminescence
d. Phosphorescence
14. The property of some elementary
particles that causes them to exert 20. Which of the following statements is
force on one another is known as correct concerning the passage of white
a. Charge light into a glass prism?
b. Nucleon interaction a. The violet color travels slower than
c. Specific change the red color
d. Potential difference b. Greater the wavelength, slower the
speed of color
15. The property which permits the flow of c. All the colors of white light travels
current under the action of a potential the same speed
difference is called d. The violet color travels faster than
a. Conductance the red color
b. Permeance
c. Resistance 21. Property of some pure metals and their
d. Impedance alloys at extremely low temperatures of
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having negligible to the flow of an c. Thermal radiation

electric current is called d. Thermal conductivity
a. Supercooling
b. Supercharging 27. The property of an object that
c. Superfluidity determines the direction of heat flow
d. Superconductivity when in contact with another object is
called
22. The progressive decrease of a property a. Temperature
as a result of repeated stress is called b. Pyxeria
a. elastic deformation c. Caloric
b. fatigue d. Calidity
c. debility
d. rigidity 28. f the properties of a body are the same
in all directions, it is called
23. If a material is feebly repelled by a a. Isotropic
magnet it is b. Isotopic
a. Ferromagnetic c. Isogonic
b. Diamagnetic d. Isodynamic
c. Paramagnetic
d. Ferromagnetic 29. The property of an isolated conductor
to store electric charge is
24. Emission of radiations from a substance a. Conductance
during illumination by radiations of b. Capacitance
higher frequency is called c. Permeability
a. Illuminance d. Accumulation
b. Radioluminescence
c. Fluorescence 30. The property by virtue of which a body
d. Incandescence resists any attempt to change its state
of rest or motion is called
25. The property of some crystals of a. Inertia
absorbing light difference extents, b. Torpidity
thereby giving to the crystals different c. Inactivity
colors according to the direction of the d. Passivity
incident light is known as
a. Chromaticity 31. What is the amount of energy required
b. Dichromatism to fracture a given volume of material?
c. Diastrophism a. Endurance limit
d. Dichroism b. Impact strength
c. Stress rupture strength
26. The rate of flow of thermal energy d. Creep strength
through a material in the presence of a
temperature gradient is called 32. What mechanical property of a material
a. Thermal capacity which is a time-dependent permanent
b. Thermal convection strain under stress?
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a. Elongation d. Soft iron

b. Creep
c. Rupture 38. What is the resistance of a material to
d. Elasticity plastic deformation?
a. Stiffness
33. What refers to the stress at which a b. Rigidity
material exhibits a specified deviation c. Hardness
from proportionality of stress and d. Creepage
strain?
a. Flexural strength 39. Which of the following materials has
b. shear strength permeability slightly less than that of
c. Tensile strength free space?
d. Yield strength a. Ferromagnetic materials
b. Non-magnetic materials
34. The greatest stress which a material is c. Diamagnetic materials
capable of withstanding without a d. Paramagnetic materials
deviation from acceptable of stress to
strain is called _______. 40. What materials has permeabilities
a. yield point slightly greater than
b. elastic limit of free space?
c. Elongation a. Non-magnetic materials
d. proportional limit b. Diamagnetic materials
c. Ferromagnetic materials
35. What is the maximum stress below d. Paramagnetic materials
which a material can theoretically
endure an infinite number of stress 41. What is a method of forming polymer
cycles? sheets or films into three-dimensional
a. Endurance test shapes, in which the sheets is clamped
b. Endurance limit on the edge, heated until it soften and
c. endurance strength sags, drawn in contact with the mold by
d. Endurance state vacuum, and cooled while still in
contact with the mold?
36. What is a substance that attracts piece a. Thermoforming
of iron? b. Blow molding
a. Semimetal c. Calendering
b. Magnet d. Solid phase forming
c. Conductor
d. Semiconductor 42. What refers to the tendency for
polymers and molecular material to
37. Which of the following is a natural form with an ordered spatial, three-
magnet? dimensional arrangement of monomer
a. Lodestone molecules?
b. Magnesia a. Retentivity
c. Steel b. Spatial Configuration
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c. Stereospecificity 48. What is the purpose of molybdenum in

d. Corrosion resistance
43. What is measure of rigidity?
a. Stiffness
b. Strength
c. Modulus of elasticity
d. Hardness
44. What refers to the deterioration of
material by oscillatory relative motion
of small amplitude (20 to 100 µm)
between two solid surfaces in a
corrosive environment?
a. Fretting corrosion
b. Stray current corrosion
c. Filiform corrosion
d. Microbiological corrosion
45. What is a process for making glass-
reinforced shapes that can be generate
by polling resin-impregnated glass
stands through a die?
a. Vacuum bag forming
b. Continuous pultrusion
c. Resin transfer moulding
d. Bulk molding
steel alloying?
a. To increase dynamic and high-
temperature strength and hardness
b. To increase corrosion and
resistance
c. To increase brittleness
d. To reduce brittleness, combine with
sulfur
49. What field of study encompasses the
procurement and production of metals?
a. Metalgraphy
b. Geology
c. Material Science
d. Metallurgy
50. What is a process of producing a hard
surface in a steel having a sufficiently
high carbon content to respond to
hardening by a rapid cooling of the
surface?
a. Nitriding
b. Cyaniding
c. Induction hardening
d. Flame hardening

46. What refers to the application of any

process whereby the surface of steel is
altered so that it will become hard?
a. Surfacehardening
b. Casehardening
c. Caburizing
d. Annealing

47. What structure is formed when

transformation occurs at temperatures
down to the knee of the curve?
a. Bainite
b. Martensite
c. Pearlite
d. Austenite