Your examiner asks: "What documents must accompany a shipment of dangerous goods before you load it?"

A. A Dangerous Goods Declaration from the shipper (stating UN number, class, packing group, proper shipping name, marine pollutant status if applicable) and a signed Container/Vehicle Packing Certificate confirming the container was correctly packed, segregated, marked, labelled and is in a fit condition for carriage — the master/OOW should not load DG cargo without these.

B. No documentation is required for DG cargo provided the container is correctly placarded externally.

C. Only a commercial invoice for the goods is required; the IMDG Code has no specific declaration requirement.

D. The Packing Certificate is only required for break-bulk dangerous goods, not for containerised cargo.

A. Nine classes: 1 Explosives, 2 Gases (2.1 flammable, 2.2 non-flammable non-toxic, 2.3 toxic), 3 Flammable liquids, 4 Flammable solids/substances liable to spontaneous combustion/substances dangerous when wet, 5 Oxidising substances and organic peroxides, 6 Toxic and infectious substances, 7 Radioactive material, 8 Corrosives, 9 Miscellaneous dangerous substances and articles.

B. Eight classes, ending at Class 8 (Corrosives) — there is no Class 9.

C. Six classes, mirroring the IMSBC Code's Group A/B/C cargo classification.

D. The IMDG Code does not classify goods into numbered classes; classification is done solely by UN number with no class system.

A. The IMDG Code segregation table uses terms including "Away from," "Separated from," "Separated by a complete compartment or hold from," and "Separated longitudinally by an intervening complete compartment or hold from" — each representing an increasing physical/spatial separation requirement between incompatible classes, applied via the segregation table cross-referencing hazard classes against each other.

B. IMDG segregation has only one category: "stow apart," with no graduated levels of separation.

C. Segregation categories apply only to Class 1 (Explosives); other classes have no segregation requirement between each other.

D. Segregation terms describe segregation from crew accommodation only, not between different cargo classes.