Logical Reasoning Quiz for MBA entrance exams

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Question
No. 1-5: In a game, “words” (meaningful or meaningless) consist of
any combination of at least five letters of the English alphabets. A
“sentence” consists of exactly six words and satisfies the following
conditions:

The
six words are written from left to right on a single line in alphabetical
order. The sentence can start with any word, and successive word is formed by
applying exactly one of three operations to the preceding word: delete one
letter; add a letter; replace a one letter with another. At the most three of
the six words can begin with the same letter. Except for the first word, each
word is formed by a different operation used for the preceding word. 

1.
Which one of the following could be a sentence in the word game?

(A) Bzaeak blaeak laeak paeak paea paean

(B) Crobek croeek roeek soeek sxoeek xoeek

(C) Doteam goleam golean olean omean omman

(D) Feted freted reted seted seteg aseteg

(E) Forod forol forols forpls orpls morpls

2.
The last letter of the English alphabet that the first word of a sentence in
the word game can begin with is

(A) t     (B) w    (C) x     (D) y  
(E) z

3.
If the first word in a sentence is “illicit” and the fourth word is “licit”,
then the third word can be

(A) Implicit      (B) Explicit       (C) Enlist          (D)
Inlist          (E) Elicit

4.
If “clean” is the first word in a sentence and “learn” is another word in the
sentence, then which one of the following is a complete and accurate list of
the positions “learn” could occupy?

(A) Third          (B) Second, third, fourth         (C)
Third, fourth          (D) Third, fourth,
fifth           (E) Third, fourth, fifth,
sixth

5.
If the first word in a sentence consists of five letters, then the maximum
number of letters that the fifth word in the sentence could contain is

(A) Four           (B) Five            (C)
Six              (D) Seven         (E) Eight

Question
No 6-9: Professor Mukhopadhay works only on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Fridays, and Saturdays. She performs four different activities – Lecturing,
Conducting quizzes, evaluating quizzes and working on consultancy projects.
Each working day she performs exactly one activity in the morning and exactly
one activity in the afternoon. During each week her work schedule MUST satisfy
the following restrictions:

She
conducts quizzes on exactly three mornings.

If
she conducts quizzes on Monday, she does not conduct a quiz on Tuesday.

She
lectures in the afternoon on exactly two consecutive calendar days.

She
evaluates quizzes on exactly one morning and three afternoons.

She
works on consultancy project on exactly one morning.

On
Saturday, she neither lectures nor conducts quizzes. 

6.
On Wednesdays, the professor could be scheduled to?

(A) Work on a consultancy project
in the morning and conduct a quiz in the afternoon

(B) Lecture in the morning and
evaluate quizzes in the afternoon.

(C) Conduct a quiz in the morning
and lecture in the afternoon

(D) Conduct a quiz in the morning
and work on consultancy project in the afternoon.

(E) Evaluate quizzes in the
morning and evaluate quizzes in the afternoon.

7.
Which of the following statements must be true?

(A) There is one day on which she
evaluates quizzes both in the morning and in the afternoon

(B) She works on the consultancy
project on one of the days on which lectures.

(C) She works on consultancy
project on one of the days on which she evaluates quizzes.

(D) She lectures on one of the
days on which evaluates quizzes.

(E) She lectures on one of the
days on which she conducts quiz.

8.
If the Professor conducts a quiz on Tuesday, then her schedule for evaluating
quizzes could be?

(A) Monday morning, Monday
afternoon, Friday morning, Friday afternoon

(B) Monday morning, Friday
afternoon, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon

(C) Monday afternoon, Wednesday
morning, Wednesday afternoon, Saturday afternoon

(D) Wednesday morning, Wednesday
afternoon, Friday afternoon, Saturday afternoon

(E) Wednesday afternoon, Friday
afternoon, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon

9.
Which one of the following must be a day on which professor lectures?

(A) Monday                 (B)
Tuesday     (C) Wednesday            (D) Friday        (E)
Saturday

10.
The surnames of four professionals are: Bannerji, Chatterji, Mukherji and
Pestonji. Their professions are accountant, lawyer, dentist and doctor (not
necessarily in this order). The accountant and lawyer work in their offices,
while the dentist and doctor work in their nursing homes. The accountant looks
after Mukherji‟s and Chatterji‟s account. Chatterji, does not know Bannerji,
although his nursing home is in the same street as Bannerji‟s office. Chatterji
is not a doctor.

What
are the occupations of the four people?

(A) Bannerji – Doctor, Chatterji
– Dentist, Mukherji – Accountant and Pestonji – Lawyer

(B) Bannerji – Lawyer, Chatterji
– Dentist, Mukherji – Accountant and Pestonji – Doctor

(C) Bannerji – Doctor, Chatterji
-Accountant, Mukherji – Dentist and Pestonji – Lawyer

(D) Bannerji – Lawyer, Chatterji
– Dentist, Mukherji – Doctor and Pestonji – Accountant

(E) Bannerji – Dentist, Chatterji
– Lawyer, Mukherji – Doctor and Pestonji – Accountant

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Answers

1(b)    2(c)    
3(e)    4(e)     5(d)    
6(c)   7(e)    8(e)    
9(b)    10(d)   

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