Dear readers,

This quiz consists of questions from various past papers of
MBA entrance exams. Leave your answers/ responses in the comments section below
and soon we’ll let you know the correct answers!

Directions for questions 1 to 5: In each of the
sentences, parts of the sentence are left blank. Beneath each sentence, four
different ways of completing the sentence are indicated. Choose the best
alternative from among the four.

1. Though one eye is kept firmly on the ________, the
company now also promotes __________ contemporary art.

a. present, experimental

b. future, popular

c. present, popular

d. market, popular

2. The law prohibits a person from felling a
sandalwood tree, even if it grows on one’s own land, without prior permission
from the government. As poor people cannot deal with the government, this legal
provision leads to a rip-roaring business for ________, who care neither for
the _________, nor for the trees.

a. middlemen, rich

b. the government, poor

c. touts, rich

d. touts, poor

3. It will take some time for many South Koreans to _________
the conflicting images of North Korea, let alone to _________ what to make of
their northern cousins.

a. reconcile, decide

b. understand, clarify

c. make out, decide

d. reconcile, understand

4. In these bleak and depressing times of _________
prices, non-performing governments and __________ crime rates, Sourav Ganguly
has given us, Indians, a lot to cheer about.

a. escalating, increasing

b. spiraling, booming

c. spiraling, soaring

d. ascending, debilitating

5. The manners and ________ of the nouveau riche is a
recurrent _________ in the literature.

a. style, motif

b. morals, story

c. wealth, theme

d. morals, theme

Directions for questions 6 to 10: Arrange the
sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences 1 and 6.

6.

1. Making people laugh is tricky.

A. At times, the intended humour may simply not come
off.

B. Making people laugh while trying to sell them
something is a tougher challenge, since the commercial can fall flat on two
grounds.

C. There are many advertisements which do amuse but do
not even begin to set the cash registers ringing.

D. Again, it is rarely sufficient for an advertiser
simply to amuse the target audience in order to reap the sales benefit.

6. There are indications that in substituting the
hardsell for a more entertaining approach, some agencies have rather thrown out
the baby with the bath-water.

a. CDBA          b. ABCD             c. BADC               d. DCBA

7.

1. Picture a termite colony, occupying a tall mud hump
on an African plain.

A. Hungry predators often invade the colony and
unsettle the balance.

B. The colony flourishes only if the proportion of
soldiers to workers remains roughly the same, so that the queen and workers can
be protected by the soldiers, and the queen and soldiers can be serviced by the
workers.

C. But its fortunes are presently restored, because
the immobile queen, walled in well below the ground level, lays eggs not only
in large enough numbers, but also in the varying proportions required.

D. The hump is alive with worker termites and soldier
termites going about their distinct kinds of business.

6. How can we account for a mysterious ability to
respond like this to events on the distant surface?

a. BADC          
 b. DBAC             c. ADCB             d. BDCA

8.

1. According to recent research, the critical period
for developing language skills is between the age of three and five years.

A. The read-to child already has a large vocabulary
and a sense of grammar and sentence structure.

B. Children who are read to in these years have a far
better chance of reading well in school, indeed, of doing well in all their
subjects.

C. And the reason is actually quite simple.

D. This correlation is far and away the highest yet
found between home influences and school success.

6. Their comprehension of language is therefore very
high.

a. DACD            b. ADCB              c. ABCD              d. BDCA

9.

1. High-powered outboard motors were considered to be
one of the major threats to the survival of the Beluga whales.

A. With these, hunters could approach Belugas within
hunting range and profit from its inner skin and blubber.

B. To escape an approaching motor, Belugas have learnt
to dive to the ocean bottom and stay there for up to 20 min, by which time the
confused predator has left.

C. Today, however, even with much more powerful
engines, it is difficult to come close, because the whales seem to disappear
suddenly just when you thought you had them in your sights.

D. When the first outboard engines arrived in the early
1930s, one came across 4 HP and 8 HP motors.

6. Belugas seem to have used their well-known
sensitivity to noise to evolve an ‘avoidance’ strategy to outsmart hunters and
their powerful technologies.

a. DACB            b. ACDB             c. ADCB             d. DBAC

10.

1. The reconstruction of history by post-revolutionary
science texts involves more than a multiplication of historical
misconstructions.

A. Because they aim quickly to acquaint the student
with what the contemporary scientific community thinks it knows, textbooks
treat the various experiments, concepts, laws and theories of the current
normal science as separately and as nearly seriatim as possible.

B. Those misconstructions render revolutions
invisible; the arrangement of the still visible material in science texts
implies a process that, if it existed, would deny revolutions a function. C.
But when combined with the generally unhistorical air of science writing and
with the occasional systematic misconstruction, one impression is likely to
follow.

D. As pedagogy, this technique of presentation is
unexceptionable.

6. Science has reached its present state by a series
of individual discoveries and inventions that, when gathered together,
constitute the modern body of technical knowledge.

a. BADC          b. ADCB             c. DACB               d. CBDA

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Answers

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