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English Language Ability Quiz for SNAP entrance exam

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

Directions
(Questions 1-3): Choose the correct alternative to complete the meaning of the
given sentence

1.
The ________managed to deceive the entire village

(a) Renegade

(b) Sycophant

(c) Charlatan

(d) Actor

2.
She ordered the taxi driver, ‘Drive faster, ________?’

(a) won’t you

(b) will you

(c) you Must

(d) can’t you

3.
Her written statement failed to be consistent ________ what she had said
earlier

(a) on               (b)
with            (c) in                (d) to

4.
Choose the antonym nearest in meaning to the word. Facetious:

(a) Serious

(b) Uneasy

(c) Pleasant

(d) Cross

5.
Which one of the following alternatives is spelt correctly?

(a) Extacy

(b) Ecstasy

(c) Ecstacy

(d) Extasy

6.
Choose the correct alternative that best explains the following idiom. Writing
on the wall

(a) Graffiti

(b) Obvious truth

(c) Foreboding

(d) Prediction

7.
Choose the correct set of alternatives to fill in the blanks.

Although
many of the members were ________ about the impending deal, others were _______
about the benefits it would bring.

(a) Euphoric ……….. confident

(b) Optimistic ……….. dubious

(c) Angry ……….. skeptical

(d) Confused ……….. pleased

8.
Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that
expressed by the original pair. BROOK : RIVER

(a) vein:artery

(b) path:highway

(c) yard:alley

(d) pen:paper

9.
‘But for cancer I would not have given up smoking’. ‘But’ in this sentence is

(a) an adverb

(b) a preposition

(c) an adjective

(d) a verb

10.
Here is my list oranges, potatoes, garbage bags and a tooth brush. After the
word ‘list’ identify which one of the following is required.

(a) Colon

(b) Quotation marks

(c) Semicolon

(d) None of these

11.
Identify the grammatical error in the sentence below by choosing one of the
alternatives. My main reason for learning pharmacy was that my brother was one.

(a) Dangling modifier

(b) Faulty parallelism

(c) Faulty reference by pronoun

(d) The sentence is correct

12.
For the following pair of sentences choose the correct option

I.
The team quickly took their positions on the field.

II.
The team quickly took its position on the field.

(a) The first sentence is wrong

(b) The second sentence is wrong

(c) Both are correct

(d) Both are wrong

Directions
(Questions 13-14): Choose erroneous segment in bold or option ‘d’ if no
error.

13. He carried his clothes (a)/ in a black
heavy (b)/ steel trunk (c)/ No error (d)

14. The
corpse (a)/ had been dead (b)/ for five days (c)/ No error (d)  
             

15.
Identify the odd one.

(a)
Ashoka was one of the greatest kings.

(b)
Ashoka was greater than many other kings.

(c)
Ashoka was the greatest king.

(d)
Very few kings were as great as Ashoka.

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Answers

1(c)    2(b)    
3(b)    4(a)     5(b)    
6(c)   7(b)    8(b)    
9(b)    10(a)    11(c)   
12(a)     13(b)    14(b)     15(c)