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This quiz consists of questions from
various past papers of MBA entrance exams. Leave your answers/ responses in the
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Directions for Questions 1 to 3: In each
question, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph.
Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms
of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.

1.

A. When I returned to home, I began to read

B. everything I could get my hand on about
Israel.

C. That same year Israel’s Jewish Agency
sent

D. a Shaliach a sort of recruiter to
Minneapolis.

E. I became one of his most active
devotees.

(1) C & E          (2) C only         (3)
E only         (4) B, C & E    (5) C, D & E

2.

A. So once an economy is actually in a
recession,

B. the authorities can, in principle, move
the economy

C. out of slump – assuming hypothetically

D. that they know how to – by a temporary
stimuli.

E. In the longer term, however, such
polices have no affect on the overall behaviour of the economy.

(1) 
A, B & E                (2) B,
C & E     (3) C & D         (4) E only         (5) B only

3.

A. It is sometimes told that democratic

B. government originated in the city-states

C. of ancient Greece. Democratic ideals
have been handed to us from that time.

D. In truth, however, this is an unhelpful
assertion.

E. The Greeks gave us the word, hence did
not provide us with a model.

(1) A, B & D                 (2) B, C & D                 (3)
B & D                     (4) B only         (5) D only

Directions for Questions 4 to 7: In each
question, there are five sentences/paragraphs. The sentence/ paragraph labelled
A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and
need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage.
From the given options, choose the most appropriate one.

4.

A. In America, highly educated women, who
are in stronger position in the labour market than less qualified ones, have
higher rates of marriage than other groups.

B. Some work supports the Becker thesis,
and some appears to contradict it.

C. And, as with crime, it is equally
inconclusive.

D. But regardless of the conclusion of any particular
piece of work, it is hard to establish convincing connections between family
changes and economic factors using conventional approaches.

E. Indeed, just as with crime, an enormous
academic literature exists on the validity of the pure economic approach to the
evolution of family structures.

(1) BCDE          (2)
DBEC          (3) BDCE          (4) EBCD         (5) ECBD

5.

A. Personal experience of mothering and
motherhood are largely framed in relation to two discernible or “official”
discourses: the “medical discourse and natural childbirth discourse”. Both of
these tend to focus on the “optimistic stories” of birth and mothering and
underpin stereotypes of the “good mother”.

B. At the same time, the need for medical
expert guidance is also a feature for contemporary reproduction and motherhood.
But constructions of good mothering have not always been so conceived – and in
different contexts may exist in parallel to other equally dominant discourses.

C. Similarly, historical work has shown how
what are now taken-for-granted aspects of reproduction and mothering practices
result from contemporary “pseudoscientific directives” and “managed
constructs”. These changes have led to a reframing of modern discourses that
pattern pregnancy and motherhood leading to an acceptance of the need for
greater expert management.

D. The contrasting, overlapping, and
ambiguous strands within these frameworks focus to varying degrees on a woman’s
biological tie to her child and predisposition to instinctively know and be
able to care for her child.

E. In addition, a third, “unofficial
popular discourse” comprising “old wives” tales and based on maternal
experiences of childbirth has also been noted. These discourses have also been
acknowledged in work exploring the experiences of those who apparently do not
“conform” to conventional stereotypes of the “good mother”.

(1) EDBC          (2)
BCED          (3) DBCE          (4) EDCB          (5) BCDE

6.

A. Indonesia has experienced dramatic
shifts in its formal governance arrangements since the fall of President
Soeharto and the close of his centralized, authoritarian “New Order” regime in
1997.

B. The political system has taken its place
in the nearly 10 years since Reformasi began. It has featured the active
contest for political office among a proliferation of parties at central,
provincial and district levels; direct elections for the presidency (since
2004); and radical changes in centre-local government relations towards
administrative, fiscal, and political decentralization.

C. The mass media, once tidily under Soeharto’s
thumb, has experienced significant liberalization, as has the legal basis for
non-governmental organizations, including many dedicated to such controversial
issues as corruption control and human rights.

D. Such developments are seen optimistically
by a number of donors and some external analysts, who interpret them as signs
of Indonesia’s political normalization.

E. A different group of analysts paint a
picture in which the institutional forms have changed, bitt power relations
have not. Vedi Hadiz argues that Indonesia’s “democratic transition” has been
anything but linear.

(1) BDEC          (2)
CBDE          (3) CEBD          (4) DEBC         (5) BCDE

7.

A. I had six thousand acres of land, and
had thus got much spare land besides the coffee plantation. Part of the farm was
native forest, and about one thousand acres were squatters’ land, what [the
Kikuyu] called their shambas.

B. The squatters’ land was more intensely
alive than the rest of the farm, and was changing with the seasons the year
round. The maize grew up higher than your head as you walked on the narrow
hard-trampled footpaths in between the tall green rustling regiments.

C. The squatters are Natives, who with
their families hold a few acres on a white man’s farm, and in return have to
work for him a certain number of days in the year. My squatters, I think, saw
the relationship in a different light, for many of them were born on the farm,
and their fathers before them, and they very likely regarded me as a sort of
superior squatter on their estates.

D. The Kikuyu also grew the sweet potatoes
that have a vine like leaf and spread over the ground like a dense entangled
mat, and many varieties of big yellow and green speckled pumpkins.

E. The beans ripened in the fields, were
gathered and thrashed by the women, and the maize stalks and coffee pods were
collected and burned, so that in certain seasons thin blue columns of smoke
rose here and there all over the farm.

(1) CBDE          (2)
BCDE          (3) CBED          (4) DBCE         (5) EDBC

Directions for Questions 8 to 10: In each question,
there are four sentences. Each sentence has pairs of words/phrases that are
italicized and highlighted. From the italicized and highlighted
word(s)/phrase(s), select the most appropriate word(s)/phrase(s) to form
correct sentences. Then, from the options given, choose the best one.

8. The cricket council that was [A] /
were [B] elected last March is [A]
/ are [B] at sixes and sevens over
new rules.

The critics censored [A] / censured [B]
the new movie because of its social unacceptability.

Amit’s explanation for
missing the meeting was credulous [A] / credible [B].

She coughed discreetly [A] / discretely
[B] to announce her presence.

(1) BBAAA       (2)
AAABA      (3) BBBBA       (4) AABBA       (5)
BBBAA

9. The further  [A] / farther [B] he pushed himself, the
more disillusioned he grew.

For the crowds it was more of a historical [A] / historic [B] event;
for their leader, it was just another day.

The old man has a healthy distrust [A] / mistrust [B] for all new
technology.

This film is based on a real 
[A] true [B] story.

One suspects that the compliment [A] / complement [B] was backhanded.

(1) BABAB       (2)
ABBBA       (3) BAABA       (4) BBAAB      
(5) ABABA

10. Regrettably
[A] / Regretfully [B] I have to decline your invitation.

I am drawn to the poetic, sensual [A] / sensuous [B] quality of
her paintings.

He was besides
[A] / beside [B] himself with rage when I told him what I had done.

After brushing against a stationary [A] / stationery  [B] truck my car turned turtle.

As the water began to rise over [A] / above [B] the danger mark,
the signs of an imminent flood were clear.

(1) BAABA       (2)
BBBAB       (3) AAABA      (4) BBAAB      (5) BABAB

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Answers

1(1)    2(5)    
3(3)    4(5)     5(1)    
6(5)   7(3)    8(4)    
9(5)    10(2)