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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 2: In each of
the following questions, a word has been used in sentences in five different
ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the
word is incorrect or inappropriate.

1. Buckle

(1) After the long hike our knees were
beginning to buckle.

(2) The horse suddenly broke into a buckle.

(3) The accused did not buckle under police
interrogation.

(4) Sometimes, an earthquake can make a
bridge buckle.

(5) People should learn to buckle up as soon
as they get into a car.

2. File

(1) You will find the paper in the file
under C.

(2) I need to file an insurance claim.

(3) The cadets were marching in a single
file.

(4) File your nails before you apply nail
polish.

(5) When the parade was on, a soldier broke
the file.

Directions for Questions 3 to 6: Each of
the following questions has a sentence with two blanks. Given below each
question are five pairs of words. Choose the pair that best completes the
sentence.

3. The genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda,
apart from being mis-described in the most sinister and _________ manner as
‘ethnic cleansing’, were also blamed, in further hand-washing rhetoric, on
something dark and interior to __________ and perpetrators alike.

 (1) innovative; communicator

(2) enchanting; leaders

(3) disingenuous; victims

(4) exigent; exploiters

(5) tragic; sufferers

4. As navigators, calendar makers, and
other __________ of the night sky accumulated evidence to the contrary, ancient
astronomers were forced to __________ that certain bodies might move in circles
about points, which in turn moved in circles about the earth.

 (1) scrutinizers; believe

(2) observers; argue

(3) scrutinizers; suggest

(4) observers; concede

(5) students; conclude

5. Every human being, after the first few
days of his life, is a product of two factors: on the one hand, there is his
__________ endowment; and on the other hand, there is the effect of
environment, including _________.

 (1) constitutional; weather

(2) congenital; education

(3) personal; climate

(4) economic; learning

(5) genetic; pedagogy

6. Exhaustion of natural resources,
destruction of individual initiative by governments, control over men’s minds
by central _______ of education and propaganda are some of the major evils
which appear to be on the increase as a result of the impact of science upon
minds suited by __________ to an earlier kind of world.

(1) tenets; fixation

(2) aspects; inhibitions

(3) institutions; inhibitions

(4) organs; tradition

(5) departments; repulsion

Directions for Questions 7 to 10: Each of
the following questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been
deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the
paragraph in the most appropriate way.

7. Most people at their first consultation
take a furtive look at the surgeon’s hands in the hope of reassurance.
Prospective patients look for delicacy, sensitivity, steadiness, perhaps
unblemished pallor. On this basis, Henry Perowne loses a number of cases each
year. Generally, he knows it’s about to happen before the patient does: the
downward glance repeated, the prepared questions beginning to falter, the
overemphatic thanks during the retreat to the door.

(1) Other people do not communicate due to
their poor observation.

(2) Other patients don’t like what they see
but are ignorant of their right to go elsewhere.

(3) But Perowne himself is not concerned.

(4) But others will take their place, he
thought.

(5) These hands are steady enough, but they
are large.

8. Trade protectionism, disguised as
concern for the climate, is raising its head. Citing competitiveness concerns,
powerful industrialized countries are holding out threats of a levy on imports
of energy-intensive products from developing countries that refuse to accept
their demands. The actual source of protectionist sentiment in the OECD
countries is, of course, their current lacklustre economic performance,
combined with the challenges posed by the rapid economic rise of China and
India – in that order.

(1) Climate change is evoked to bring trade
protectionism through the back door.

(2) OECD countries are taking refuge in
climate change issues to erect trade barriers against these two countries.

(3) Climate change concerns have come as a
convenient stick to beat the rising trade power of China and India.

(4) Defenders of the global economic status
quo are posing as climate change champions.

(5) Today’s climate change champions are
the perpetrators of global economic inequity.

9. Mattancherry is Indian Jewry’s most
famous settlement. Its pretty streets of pastel coloured houses, connected by
first-floor passages and home to the last twelve saree-and-sarong-wearing,
whiteskinned Indian Jews are visited by thousands of tourists each year. Its
synagogue, built in 1568, with a floor of blue-and-white Chinese tiles, a
carpet given by Haile Selassie and the frosty Yaheh selling tickets at the
door, stands as an image of religious tolerance.

(1) Mattancherry represents, therefore, the
perfect picture of peaceful co-existence.

(2) India’s Jews have almost never suffered
discrimination, except for European colonizers and each other.

(3) Jews in India were always tolerant.

(4) Religious tolerance has always been
only a façade and nothing more.

(5) The pretty pastel streets are, thus,
very popular with the tourists.

10. Given the cultural and intellectual
interconnections, the question of what is ‘Western’ and what is ‘Eastern’ (or
‘Indian’) is often hard to decide, and the issue can be discussed only in more
dialectical terms. The diagnosis of a thought as ‘purely Western’ or ‘purely
Indian’ can be very illusory.

(1) Thoughts are not the kind of things
that can be easily categorized.

(2) Though ‘occidentalism’ and
‘orientalism’ as dichotomous concepts have found many adherents.

(3) ‘East is East and West is West’ has
been a discredited notion for a long time now.

(4) Compartmentalizing thoughts is often
desirable.

(5) The origin of a thought is not the kind
of thing to which ‘purity’ happens easily.

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Answers

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