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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!

Direction for questions 1 and 2: Mark the
sentences in the options (a … d), which are grammatically incorrect.

1.

a. The hearing, which had been planned for
Monday, December 2, was rescheduled for the following Friday so that all
witnesses would be able to attend.

b. In 1952, Japan’s GNP was one-third that
of France. By the late 1970s, it was larger than the combined GNP of France and
Britain.

c. The Huns who were Mongolian invaded Gaul
in 461 A.D.

d. Because Senator Martin is less
interested in the environment than in economic development, she sometimes
neglects it.

a. B and C              b.
A and D           c. Only A           d. Only B

2.

a. Because strict constructionists
recommend fidelity to the Constitution as written, no one objects more than
them to judicial reinterpretation.

b. When a candidate runs for office, they
must expect to have their personal life scrutinized.

c. Einstein, who was a brilliant
mathematician, used his ability with numbers to explain the universe.

d. Despite the cuts, there are services the
hospital has, and will continue to provide to doctors.

a. D and C          b.
A, B and D           c. Only A           d. Only C

Directions for questions 3 and 4: Each
question has four sentences. Mark all the options where the underlined word in
the sentence is inappropriately used.

3.

a. There is luxuriant vegetation in the tropics.

b. Her luxuriant
black hair is the most beautiful I have ever seen.

c. He owns a luxurious yacht.

d. Coral grows luxuriously on that reef.

4.

a. Do you prophecy a return to war-time prosperity?

b. He prophesied
that the end of the world would come within two weeks.

c. He is an expert at prophesying.

d. They made many dire prophecies, none of which ever came true.

Directions for questions 5 to 8: The
following questions have two sentences, each with one blank. From the first
three options (a…c) provided, pick the one that best fits both the sentences;
otherwisemark option d.

5.

i. As indigenous peoples are denied access
to their traditional lands, their cultures are dying. The result is that now
over half the world’s languages are ________, meaning that only elderly people
speak those languages.

ii. The third aim, the big one, is to
convince Lockists that their research program is ________, and Gauker’s contextualist
alternative is the way of the future.

a. moribund          b. sycophantic          c. garrulous       d. none of
those

6.

i. A soft monotonous tone is _________ for
the audience.

ii. It was many months since Whitehead had
gone to bed sober. He’s started to use vodka as a __________ when the night
terrors began.

a. maverick              b. palladium          c.
soporific         d. none of
these

7.

i. This seems pretty __________ considering
that fair use itself is a grey area rather than a fine line, why superimpose a
fine line here?

ii. He was greeted with half a dozen really
_________ comments about his grammar and use of capitals at the beginning of
sentences. They completely detailed the thread.

a. incriminate            b. puerile              c.
adjure         d. none of
these

8.

i. The target for reducing the use of penal
custody for children by 10% by 2008 is ________ and won’t happen unless the
youth court magistrates get on board.

ii. A _________ Prime Minister Jean
Chretien, with a keen political eye for embracing these groups, decided to send
token and combat-avoiding units to Afghanistan, reinforcing views across Canada
that America’s pursuits and actions were ignoble from the start.

a. placative                 b. egregious               c.
congenital              d. none of these

Directions for Questions 9 to 10: 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.

9. 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.

(a) innovative; communicator

(b) enchanting; leaders

(c) disingenuous; victims

(d) exigent; exploiters

10. 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.

(a) scrutinizers; believe

(b) observers; agree

(c) scrutinizers; suggest

(d) observers; concede

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Answers

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