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: The sentences given
in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each
sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences
from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1.

A. A few months ago I went to Princeton University to
see what the young people who are going to be running our country in a few
decades are like.

B. I would go to sleep in my hotel room around
midnight each night, and when I awoke, my mailbox would be full of replies-sent
at 1:15 a.m., 2:59 a.m., 3:23 a.m., etc.

C. One senior told me that she went to bed around two
and woke up each morning at seven; she could afford that much rest because she
had learned to supplement her full day of work by studying in her sleep.

D. Faculty members gave me the names of a few dozen
articulate students, and I sent them e-mails, inviting them out in small
groups, for lunch or dinner.

E.As she was falling asleep she would recite a math
problem or a paper topic to herself; she would then sometimes dream about it,
and when she woke up, the problem might be solved.

1. DABCE              2. DACEB                3. ADBCE                   4. AECBD

2.

A. Four days later, Oracle announced its own bid for PeopleSoft,
and invited the firm’s board to a discussion.

B. Furious that his own plans had been endangered,
PeopleSoft’s boss, Craig Conway, called Oracle’s offer “diabolical”, and its
boss, Larry Ellison, a “sociopath”.

C. In early June, PeopleSoft said that it would buy
J.D. Edwards, a smaller rival.

D. Moreover, said Mr. Conway, he “could imagine no
price nor combination of price and other conditions to recommend accepting the
offer.”

E. On June 12th, PeopleSoft turned Oracle down.

1. CABDE             2. CADBE              3. CEDAB                    4. CAEBD

3.

A. Surrendered, or captured, combatants cannot be
incarcerated in razor wire cages; this ‘war’ has a dubious legality.

B. How can then one characterize a conflict to be
waged against a phenomenon as war?

C. The phrase ‘war against terror’, which has passed
into the common lexicon, is a huge misnomer.

D. Besides, war has a juridical meaning in
international law, which has codified the laws of war, imbuing them with a
humanitarian content.

E. Terror is a phenomenon, not an entity-either state
or non-state.

1. ECDBA                2. BECDA                 3. EBCAD                   4. CEBDA

4.

A. I am much more intolerant of a human being’s
shortcomings than I am of an animal’s, but in this respect I have been lucky,
for most of the people I have come across have been charming.

B. Then you come across the unpleasant human
animal-the District Officer who drawled, ‘We chaps are here to help you chaps,’
and then proceeded to be as obstructive as possible.

C .In these cases of course, the fact that you are an
animal collector helps; people always seem delighted to meet someone with such
an unusual occupation and go out of their way to assist you.

D. Fortunately, these types are rare, and the pleasant
ones I have met more than compensated for them-but even so, I think I will
stick to animals.

E. When you travel across the world collecting animals
you also, of necessity, collect human beings.

1. EACBD             2. ABDCE                 3. ECBDA                     4. ACBDE

5.

A. To avoid this, the QWERTY layout put the keys most
likely to be hit in rapid succession on opposite sides. This made the keyboard
slow, the story goes, but that was the idea.

B. A different layout, which had been patented by
August Dvorak in 1936, was shown to be much faster.

C. The QWERTY design (patented by Christopher Sholes
in 1868 and sold to Remington in 1873) aimed to solve a mechanical problem of
early typewriters.

D. Yet the Dvorak layout has never been widely
adopted, even though (with electric typewriters and then PCs) the anti-jamming
rational for QWERTY has been defunct for years. E. When certain combinations of
keys were struck quickly, the type bars often jammed.

1. BDACE              2. CEABD                3. BCDEA                     4. CAEBD

DIRECTIONS for Questions 6 to 10: There are two gaps
in each of the following sentences. From the pairs of words given, choose the
one that fills the gaps most appropriately. The first word in the pair should
fill the first gap.

6. The British retailer, M&S, today formally
__________ defeat in its attempt to _________ King’s, its US subsidiary, since
no potential purchasers were ready to cough up the necessary cash.

1. admitted, acquire           2. conceded, offload             3. announced, dispose     4. ratified, auction

7. Early ___________ of maladjustment to college
culture is ___________ by the tendency to develop friendship networks outside
college which mask signals of maladjustment.

1. treatment, compounded     2. detection, facilitated         3. identification, complicated          4. prevention, helped

8. __________ regions of Spain
all have unique cultures, but the ____________ views within each region make
the issue of an acceptable common language of instruction an even more
contentious one.

1. Different, discrete            2. Distinct, disparate          3. Divergent, distinct          4. Different, competing

9. A growing number of these expert professionals
____________ having to train foreigners as the students end up ___________ the
teachers who have to then unhappily contend with no jobs at all or new jobs
with drastically reduced pay packets.

1. resent, replacing           2. resist, challenging            3. welcome, assisting          4. are, supplanting

10. Companies that try to improve employees’
performance by ___________ rewards encourage negative kinds of behavior instead
of _________ a genuine interest in doing the work well.

1. giving, seeking      2. bestowing, discouraging        3. conferring, discrediting  4. withholding, fostering

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Answers

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