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: For each of the words
below a context is provided. From the alternatives given pick the word or
phrase that is closest in meaning in the given context.

1. Opprobrium: The police officer appears oblivious to
the opprobrium generated by his blatantly partisan conduct.

1. Harsh criticism

2. Acute distrust

3. Bitter enmity

4. Stark oppressiveness

2. Portend: It appears to many that the US’ ‘war on
terrorism’ portends trouble in the Gulf.

1. Introduces

2. Evokes

3. Spells

4. Bodes

3. Prevaricate: When a videotape of her meeting was
played back to her and she was asked to explain her presence there, she started
prevaricating.

1. Speaking evasively

2. Speaking violently

3. Lying furiously

4. Throwing a tantrum

4. Restive: The crowd became restive when the minister
failed to appear even by 10 pm.

1. Violent

2. Angry

3. Restless

4. Distressed

5. Ostensible: Manohar’s ostensible job was to guard
the building at night.

1. Apparent

2. Blatant

3. Ostentatious

4. Insidious

DIRECTIONS for Questions 6 to 10: In each of the
questions, four different ways of presenting an idea are given. Choose the one
that conforms most closely to Standard English usage.

6.

A. The running of large businesses consist of getting
somebody to make something that somebody else sold to somebody else for more
than its cost.

B. The running of a large business consists of getting
somebody to make something that somebody else will sell to somebody else for
more than it costs.

C. The running of a large business consists of getting
somebody to sell something that somebody else made for more than it cost.

D. The running of large businesses consist of getting
somebody to make something else that somebody else will sell to somebody else
for more than it costs.

1. A                      2.B                      3. C                4. D

7.

A. From the sixteenth century onwards, people started
feeling disdainful and self-conscious about their body and its products that
led to a heightened focus on emotional and bodily regulations.

B. The heightened focus on controlling the body and
emotions comes from disdain and self-consciousness about the body and its
products, found in the sixteenth century.

C. From the sixteenth century onwards, a growing
disdain for and self-consciousness about the body and its products took hold,
leading to a heightened focus on emotional and bodily regulation.

D. The heightened focus on emotional and bodily
regulations started from the sixteenth century onwards, when people felt
disdain and self-consciousness about the body and its products.

1. A                   
2. B                      3. C                    4. D

8.

A. We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an
explanation for irrational events.

B. We are forced to falling back on the fatalism as an
explanation of irrational events.

C. We are forced to fall back on fatalism as explanations
of irrational events.

D. We are forced to fall back to fatalism as an
explanation of irrational events.

1. A                  
2. B                       3.
C                     4. D

9.

A. Creativity in any field is regarded not only as
valuable for itself but also as a service to the nation.

B. Creativity in any field is not regarded only as
valuable on its own, but also as a service to the nation.

C. Creativity, in any field, is not only regarded as
valuable, but also as a service to the nation. 

D. Creativity in any field is regarded not only as
valuable in itself but also as a service to the nation.

1. A                  
2. B                        3.
C                        4. D

10.

A. If precision of thought had facilitated precision
of behaviour, and if reflection had preceded action, it would be ideal for
humans.

B. It would be ideal for humans if reflection preceded
action and precision of thought facilitated precision of behaviour.

C. It would be ideal for humans if precedence of
reflection was followed by action and precision of thought, by precise
behaviour.

D. It would have been ideal for humans, if precise
action and behaviour preceded precise reflection.

1. A               
2. B                     3. C                    4. D

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Answers

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