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Verbal Aptitude Quiz for MBA entrance exams

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 – 2: Identify antonyms for the following words.

1.
Risible:

A. serious        B.
amusing      C. ludicrous     D. ridiculous

2.
Tenebrous:

A. dark             B.
truthful        C. bright          D. quarrelsome

Directions
for questions 3 – 4: A partially completed paragraph is below, followed by
fillers a, b, c. From options A, B, C and D, identify the right combination and
order of fillers a, b or c that will best complete the paragraph.

3.
In cultivating team spirit, one should not forget the importance of discipline.
(___________) It is the duty of all the members of the team to observe
discipline in its proper perspective.

a.
A proper team spirit can seldom be based on discipline.

b.
It is a well known fact that team spirit and discipline can never go hand in
hand

c.
Discipline in its right perspective would mean sacrificing self to some extent.

A. a and b only            B.
b and c only            C. Either a or b
only                D. c only

4.
Forests are gifts of nature (______________). Yet, with the spread of
civilisation, man has not only spurned the forests, but has been ruthlessly
destroying them.

a.
It is on historical record that the vast Sahara desert of today once used to be
full of thick forests.

b.
A large part of humanity still lives deep inside forests, particularly in the
tropical regions of the earth.

c.
Human evolution itself has taken place in the forests.

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

Direction
for question 5: Given below are the first and last parts of a sentence, and the
remaining sentence is broken into four parts p, q, r and s. From A, B, C and D,
choose the arrangement of these parts that forms a complete, meaningful
sentence.

5.
A number of measures _________________ of the Municipal Corporations.

p.
The financial conditions.

q.
For mobilisation of resources

r.
In order to improve

s.
Are being taken by the State Governments

A. psqr             B.
qrsp             C. rsqp             D. sqrp

6.
Which of the following cannot be termed as an ‘oxymoron’?

A. a living death

B. conspicuous by one’s absence

C. the sound of music

D. deafening silence

Direction
for question 7: In the following question, the options A, B, C and D have a
word written in four different ways, of which only one is correct. Identify the
correctly spelt word.

7.

A.
Septaganarian

B.
Septagenarian

C.
Septagenurian

D.
Septuagenarian

Direction
for question 8: In the following question, a sentence has been broken up into
parts, and the parts have been scrambled and numbered. Choose the correct order
of these parts from the alternatives A, B, C and D.

8.

1.
food supply

2.
storage, distribution and handling

3.
pastoral industry and fishing

4.
besides increasing

5.
by preventing wastage in

6.
the productivity from agriculture

7.
can be increased

A. 1, 7, 5, 2, 4, 3, 6

B. 4, 1, 6, 7, 5, 3, 2

C. 4, 6, 3 ,1, 7, 5, 2

D. 6, 3, 5, 7, 4, 1, 2

Directions
for questions 9 – 10: In each of the following questions a sentence is given in
“Direct Speech “Identify the right alternative A, B, C or D which
best expresses this sentence in “Indirect Speech”.

9.
He said to her, “Are you coming to the party?”

A. He asked her whether she was coming to
the party.

B. He enquired with her if she was coming
to the party.

C. He asked her if she was coming to the
party.

D. He asked her if she will be coming to
the party.

10.
The teacher said,”Be quiet,boys.”        

A. The teacher ordered that the boys should
be quiet.

B. The teacher called the boys and ordered
them to be quiet.

C. The teacher urged the boys to be quiet.

D. The teacher commanded the boys that they
be quiet.

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Answers

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

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