Practice Question and answers set 12 - verbal reasoning Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Directions:
Each question given below consists of five or six statements followed by options consisting of three statements put together in a specific order. Choose the option which indicates a valid argument containing logically related statements that is, where the third statement is a conclusion drawn from the preceding two statements.
Q-1) A: Apples are not sweets
B: Some apples are sweet
C. All sweets are tasty.
D. Some apples are not tasty.
E. No apple is tasty.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Option (c) – C E A
⇒Apples are not sweets is the correct conclusion.
Directions:
Each question given below consists of five or six statements followed by options consisting of three statements put together in a specific order. Choose the option which indicates a valid argument containing logically related statements that is, where the third statement is a conclusion drawn from the preceding two statements.
Q-2) A: No patriot is a criminal.
B: Ramdas is not a criminal
C: Ramdas is a patriot
D: Mohandas is not a patriot
E: Mohandas is a criminal
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Option (c) – A C B
⇒Ramdas is not a criminal.
Directions:
Each question given below consists of five or six statements followed by options consisting of three statements put together in a specific order. Choose the option which indicates a valid argument containing logically related statements that is, where the third statement is a conclusion drawn from the preceding two statements.
Q-3) A: All synopses are poets.
B: Some synopses are mentors
C: Some X are not mentors
D: All X are poets
E: All synopses are mentors
F: All synopses are X.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Option (b) – A C B
⇒Irrelevant
Option (c) – A E C
⇒Irrelevant
Option (a) – F E C
⇒Conclusion may or may not be true
⇒Option (d) – D F A
⇒All synopses are poets. Option (d) is the correct answer.
Directions:
Each question given below consists of five or six statements followed by options consisting of three statements put together in a specific order. Choose the option which indicates a valid argument containing logically related statements that is, where the third statement is a conclusion drawn from the preceding two statements.
Q-4) A: Lizards are birds.
B: Some birds are ants.
C: Lizards are ants.
D: Some lizards are ants.
E: Some lizards are not ants.
F: No lizard is ant.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Option (c) – A D B
⇒Some birds are ants.
Q-5) Statements:
All bulbs are wires.
No wire is cable.
Some cables are brushes.
All brushes are paints
Conclusion:
I. Some paints are cables.
II. Some wires are bulbs.
III. Some brushes are wires.
IV. Some cables are bulbs.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Q-6) Statements:
All notebooks are pens.
No pen is table.
Some tables are desks.
All desks are tanks.
Conclusion:
I. Some tanks are pens.
II. Some desks are notebooks.
III. Some tanks are tables.
IV. NO tank is pen
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Q-7) Statements:
All books are tents.
Some tents are lakes.
All lakes are ponds.:
Conclusion:
I. Some ponds are books.
II. Some ponds are tents.
III. Some lakes are books.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Q-8) Statements:
Some books are papers.
Some papers are desks.
Some desks are chairs.
Conclusion:
I. Some books are desks..
II. Some papers are chairs.
III. Some books are chairs.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Q-9) Statements:
No rooms is house. No house is building. Some buildings are huts.
Conclusion:
I. Some huts are rooms.
II. Some huts are houses.
III. Some huts are buildings.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Q-10) Statements:
Some Cats are Rats.
Some Rats are Ants.
Some Ants are Flies.
Conclusion:
I. Some Flies are Cats.
II. Some Flies are not Ants.
III. No Rat is Fly.
IV. No Cat is Fly.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)