Based On Two Assumptions MCQs Section 6 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

DIRECTIONS:

In each question be low is given a statement followed by two assumptions numbered I and II. An assumption is something supposed or taken for granted. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions and decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement.

Give your answer as;

  1. if only assumption I is implicit.
  2. if only assumption II is implicit.
  3. if either I or II is implicit.
  4. if neither I nor II is implicit.
  5. if both I and II are implicit.

Question : 41

Statement:
“Railway wagons of Eastern Railway will carry your message.” - ad by Eastern Railway.
Assumptions:
I. Other railways are already in practice and earning profits.
II. The railway will get responses for the above ad.

a) if only assumption I is implicit.

b) if only assumption II is implicit.

c) if either I or II is implicit.

d) if neither I nor II is implicit.

e) if both I and II are implicit.

Answer: (b)

Eastern Railway may be initiator of this practice.

Hence I is not implicit. Assuming I, the Eastern Railways officials have advertised so.

Question : 42

Statement:
Ideas have always been more potent than the actual protagonists who act them out.
Assumptions:
I. Famous protagonists can make any idea famous despite their less importance.
II. Both ideas and protagonists have the same importance in any play.

a) if only assumption I is implicit.

b) if only assumption II is implicit.

c) if either I or II is implicit.

d) if neither I nor II is implicit.

e) if both I and II are implicit.

Answer: (d)

Both assumptions contradict the statements.

Question : 43

Statement:
India is suffering because citizens have given and taken votes based on caste/religion and not principles.
Assumptions:
I. The days of value-based voting are numbered in India.
II. The voting based on principles has the potential to nullify the problems created by the politics of caste and religion.

a) if only assumption I is implicit.

b) if only assumption II is implicit.

c) if either I or II is implicit.

d) if neither I nor II is implicit.

e) if both I and II are implicit.

Answer: (d)

I is not implicit because it implies that valuebased voting still prevails, though it does not have too long a future. But the statement clearly suggests that value-based voting is absent. What about Assumption II, which talks of the potential of value-based voting? Well, the only potential the speaker has in mind is that it’s a step in the positive direction. But can it undo what has been done? We don’t know.

Question : 44

Statement:
“Reservation policy for SC/ST should be extended for another ten years.”
— Labour Minister.
Assumptions:
I. Reservation is still necessary for them to uplift them socially and economically.
II. SCs/STs are not so capable so they are given reservation.

a) if only assumption I is implicit.

b) if only assumption II is implicit.

c) if either I or II is implicit.

d) if neither I nor II is implicit.

e) if both I and II are implicit.

Answer: (d)

The assumptions are not implicit because it is possible that the minister has neither of these convictions but is acting under sheer political compulsion.

Question : 45

Statement:
“With 17” PC Monitor of company X, get Laxmark Z13 colour Inkjet Printer absolutely free with one-year guarantee period.”
— an advertisement
Assumptions:
I. More people will now be attracted towards 17” PC Monitor of company X due to this scheme.
II. Offer of providing free goods to the customers with some other goods of a company is likely to increase the sale of the company.

a) if only assumption I is implicit.

b) if only assumption II is implicit.

c) if either I or II is implicit.

d) if neither I nor II is implicit.

e) if both I and II are implicit.

Answer: (e)

People looks for goods which are cheap as well as durable.

Hence I is implicit. Since the scheme has been initiated with the aim of attracting more customers and further strengthening the company, II is also implicit.

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