Syllogism section 12 MCQ Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

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.

Question : 11

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 D C

b) E A C

c) C E A

d) C B D

Answer: (c)

Option (c) – C E A

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⇒Apples are not sweets is the correct conclusion.

Question : 12

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) A B E

b) A B C

c) A C B

d) A D E

Answer: (c)

Option (c) – A C B

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⇒Ramdas is not a criminal.

Question : 13

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) F E C

b) A B C

c) A E C

d) D F A

Answer: (d)

Option (b) – A C B

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⇒Irrelevant

Option (c) – A E C

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⇒Irrelevant

Option (a) – F E C

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⇒Conclusion may or may not be true

⇒Option (d) – D F A

⇒All synopses are poets. Option (d) is the correct answer.

Question : 14

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 A C

b) A C E

c) A D B

d) E D C

Answer: (c)

Option (c) – A D B

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⇒Some birds are ants.

Directions:

In each question below are given two statements followed by two conclusions numbers I & II. You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

Question : 15

Statements:
All pens are chalks.
All chalks are chairs.


Conclusion:
I. Some pens are chairs.
II. Some chalks are pens.

a) If either conclusion I or II follows

b) If only conclusion I follows

c) If only conclusion II follows

d) If neither conclusion I nor II follows

e) If both conclusions I and II follow

Answer: (c)

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⇒Only conclusion II follows.

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