Reasoning Quiz

Directions (1-5): Study the given information carefully and answer the given questions:

Eight people -A , B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a straight line facing North not necessarily in the same order. F is sitting fifth to the right A.D is sitting fifth to the right of E. E is to the immediate right of A. H is third to the left of D. B is third to the right of G. G is an immediate neighbour of A.

1. What is E's position with respect to C?

(a) Second to the left

(b) Third to the right

(c) Fourth to the right

(d) Third to the left

(e) None of these

2. Who is sitting third to the right of the one who is sitting sixth from the right end of the above arrangement?

(a) D

(b) C

(c) E

(d) H

(e) None of these

3. Who amongst the following are sitting at the extreme ends of the line?

(a) G and D

(b) A and D

(c) G and F

(d) E and D

(e) A and B

4. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their seating position in the above arrangement and so form a group. Which one does not belong to the group?

(a) HD

(b) BE

(c) EC

(d) AH

(e) GB

5. If all eight persons are asked to sit in an alphabetical order from right to left, the positions of how many will remain unchanged as compared to their original seating position?

(a) Three

(b) more than three

(c) One

(d) Two

(e) None

Directions 6-10: In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

6. Statements : All cups are bottles, Some bottles are jugs, No jug is plate, Some plates are tables

Conclusions :

I. some tables are bottles

II. some plates are cups.

III. No table is bottle

IV. some jugs are cups.

(a) only I follows

(b) only II follows

(c) only III follows

(d) only IV follows

(e) only either I or III follows

7. Statements : All birds are horses, All horses are tigers, Some tigers are lions, Some lions are monkeys

Conclusions :

I. some tigers are horses.

II. some monkeys are birds.

III. some tigers are birds.

IV. some monkeys are birds.

(a) only I and III follow

(b) only I, II and III follow

(c) only II, III and IV follow

(d) all I, II, III and IV follow

(e) none of these

8. Statements : Some chairs are handles, All handles are pots, All pots are mats, Some mats are buses

Conclusions :

I. some buses are handles.

II. some mats are chairs.

III. No bus is handle.

IV. some mats are handles.

(a) only I, II and IV follow

(b) only II, III and IV follow

(c) only either I or III and II follow

(d) only either I or III and IV follow

(e) only either I or III and II and IV follow

9. Statements : Some sticks are lamps, Some flowers are lamps, Some lamps are dresses, All dresses are shirts

Conclusions :

I. some shirts are sticks.

II. someshrits are flowers.

III. some flowers are sticks.

IV. some dresses are sticks.

(a) none follows

(b) only I follows

(c) only II follows

(d) only III follows

(e) only IV follows

10. Statements : Some benches are walls, All walls are houses, Some houses are jungles, All jungles are roads

Conclusions :

I. some roads are benches.

II. some jungles are walls.

III. some houses are benches

III. some roads are houses.

(a) only I and II follow

(b) only I and III follow

(c) only III and IV follow

(d) only II, III and IV follow

(e) none of these

Answers

1 d

2 b

3 a

4 b

5 c

6. e

7. a

8. e

9. a

10.c