Reasoning Quiz

Directions (Q. 1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H are eight friends sitting around a circle in one arrangement facing outwards,and in a straight line in another arrangement where they face north. One of the immediate neighbours of H in the straight line sits opposite H in the circle.E sits third to the right of B in the circle, while fourth to his left in the straight line.F and C are the immediate neighbours of B in both the arrangements, but C is not at the extreme ends of the line.The one who sits on the extreme left end sits second to the right of E in the circle.H is not on the immediate left of F in both the arrangements.G sits on the immediate left of H in the circle, but they are not immediate neighbours of each other in the straight line.D sits third to the right of F in the straight line.The one who sits on the immediate left of B in the straight line is sitting on the immediate right of B in the circle.

1. Who is sitting opposite to F in a cirle?

a. H

b. D

c. E

d. G

e. None of these

2.Which of the following pair is sitting at the extreme ends of a straight line?

a. H,D

b. D,A

c. G,D

d. G,C

e. None of these

3.Immediate neigbours of A in a circle are

a. B,E

b. E,C

c. E,B

d. E,F

e. None of these

4.Who is sitting forth  to the left of C in a circle?

a. A

b. B

c. C

d. D

e. E

5.Which of the following statement is true about A in a straight line arrangement?

a.A is sitting in the middle of line

b.C is sitting third to the left of A

c.None of the followingis true

d.G and F are immediate neighbours of A

e.C is sitting third to the right of A

Directions (6-10): In each of the questions below are given four statements (a), (b), (c) and (d) followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. 

6. Statements: 

a. All flowers are buses.

b. Some buses are cats.

c. All cats are tigers.

Conclusions:

I. Some tigers are buses.

II. Some tigers are flowers.

III. Some cats are flowers.

IV. Some buses are tigers.

a) None follows 

b) Only I and II follow

c) Only III and IV follow 

d) Only I and IV follow

e) Only II and III follow

7.Statements: 

a. No tree is fruit.

b. All fruits are stones.

c. All stones are rains.

Conclusions:

I. No stone is tree.

II. No rain is tree.

III. Some rains are fruits.

IV. Some rains are trees.

a) None follows

b) Only either II or IV and III follow

c) Only either II or III and I follow

d) All follow

e) None of these

8.Statements: 

a. All books are stars.

b. Some stars are windows.

c. All windows are hills.

Conclusions:

I. Some windows are books.

II. Some hills are stars.

III. Some hills are books.

IV. Some stars are books.

a) None follows 

b) Only I and III follow

c) All follow 

d) Only II and IV follow

e) None of these

9. Statements: 

a. No man is sky.

b. No sky is road.

c. Some men are roads.

Conclusions:

I. No road is man.

II. No road is sky.

III. Some skies are men.

IV. All roads are men.

a) None follows 

b) Only I follows

c) Only I and III follow 

d) Only II and III follow

e) None of these

10.Statements: 

a. Some candles are houses.

b. Some houses are trains.

c. Some trains are roads.

Conclusions:

I. Some roads are candles.

II. Some trains are candles.

III. Some roads are houses.

IV. Some candles are roads.

a) None follows 

b) All follow

c) Only I and II follow 

d) Only II and III follow

e) Only III and IV follow


Answers.

(1-5) circle clockwise from DGHCBFAE

Straigt line facing North- GEHAFBCD

1. d

2. c

3. d

4. e

5. e

6. d

7. b

8. d

9. e

10.a