Dear readers,
This quiz consists of actual questions from various
Banking entrance exams held during the last few years. Leave your answers/
responses in the comments section below and soon we’ll let you know the correct
answers!
Directions (Q. 1-5): Which of the phrases (1), (2),
(3) and (4) given below each sentence should replace the word/phrase printed in
bold in the sentence in order to make the sentence grammatically correct? If
the sentence is correct in its given form and no correction is required, mark (5)
as the answer.
1. A freezing
morning accompanied by a dense cover of fog set the toning for the
coming weekend.
(1) keeping tone
(2) started the toning
(3) kept the tone
(4) set the tone
(5) No correction required
2. The jail is in the news again
with the finding of a pistol and some bullets.
(1) to finding
(2) with find
(3) finding
(4) on found
(5) No correction required
3. The space-crunched city
throws up several stories of struggle that schools have had put up with
to win playgrounds for their students.
(1) have had to put up to
(2) had put up on
(3) have had to put up with
(4) had to put up to
(5) No correction required
4. Emotions rang high as
both families were taken to the police station last night.
(1) Emotions went higher
(2) Emotion became high
(3) Emotionally high
(4) Emotions ran high
(5) No
correction required
5. Work at all
the court complexes was paralysed as lawyers went on a day-long strike
as a mark of protest.
(1) for a one day strike
(2) for a strike
(3) on a day’s long strike
(4) on a day-long striking
(5) No correction required
Directions (Q. 6-10): Rearrange the following five sentences
(A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful
paragraph; then answer the questions given below.
(A) The policy makers in most of the developing economies
recognise this importance and have been implementing a host of programmes and
measures to achieve rural development objectives.
(B) While some of these countries have achieved impressive
results from those programmes and measures, others have failed to make a significant
dent in the problem of persistent rural underdevelopment.
(C) The socio-economic disparities between rural and
urban areas are widening and creating tremendous pressure on the social and
economic fabric of many such developing economies.
(D) These factors, among many others, tend to
highlight the importance of rural development.
(E) Although millions of rural people have escaped
poverty as a result of rural development in many Asian countries, a large majority
of rural people continue to suffer from persistent poverty.
6. Which of the
following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
(1) A
(2) B (3) C (4) D (5) E
7. Which of the
following should be the LAST (FIFTH) sentence after rearrangement?
(1) A
(2) B (3) C (4) D (5) E
8. Which of the
following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?
(1) C
(2) B (3) A (4) D (5) E
9. Which of the
following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
(1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D (5) E
10. Which of
the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
(1) D
(2) E (3)
C (4) B (5) A
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Answers
1(4)
2(5) 3(5) 4(4)
5(5) 6(4) 7(2)
8(3) 9(5) 10(3)