Reasoning Quiz For LIC AAO | SO | Syndicate Manipal
Directions (Q.1 - 5): In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by four Conclusions 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 all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly knows facts.
1. Statements: All branches are roads.
Some roads are dogs.
All dogs are rains.
Conclusions: I. Some rains are definitely dogs.
II. Some rains being branches is a possibility
III. All rains are roads.
IV. All roads are branches.
a) I, II and III follow
b) I and II follow
c) II, III and IV follow
d) All follow
e) None follows
2. Statements: Some houses are trains.
All trains are fruits.
Some fruits are skies.
Conclusions: I. Atleast some skies are houses.
II. Some fruits are not houses.
III. Some trains are skies.
IV. All fruits being trains is a possibility.
a) Only IV follows
b) Only I follows
c) II and IV follow
d) II and III follow
e) None of these
3. Statements: All doors are buses.
All buses are leaves.
No leaf is a flower.
Conclusions: I. No flower is a door.
II. No flower is a bus.
III. Some leaves are definitely doors.
IV. Atleast some leaves are buses.
a) II, III and IV follow
b) I and II follow
c) II, III and IV follow
d) All follow
e) None follows
4. Statements: All tigers are rivers.
No river is a forest.
Some forests are goats.
Conclusions: I. Some tigers being goats is a possibility.
II. All rivers are goats.
III. Atleast some goats are tigers.
IV. All forests are tigers.
a) II and III follow
b) I follow
c) III and IV follow
d) II and IV follow
e) None follows
5. Statements: All pens are grasshoppers.
Some grasshoppers are clouds.
Some clouds are bottles.
Conclusions: I. Some bottles are grasshoppers
II. Atleast some clouds are pens.
III. No pen is cloud.
a) Only III follows
b) Either II or III follows
c) Only II follows
d) Either I and II follow
e) None of these
Directions (Q.6 - 10): Below in each question are given two Statements I and II. These statements may be either independent causes or may be effects of independent causes or a common cause. One of these statements may be the effect of the other statements. Read both the statements and decide which of the following answer choice correctly depicts the relationship between these two statements.
Give Answer
a) If Statement I is the cause and Statement II is its effect
b) If Statement II is the cause and statement I is its effect
c) If both the statements I and II are independent causes
d) If both the Statements I and II are effects of independent causes
e) If both the Statements I and II are effects of some common cause
6. I. Large number of primary schools in the villages in the district are closed down this year.
II. Severe drought situation gripped the state resulting into acute shortage of drinking water.
7. I. Government has imposed a strict ban on use of plastics all over the state.
II. All the small scale units producing plastics products are on the verge of closure.
8. I. Police had launched a crackdown on all the criminal activities in the locality last month.
II. There has been a significant decline in the cases of criminal activities in the locality.
9. I. Large number of devotes visited the shrine on Saturday.
II. Every Saturday special prayers are offered.
10. I. The Govt. has recently lifted ban on import of sugar for selling in the retail market.
II. The prices of sugar in the retail market have stabilized after a considerable gap.
Answers: B - A - D - B - B - D - A - A - B -A
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