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QUANTITATIVE ABILITY

1. There is a two-digit number, which is equal to the sum of the squares of its digits. What is the sum of the

digits of that number?

(1) 7 (2) 5 (3) 6

(4) 8 (5) Such a number is not possible

2. The content development team was working at a uniform rate to develop 2500 questions in ten weeks.

But after working for six weeks, the content development team was informed by the management that

the remaining questions had to be developed in one week. By what percentage does the team need to

increase its rate of development of questions so that it can complete developing the remaining questions

in one week?

(1) 100% (2) 250% (3) 300% (4) 400% (5) 500%

3. A rectangle with perimeter 88 m is partitioned into 5 congruent rectangles, as shown in the diagram

given below. The perimeter of each of the congruent rectangles is

(1) 20 m (2) 32 m (3) 48 m (4) 96 m (5) 40 m

4. In a box containing 15 apples, exactly 6 apples are rotten. Each day one apple is taken out from the

box. What is the probability that after four days there are exactly 8 apples in the box that are not rotten?

(1)12

91(2)

1

7(3)

2

13(4)

2

7(5) None of these

5. A function F(n) is defined as( )( )

=−

1F(n – 1)

2 F nfor all natural numbers ‘n’. If F(1) = 2, then what is

the value of [F(1)] + [F(2)] +…………+ [F(50)]?

(Here, [x] is equal to the greatest integer less than or equal to ‘x’)

(1) 51 (2) 55 (3) 54 (4) 52 (5) None of these

6. What is the product of all factors of the number N = 64 x 102, which are divisible by 5?

(1) 2210 × 3102 × 5140 (2) 2210 × 3140 × 5105 (3) 2140 × 3210 × 5102

(4) 2140 × 3102 × 5210 (5) 2102 × 3210 × 5140

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7. A trapezium DEFG is circumscribed about a circle that has centre at C. If DM = 1 cm, GN = 4 cm and

the measure of DEF EFG 90 ,∠ =∠ = ° then find the radius of the circle.

G N F

EMD

P

C

(1) 2 cm (2) 2.5 cm (3) 2.25 cm (4) 3 cm (5) 4 cm

8. The list price of an article was increased by 10%. It was then decreased by 10%. If the final price

became Rs. 20, then find the initial list price (in Rs.)

(1)

× 2

2 2

10 100

100 – 20 (2)

×2 2

2 2

20 10

100 – 10 (3)

× 2

2 2

20 100

100 – 10 (4)

× 2

2 2

10 20

100 – 20 (5)

−

×

2 2

2

100 10

20 100

9. Given that f(x) = x3 – x2 (3 + a) + x( 2 + 3a) – 2a, where ‘a’ is an odd prime number. What is the range

of values of ‘x’ that satisfy f(x) > 0?

(1) x < 1 or 2 < x < a (2) x < 2 or x > a (3) 1 < x < 2 or x > a

(4) x < 1 or x > a (5) Cannot be determined

10. Richa has three types of boxes viz. large, medium and small. She plays a game in which she placed 9

large boxes on the table. She puts 5 medium boxes each, in a few of the large boxes then she puts 5

small boxes each, in few of the medium boxes. If the number of boxes that have been left empty in the

game is 41, then how many boxes were used in the game by Richa?(1) 72 (2) 49 (3) 63 (4) 56 (5) 102

11. Three men are gambling in Casino Royal. They start with sums of money in the ratio 7 : 6 : 5 and finish

with sums of money in the ratio 6 : 5 : 4, in the same order as before. One of them won $ 12. How many

dollars did he start with ? [The three men gambled amongst each other only]

(1) $1080 (2) $420 (3) $210 (4) $108 (5) None of these

12. The minimum value of the expression − − −

1x 5

10 2xis attained at x = a. If ‘x’ is always greater than

5, then what is the value of ‘a’?

(1) 6 (2) +5 2 (3) +1

53

(4) +1

55

(5) None of these

13. The cost of building a wall is Rs. 1347. What would be the approximate cost of building the wall if the

wages of workers per day increases by 12.5% and the working hours per day increases by a fraction of

1

20?

(1) Rs. 1243 (2) Rs. 1592 (3) Rs. 1443 (4) Rs. 1321 (5) Rs. 1692

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14. Sanjay has exactly six sealed boxes containing 15, 31, 19, 20, 16 and 18 coins. Out of the six boxes

with Sanjay, there are exactly five boxes that contained silver coins whereas one box contained gold

coins. He distributed all the six boxes among his three sons in such a manner that his eldest son got the

only box with gold coins and the other boxes were distributed in such a manner so that other two

brothers received the silver coins in the ratio of 2:1. How many gold coins were there in one of the

boxes with Sanjay? (Assume no coins were taken out of the boxes)

(1) 20 (2) 19 (3) 16 (4) 31 (5) Cannot be determined

15. Three positive real numbers ‘x’, ‘y’ and ‘z’ exist such that they are in an arithmetic progression and the

product of x, y and z is 25. If the common difference of the arithmetic progression is 2 5, then find the

value of (x + y + z).

(1) +10 2 5 (2) 15 (3) 8 4 5+ (4) 20 (5) 10

16. Tania prepares for the CAT examination by practicing for 100 days. On any of these 100 days she does

not solve more than 20 questions. If on any day, she solves more than 12 questions, then she solves at

most 6 questions each on the next two days. What is the maximum possible number of questions that

she can solve over the period of 100 days?

(1) 1200 (2) 1208 (3) 1220 (4) 960 (5) 1240

17. A square and a regular hexagon have the same area. Find the ratio of the perimeter of the square to the

perimeter of the hexagon.

(1) 3 : 2 (2) 1 : 2 (3) 44 3 : 4 (4) 4 44 : 3 (5) None of these

18. If x + y = 1, then what is the value of (x3 + y3 + 3xy)?

(1) 1 (2) 3 (3) 9 (4) 0 (5) –1

19. What is the remainder when n! + (n! + 1) + (n! – 2) + (n! + 3) ..... + (n! – 2006) is divided by 1003 forn = 1003?

(1) 1 (2) 0 (3) 2006 (4) 2005 (5) None of these

20. From a point P, the tangents PQ and PT are drawn to a circle with centre O and radius 2 units. From the

centre O, OA and OB are drawn parallel to PQ and PT respectively. The length of the chord TQ is

2 units. Find the measure of the ∠AOB.

B A

T Q

O

P

(1) 30° (2) 90° (3) 60° (4) 120° (5) 45°

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DATA INTERPRETATION

DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for Questions 21 to 23:for Questions 21 to 23:for Questions 21 to 23:for Questions 21 to 23:for Questions 21 to 23: Each question is followed by two statements, A and B. Answer each

question using the following instructions:

Mark (1) if the question can be answered by using the statement A alone but not by using the statement B

alone.

Mark (2) if the question can be answered by using the statement B alone but not by using the statement A

alone.

Mark (3) if the question can be answered by using either of the statements alone.

Mark (4) if the question can be answered by using both the statements together but not by either of the

statements alone.

Mark (5) if the question cannot be answered on the basis of the two statements.

21. A milkman has 25 small cans, all of which are completely filled with milk. He also has one large can

which is empty. Can he transfer all the milk contained in 15 of these small cans to the large can?A:A:A:A:A: The large can has a capacity of 500 liters.

B:B:B:B:B: The average capacity of any 20 of the small cans is 25 liters.

22. A wire of length ‘l’ units is cut into three pieces having lengths ‘a’ units, ‘b’ units and ‘c’ units.

If a > b > c and each of a, b and c is an integer, then is ‘b’ an odd number?

A:A:A:A:A: The product of ‘a’ and ‘b’ is 60 square units.

B:B:B:B:B: The product of ‘b’ and ‘c’ is 12 square units.

23. Sales value of a company ‘X’ is Rs. 100 lacs and the margin is 20% in the year 2000. What is the total

cost to the company in the year 2001?

A:A:A:A:A: Sales value in the year 2002 is 80% of the sales value in the year 2001 and 125% of the sales value

in the year 2003. Profit percentage is constant from the year 2000 to the year 2003.

B:B:B:B:B: Sales value in the year 2003 is 140% of the sales value in the year 2000.

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DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for Questions 24 to 27:for Questions 24 to 27:for Questions 24 to 27:for Questions 24 to 27:for Questions 24 to 27: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

Ten students of an engineering college either liked (LIK) or did not like (DNL) a movie each one of them

watched in December 2008. The movies watched by these ten students in December 2008 are P, Q, R, S, T, U,

V and W.

The given table provides details about the number of movies not liked by each of these ten students.

The following bar chart provides details about the number of students (out of the 10 given students) who liked

the movies P, Q, R, S, T, U and V.

Shefali Shreyas Nitin Richa Devendra

6 3 4 5 7

Pankaj Abhishek Ashraf Priyanka Amit

0 2 1 4 5

109

1

4

6

3

8

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

P Q R S T U V

Movies

N

u m b e r o f S t u d e n t s

24. What is the total number of students who did not like the movie W?

(1) Eight (2) Seven (3) Two (4) Three (5) Cannot be determined

25. Which of the following movies is not liked by Shreyas?

(1) V (2) R (3) S (4) T (5) Cannot be determined

26. Which of the following movies is liked by Abhishek?(1) R (2) U (3) W

(4) Both (1) and (2) (5) Both (1) and (3)

27. Out of the given eight movies, how many movies are not liked by Richa but are liked by Nitin?

(1) Four (2) Three (3) Two (4) One (5) Cannot be determined

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The following table provides information about the marks obtained by 16 students in three different sections

namely QA, LRDI and VA in MOCK Test 10. The total marks obtained by the students in MOCK Test 10 is

the sum of the marks obtained by the student in the mentioned three sections. It also provides information

about the center at which the student is enrolled. The students belong to either one of the five centers namely

I, II and III. Each student is enrolled at only one center.

Each student is given only one rank from 1 to 16 based on the marks obtained by him/her in the MOCK Test

10. This rank is called ‘overall rank ’. A student A (assume) is given a numerically lesser rank than the other

student B (assume) if the total marks obtained by A is greater then the total marks obtained by B. If the total

marks obtained by A is same as that by B, then the student having obtained more marks in VA section is given

a numerically lesser rank. If marks obtained by two students in VA section are also same, then the student

having obtained more marks in LRDI section is given a numerically lesser rank.

NAME Gender Center QA LRDI VA NAME Gender Center QA LRDI VA

Dennis M I 9 10 21 Sagarika F I 7 11 23

Preeti F II 8 12 16 Manish M II 19 10 15

Anurag M III 6 9 23 Nitya F III 13 6 14Pronab M I 13 8 29 Aditi F III 11 8 19

Abishek M III 14 7 31 Avni F II 21 21 4

Shefali F II 11 8 17 Anshul M I 5 20 14

Reema F I 5 16 6 Sachin M II 22 6 6

Rahul M II 21 13 19 Nidhi F III 7 9 17

28. Find the rank of Nidhi.

(1) 12 (2) 13 (3) 14 (4) 15 (5) 16

29. How many male students got more marks in VA than the marks obtained by Nitya in VA but less marks

in QA than the marks obtained by Avni in QA?(1) 7 (2) 6 (3) 5 (4) 4 (5) 3

30. Find the number of female students who obtained more total marks than at most four female students

and more total marks than at least one male student.

(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4 (5) 5

31. If the criterion for ranking the students is followed by each center to rank the students enrolled there,

then find the difference between the ‘overall rank ’ and the ‘center rank ’ of Anshul. (Overall rank is the

rank when all the 16 students are taken into consideration and ‘center rank ’ is the rank when only the

students of that particular center is taken into consideration.)

(1) 6 (2) 2 (3) 5 (4) 3 (5) 4

32. From which center, the maximum possible number of students obtained a total of at least 40 marks and

at most a total of 54 marks?

(1) Both I and II (2) III (3) II

(4) Both I and III (5) I

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Five friends, viz. Ashok, Amit, Ajay, Akansh and Abhishek are living in five different cities named

Kunnamangalam, Joka, Vastrapur, Banerghatta and Prabandhnagar, not necessarily in that order. Their salaries

are 700000, 800000, 900000, 1100000, 1300000 (INR per annum), in no particular order. Further, the following

information is given about them:

I. Akansh, who does not live in Banerghatta, earns a salary that is a prime number multiple of 100000.II. Amit made a call to one of his four mentioned friends who lives in Prabandhnagar and earning a perfect

square multiple of 100000 INR in salary.

III. Ajay’s salary is 100000 INR more than the average salary of Akansh and Ashok

IV. Amit lives in the city, which has the shortest name amongst the above cities.s.s.s.s.

33. If Akansh lives in Vastrapur, then what is the average salary of the persons living in Banerghatta and

Kunnamangalam?

(1) Rs.9 lakh (2) Rs.10 lakh (3) Rs.12 lakh (4) Rs.10.5 lakh (5) Data Insufficient

34. Who stays in Prabandhnagar?

(1) Ashok (2) Amit (3) Abhishek (4) Ajay (5) Akansh

35. If Amit and Ajay live in cities with names starting with consecutive alphabets, then who lives in Vastrapur?

(1) Ashok (2) Amit (3) Abhishek (4) Ajay (5) Akansh

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ENGLISH USAGEENGLISH USAGEENGLISH USAGEENGLISH USAGEENGLISH USAGE

DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for Questions 36 to 38:for Questions 36 to 38:for Questions 36 to 38:for Questions 36 to 38:for Questions 36 to 38: Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence

between sentences 1 and 6.

36. 1. Meeting people after nine to ten years, almost to the day, is a very weird experience.

A. It genuinely felt awkward to meet people, some married and some with children, others married but

who forgot to send out 200 cards to school friends, others, divorced.

B. I did find out that the marriage was unhappy for all the wrong reasons, none because of the obnoxious

twit that he is.

C. I actually felt sorry for one of those guys, because, and if you knew equation with him in the school

bus where we almost killed each other a few times, I would not have wished a divorce on him -

though, I would not have wished any woman on him either.

D. I am in close touch with a couple of school friends - Doc, for example is an ass I can still call my

best friend after twenty years - but my god, did he (or rather his overheating BMW) push my

patience on Saturday night.

6. Everybody was fatter/ balder and in some cases both.

(1) DCBA (2) CBDA (3) DACB (4) BCDA (5) ABCD

37. 1. Even though dance starts a bit later than school does during the week, Saturday morning is still

pretty chaotic around here.

A. More so if John is leaving for an auction that day, because it means I have to truck Kristen and Alex

with me and get them ready too.

B. This is one of those mornings where John was rushing to leave too.

C. There are buns to be done, bodysuits to find, tights to mend (because they’re always ripped

somewhere) and a good breakfast to be had.

D. His work van has been giving him some problems, so he was nervous about travelling with it (not

to mention what it’s costing us to fix it).

6 . He couldn’t find his cell and even though he had woken up in a general good mood, I could see it

going downhill from there.

(1) ACBD (2) ABCD (3) ADCB (4) BCDA (5) BDCA

38. 1. Climate change will trigger a chain of events that is likely to prompt an increase in HIV rates

worldwide, an expert has warned.

A. Daniel Tarantola of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) said the disadvantage in developing

countries must be addressed if the world is to prevent a dramatic escalation of the HIV epidemic as

well as other health problems.

B. "It was clear soon after the emergence of the HIV epidemic that discrimination, gender inequality

and lack of access to essential services have made some populations more vulnerable than others,"Tarantola said on Wednesday.

C. "Today, additional threats are lurking on the horizon as the global economic situation deteriorates,

food scarcity worsens and climate change begins to affect those who were already dependent on

survival economies," Tarantola said.

D. David Cooper, also of UNSW, said: “Science has achieved great strides towards shaping a more

effective response to HIV.

6. Yet research has not succeeded in producing the hoped-for 'magic bullets' of either a cure or a

vaccine.”

(1) BACD (2) DCBA (3) CDBA (4) ABCD (5) ADCB

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DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for Questions 39 to 42:for Questions 39 to 42:for Questions 39 to 42:for Questions 39 to 42:for Questions 39 to 42: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences.

39. A. It is undisputable that in order to fulfill its many functions, water should be clean and biologically

valuable.

B. The costs connected with the provision of biologically valuable water in food production with the

maintenance of sufficiently clean water, therefore, are primarily production costs.

C. Purely ‘environmental’ costs seem to be in this respect only costs connected with the safeguarding

of cultural, recreational and sports functions.

D. This is fulfilled by water courses and reservoirs both in nature and human settlements.

(1) D and A (2) C and B (3) C and D (4) A and B (5) A and C

40. A. The pollution problem of the atmosphere resemble those of the water only partly.

B. So far, the supply of air has not been deficient as was the case with water, and the dimensions of

the air-shed are so vast that a number of people still hold the opinion that air need not be economized.

C. However, scientific forecasts have shown that the time may be already approaching when clear

and biologically valued air will become Problem No. 1.

D. People are particularly sensitive about any reducing in the quality of the atmosphere, the increasedcontents of dust and gaseous exhalations and particularly about the presence of odors.

(1) B, C and A (2) A, D and C (3) B, D and A (4) C, D and B (5) B and C

41. A. But I don’t care!

B. On going fast, that is.

C. I care about feeling in control and enjoying the act of driving.

D If I owned a Tribeca I’d tape the “off ” button down.

(1) A only (2) A and B (3) C only (4) B only (5) A and D

42. A. The United States aren’t de-industrializing.

B. Rather, many of its historic industries is getting smaller, and the jobs they offer are declining in

quality.

C. The scary thing is that this re-proletarianization of industrial work is moving up the value chain.

D. Where's it going next?

(1) A, B and C (2) B and C (3) B and D (4) C and D (5) A, B and D

DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for Questions 43 to 47:for Questions 43 to 47:for Questions 43 to 47:for Questions 43 to 47:for Questions 43 to 47: Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last

sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the

most appropriate way.

43. Warschawski describes the atrocities of the occupation—from the sack of Ramallah to the

massacre in Jenin, the razing of houses and refugee camps, shooting at ambulances and hospitals, the

use of Palestinian civilians as human shields—showing how each of these pushes back the boundaries

of what was previously thinkable. Warschawski has the keen eye of an Israeli insider.________________.

(1) He keenly observes the destructive movements of Palestinians and develops a powerful

critique of their terrorist activities with a persuasive power drawn from his Jewish origins.

(2) He develops a powerful critique of Israeli policies with a persuasive power drawn from his own

Jewish origins.

(3) Palestinian occupation of Israel is the subject that worries him the most, and he writes a powerful

critique with a comprehensive account of massacre and plunder.

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(4) He blindly supports the Palestinian cause and even expects the U.S. to stand by an independent

state for them.

(5) Being an Israeli himself, he blindly supports the Israeli cause and even expects the U.S. to stand by

an independent state for them.

44. Library shelves groan under an insupportable mass of volumes about the dreadful flea-borne pestilence

that spread across Europe in the middle of the 14th century — the number of books being equaled only

by the scores that deal with the very similar plague that killed thousands in London three centuries later.

The Black Death, the Awful Malady, the Vast Pestilence, the Great Mortality, the plague has been

called by many names, and is in many senses a perfect topic for the lazy historian — the subject matter

is adequately horrifying, the known descriptions are vividly readable, the social implications are

sufficiently varied to allow for the kind of wild speculations that make for a book publicist’s dream.

_____________________________________________

(1) But the accounts that have resulted in the past all seem to tell in essence much the same story, and

in the very same way.

(2) Rumours are heard of distant illness, neighbours appear with lurid tales, and then suddenly local

people become afflicted.(3) That is the Black Death as sound bite, and rare is the account that manages to take it very much

further.

(4) Huge swellings appear in groins and armpits, leaving thousands to be limed and buried, while

stunned communities try desperately to recover sanity and order.

(5) No wonder that centuries after it happened, the Black Death is still a bestseller.

45. In a way, to be indifferent to that suffering is what makes the human being inhuman. Indifference, after

all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Anger can at times be creative. One writes a great poem,

a great symphony, one does something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the

injustice that one witnesses. But indifference is never creative. Even hatred at times may elicit a response.

You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a

response. Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end. ____________________________________

(1) The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees — not to respond to

their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from

human memory.

(2) And in denying their humanity we betray our own. Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a

punishment.

(3) And this is one of the most important lessons of this outgoing century’s wide-ranging experiments

in good and evil.

(4) We are on the threshold of a new century, a new millennium. What will the legacy of this vanishing

century be?

(5) And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor — neverhis victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

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46. When Paru Jaykrishna was elected president of the Gujarat Chambers of Commerce earlier this year, it

was more than a personal achievement for this 64-year-old lady. This was the first time a woman had

entered a male bastion in a state that has spawned hundreds of entrepreneurs and innovators. But

importantly it was symbolic of the coming of age of Indian women in enterprise. “I knew that where I

was venturing has been a male bastion. But that didn ’t deter me. Women in India are today equal

partners in business, aren’t we?” she says. __________________________________________

(1) Even as the corporate world celebrates the rise of women in its ranks, thousands of women

entrepreneurs are working hard to prove that they are second to none.

(2) When it comes to success, women are as good as men, if not better.

(3) It isn’t an easy journey, as any entrepreneur will tell you.

(4) But for these women, it has also been about breaking tradition and overcoming long-held socio-

cultural mindsets.

(5) They feel life is not worth it if you have not unleashed the entrepreneur within you.

47. Sports psychologists have found that losing does indeed make fans unhappy, just as winning brings

joy. While little work has been done to assess the durability of these emotions, they can be quite

powerful - one survey, for example, found that West Germans professed themselves more pleased with

the national economy and their own jobs after their national soccer team won a game at the 1982 WorldCup.

But what is particularly striking is the almost comical extent to which fans appropriate the successes

and failures of their team.____________________________________

(1) Along with their mothers they see their accomplishments rise and fall with the fortunes of the team

(2) Accomplishments of their team are seen as fulfillment of personal goals of the stage moms.

(3) Like a stadium full of stage moms, they see the accomplishments of their team as reflections of

themselves

(4) Winning teams are always accompanied by their moms to help accomplish the desired goals.

(5) The stadium reverberates with the tempo of the triumphant team celebrating the accomplishment of

their dreams.DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS forforforforfor QQQQQuestions 48 to 57:uestions 48 to 57:uestions 48 to 57:uestions 48 to 57:uestions 48 to 57: The two passages given below are followed by a set of questions.

Choose the best answer to each question.

PASSAGE - IPASSAGE - IPASSAGE - IPASSAGE - IPASSAGE - I

The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every

new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn. In its tenacious hold on tradition, the Old has never

hesitated to make use of the foulest and cruelest means to avoid the advent of the New, in whatever form or

period the latter may have asserted itself. We need not retrace our steps into the distant past to realize the

enormity of opposition, difficulties, and hardships placed in the path of every progressive idea. The rack, the

thumbscrew, and the knout are still with us; so are the convict’s garb and the social wrath, all conspiringagainst the spirit that is serenely marching on. Anarchism could not hope to escape the fate of all other ideas

of innovation. Indeed, as the most revolutionary and uncompromising innovator, Anarchism must meet with

the combined ignorance and venom of the world it aims to reconstruct.

The strange phenomenon of the opposition to Anarchism is that it brings to light the relation between so-

called intelligence and ignorance. And yet this is not so very strange when we consider the relativity of all

things. The ignorant mass has in its favor that it makes no pretense of knowledge or tolerance. Acting, as it

always does, by mere impulse, its reasons are like those of a child. “Why?” “Because.” Yet the opposition of

the uneducated to Anarchism deserves the same consideration as that of the intelligent man.

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What, then, are the objections? First, Anarchism is impractical, though a beautiful ideal. Second, Anarchism

stands for violence and destruction, hence it must be repudiated as vile and dangerous. Both the intelligent

man and the ignorant mass judge not from a thorough knowledge of the subject, but either from hearsay or

false interpretation.

A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out

under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme thatcould accept these conditions is wrong and foolish. The true criterion of the practical, therefore, is not

whether the latter can keep intact the wrong or foolish; rather is it whether the scheme has vitality enough to

leave the stagnant waters of the old, and build, as well as sustain, new life. In the light of this conception,

Anarchism is indeed practical. More than any other idea, it is helping to do away with the wrong and foolish;

more than any other idea, it is building and sustaining new life.

The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about

Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to be employed against this philosophy and its exponents. Therefore

Anarchism represents to the unthinking what the proverbial bad man does to the child,—a black monster bent

on swallowing everything; in short, destruction and violence.

Destruction and violence! How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is

ignorance; that its power of destruction is the very thing Anarchism is combating? Nor is he aware that

Anarchism, whose roots, as it were, are part of nature’s forces, destroys, not healthful tissue, but parasitic

growths that feed on the life’s essence of society. It is merely clearing the soil from weeds and sagebrush, that

it may eventually bear healthy fruit. Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to

think. The widespread mental indolence, so prevalent in society, proves this to be only too true. Rather than

to go to the bottom of any given idea, to examine into its origin and meaning, most people will either condemn

it altogether, or rely on some superficial or prejudicial definition of non-essentials.

48. The passage is primarily concerned with

(1) identifying the contribution of the old ideologies to the present world

(2) exposing the dubious character of the intelligent men(3) the novelty value of the idea of anarchism and its understanding

(4) revealing the untimely death of progressive ideas

(5) to express support to the basic idea of violence and destruction

49. Which of the following best describes the function of the fourth paragraph?

(1) To identify the flaws in the pragmatic and anarchistic approach

(2) To describe the complimentary relationship between the existing condition and anarchism

(3) To revert to the objections of the disbelievers of anarchism by magnifying its true pragmatic approach

(4) To refute Oscar Wilde’s beliefs about the existing world and the practical scheme

(5) To identify the misgivings of the people toward Oscar Wilde’s theory

50. By the author’s statements, it can be inferred that she would be most likely to agree with which one of

the following?

(1) The ignorant man’s ignorance is not only employed by the lack of his own understanding but also

by the efforts of those who want them to be oblivious.

(2) The acceptance of new ideas depends on that community of people which propagates those ideas

(3) Anarchism dichotomizes the intelligent from the ignorant and destroys those who have been thriving

in society as parasites.

(4) The only pragmatic way is the present one which presents the correct order of things as proposed by

our ancestors.

(5) That intelligence often gives way to Anarchism and is just a tool for the erudite to discuss in their

living rooms.

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51. The author is outraged by the judgement of anarchism from both the ignorant and intelligent men

because

(1) their judgement is consistent with the exponents of anarchism

(2) their judgement is based on religion and social ethics

(3) their judgement is in opposition with the views of proponents of anarchism

(4) their judgement is based on unsubstantiated information and misconceptions

(5) their judgement is based on selfish motives

52. The tone of the author can be described as:

(1) adulatory (2) sympathetic (3) opinionated (4) equivocal (5) reverential

PASSAGE - IIPASSAGE - IIPASSAGE - IIPASSAGE - IIPASSAGE - II

Today’s growth product is tomorrow’s buggy whip – and often management does not seem to realize it. A

company must learn to think of itself not as producing goods and services but as buying, creating and satisfying

customers. This approach should permeate every nook and cranny of the organization; if it doesn’t, no amount

of efficiency in operations can compensate for the lack. Marketing myopia is not easy to overcome, but unless

it is, an organization cannot achieve greatness. This is the lesson learned by many companies in many industries,including the most glamorous “growth” industries.

Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm

are very much in the shadow of decline. Others which are thought of as seasoned growth industries have

actually stopped growing. In every case the reason growth is threatened, slowed, or stopped is not because the

market is saturated. It is because there has been a failure of management.

The failure is at the top. The executives responsible for it, in the last analysis, are those who deal with broad

aims and policies.

The railroads did not stop growing because the need for passenger and freight transportation declined. Thatgrew. The railroads are in trouble today not because the need was filled by others (cars, trucks, airplanes, even

telephones), but because it was not filled by the railroads themselves. They let others take customers away

from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business rather than in the transportation

business. The reason they defined their industry wrong was because they were railroad-oriented instead of

transportation-oriented, they were product-oriented instead of customer-oriented.

Generally, all the established film companies went through drastic reorganizations. Some simply disappeared.

All of them got into trouble not because of TV’s inroads but because of their own myopia. As with the

railroads, Hollywood defined its business incorrectly. It thought it was in the movie business when it was

actually in the entertainment business. “Movies” implied a specific, limited product. This produced a fatuous

contentment which from the beginning led producers to view TV as a threat. Hollywood scorned and rejectedTV when it should have welcomed it as an opportunity – an opportunity to expand the entertainment business.

Today TV is a bigger business than the old narrowly defined movie business ever was. Had Hollywood been

customer-oriented (providing entertainment), rather than product-oriented (making movies), would it have

gone through the fiscal purgatory that it did/ I doubt it. What ultimately saved Hollywood and accounted for

its recent resurgence was the wave of new young writers, producer, and directors whose previous successes in

television had decimated the old movie companies and toppled the big movie moguls.

There are other less obvious examples of industries that have been and are now endangering their futures by

improperly defining their purposes. I shall discuss some in detail later and analyze the kind of policies that

lead to trouble. Right now it may help to show what a thoroughly customer oriented management can do to

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keep a growth industry growing, even after the obvious opportunities have been exhausted; and here there are

two examples that have been around for a long time. They are nylon and glass – specifically, E.I. Du Pont de

Nemours & Company and Corning Glass Works:

Both companies have great technical competence. Their product orientation is unquestioned. But this alone

does not explain their success. After all, who was more pridefully product-oriented and product-conscious

than the erstwhile New England textile companies that have been so thoroughly massacred. The Du Ponts and

the Cornings have succeeded not primarily because of their product or research orientation but because they

have been thoroughly customer-oriented also. It is constant watchfulness for opportunities to apply their

technical know-how to the creation of customer-satisfying uses which accounts for their prodigious output of

successful new products. Without a very sophisticated eye on the customer, most of their new products might

have been wrong, their sales methods useless.

53. In the statement “This is the lesson learned by many companies in many industries, including the most

glamorous “growth” industries.” What ‘lesson’ does the author refer to?

(1) That today’s new economies are tomorrow’s old economies.

(2) That a company must have great technical competence.

(3) That marketing myopia is not easy to overcome.(4) That companies should simply be product oriented backed up by great technological and financial

abilities.

(5) That companies in order to achieve greatness must learn how to satisfy their customers.

54. Study the following statement carefully and draw another example from the passage that is semantically

and structurally parallel to it.

“The reason they defined their industry wrong was because they were railroad –oriented instead of

transportation –oriented”

(1) Hollywood scorned and rejected TV when it should have welcomed it as an opportunity- an

opportunity to expand the entertainment business.

(2) After all, who was more pridefully product-oriented and product-conscious than the erstwhile NewEngland textile companies that have been so thoroughly massacred?

(3) The Du Ponts and the Cornings have succeeded not primarily because of their product or research

orientation but because they have been thoroughly customer-oriented also.

(4) As with the railroads, Hollywood defined its business incorrectly. It thought it was in the movie

business when it was actually in entertainment business.

(5) Had Hollywood been customer-oriented, rather than product-oriented, would it have gone through

the financial purgatory that it did?

55. All of the following inferences drawn from the passage can serve as statements/ arguments to define

and strengthen the case of a customer-oriented approach, except for-?

(1) A customer-oriented approach exacts a focused concern about the customers’ expectations.(2) A prior research and analysis of customers’ profile and behavior must be done before development

of new products and sales methods.

(3) Lack of customer orientation leads to marketing myopia which no amount of efficiency in operations

can ever compensate.

(4) A company that only thinks of itself as buying, creating, and satisfying customers and not as

producing goods and services is eventually going to receive the fate of the erstwhile New England

textile company.

(5) Customer orientation demands looking at the business processes primarily from the perspective of

the end-user and not that of the producer alone.

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56. The rhetoric “Today’s growth product is tomorrow’s buggy whip” is substantiated and exemplified by

the mention of which of the glamorous “growth” industries”?

(1) TV companies, E.I.Du pont de Nemours & Company and Corning glass Works

(2) The railroad companies, Hollywood and the erstwhile New England Textile companies.

(3) The railroad companies and Hollywood.

(4) The Du ponts, the Cornings, the railroad companies and Hollywood.

(5) Both 1 & 2

57. What does the phrase “fatuous contentment’ as used in the fourth paragraph connote?

(1) A state of dé jà vu

(2) A state of delirium

(3) A state of false satisfaction

(4) A state of equanimity

(5) A state of deeper contentment

DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS forforforforfor QQQQQuestions 58 to 62:uestions 58 to 62:uestions 58 to 62:uestions 58 to 62:uestions 58 to 62: Read the arguments given below and answer the questions

that follow.

58. Reproduction in the hammerhead shark occurs once a year and each litter contains 20 to 40 pups.

Unlike many other shark species, the hammerhead shark has internal fertilization which creates a safe

environment for the sperm to unite with the egg. The embryo develops within the female inside a

placenta and is fed through an umbilical cord, similar to mammals. The gestation period is 10 to 12

months. A world-record 1,280 pound (580 kg) pregnant female hammerhead shark was caught off

Boca Grande, Florida on May 23, 2006. The shark was carrying 55 pups, which suggested that scientists

had previously underestimated the number of pups per gestation.

Which of the following if true would most seriously weaken the conclusion that the scientists had

previously underestimated the number of pups per gestation?

(1) There is a direct correlation observed between the gestation period undergone by a female shark and the number of pups it can carry; the shark in question went through the normal gestation period

of 10-12 months

(2) There is a direct correlation observed between the weight of a female shark and the number of pups

it can carry per gestation; most hammerhead sharks weigh somewhat less than 580 kgs.

(3) There is a direct correlation observed between how far north up the US Atlantic coast a hammerhead

shark is caught and the number of pups it carries in a litter; Florida is located towards the southern

tip of the US Atlantic coast

(4) There is no observed correlation between the weight of a female shark and the number of pups it

can carry per gestation; most hammerhead sharks weigh somewhat less than 580 kgs.

(5) There is a direct correlation observed between the number of scientists examining a shark and the

number of pups it carries; the scientist in this case were the same who had made the previousestimate

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59. The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence

of extra-terrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for or contact with such civilizations. Stated

formally, Fermi's paradox states : the size and age of the universe suggest that many technologically

advanced extraterrestrial civilizations ought to exist. However, this belief seems logically inconsistent

with the lack of observational evidence to support it.

Which of the following statements if true would most help to explain/resolve the Fermi paradox:(1) Life forms do arise and evolve elsewhere but events such as ice ages, asteroid impacts as experienced

on earth destroy life before complex life forms can evolve

(2) Some scientists believe that the conditions needed for complex life to evolve are unique to earth

and hence the likelihood of extraterrestrial life is marginal

(3) Technological civilizations may destroy themselves before or shortly after radio or space flight

technology through nuclear or biological warfare or accidental contamination

(4) According to Judeo-Christian belief God has placed human beings as the only intelligent life in the

universe

(5) It may be that advanced civilizations exist in our galaxy but they are simply too far apart for two-

way communication to be effective

60. The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning wheel. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves. Thedevice dramatically reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn, with a single worker able to

work eight or more spools at once. In 1778, Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule combining

the spinning jenny with Richard Arkwright’s spinning frame and again dramatically increasing yarn

production.

The spinning jenny was so effective in increasing the efforts of a worker’s labor that Karl Marx cited it

as one of the causes behind the elimination of slavery.

Which of the following statements, if true, would most significantly strengthen the conclusion drawn

by Karl Marx in the passage?

(1) Before the invention of the spinning jenny the number of slaves employed in the cotton plantations

for harvesting raw cotton had been on the rise(2) Before the invention of the jenny more slaves were employed in cotton plantations for producing

yarn than for harvesting raw cotton

(3) After the invention of the jenny the number of slaves employed in producing yarn in cotton

plantations fell dramatically compared to the number employed in other jobs on such plantations

(4) The invention of the spinning jenny made it possible for workers using it to charge more for their

skills

(5) The regular use of the spinning jenny marked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in many

countries

61. Our work has proven to be very successful in the past three years; each of our five clients has experienced

the fastest growth of sales in their history. Therefore, if your company wants to increase sales, do not

hesitate to call Singh and Mathur since we are the solution.Which of the following, if true, weakens the argument presented above?

(1) Most of the consultants at Singh and Mathur hold MBA degrees.

(2) Even without the help of Singh and Mathur, the five clients of Singh and Mathur would have

achieved the same growth rate in sales.

(3) Singh and Mathur does not provide a complete range of services.

(4) Singh and Mathur uses an updated accounting approach to help companies cut cost.

(5) Singh and Mathur has a dynamic DBMS

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62. The International Monetary Fund, which has 2,370 employees, most based in Washington, has

repositioned itself periodically since its creation after World War II. Its initial focus was to oversee the

exchange rate system established under the Bretton Woods agreements. That role ended in the 1970s.

In the 1980s, it emerged as the manager of the Latin American debt crisis. In the 1990s, it stepped in to

deal with the Mexican and East Asian financial crises.

The information above most strongly supports which one of the following?(1) The International Monetary Fund has been ineffective in most its dealings.

(2) Changing roles too often has earned a bad name for the International Monetary Fund.

(3) The International Monetary Fund has been receptive to the changes in economic environment of the

world and adapted itself accordingly.

(4) The IMF is a panacea of all the problems that ail the world economy.

(5) In future the IMF might get headlong into extracting the world out of its current morass.

DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for Questions 63 to 66:for Questions 63 to 66:for Questions 63 to 66:for Questions 63 to 66:for Questions 63 to 66: Fill up the blanks, numbered [63][63][63][63][63], [64][64][64][64][64] ............... up to [66][66][66][66][66], in the passage

below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each blank.

Companies require capital. Start-up companies, especially ...[63]......[63]......[63]......[63]......[63]... -based companies that present high risk

and reward, frequently need ...[64]......[64]......[64]......[64]......[64]... more capital than the founder’s wallet holds. This means that entrepreneurshave to seek other investors – and the success of the business will be heavily ...[65]......[65]......[65]......[65]......[65]... by the extent to which

they take account of the needs of these investors when ...[66]......[66]......[66]......[66]......[66]... up a business plan.

63. (1) innovation (2) network (3) tradition (4) gizmo (5) gimmick

64. (1) imperceptibly (2) considerably (3) daily (4) barely (5) substantial

65. (1) sought (2) felt (3) enticed (4) burdened (5) influenced

66. (1) drawing (2) giving (3) sorting (4) ambling (5) sketching

DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for Questions 67 to 70:for Questions 67 to 70:for Questions 67 to 70:for Questions 67 to 70:for Questions 67 to 70: In each question, the word at the top of the table is used in five

different ways, numbered (1) to (5). Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or

inappropriate.

67 . GAMEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAME

(1) With a few minutes to play, the game was 6 to 0.

(2) His game of tennis was improving.

(3) The new boy at school seemed to be fair game for practical jokers.

(4) They are

in the real-estate game.(5) Their game was quite see through.

68. CONFLICTCONFLICTCONFLICTCONFLICTCONFLICT

(1) There was considerable conflict about which plan should be accepted.

(2) The two accounts of what had happened were on conflict with each other.

(3) His conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post.

(4) He was immobilized by conflict and indecision.

(5) Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflict.

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69. PUREPUREPUREPUREPURE

(1) These days a lot of spas recommend pure oxygen treatment.

(2) A memory without a blot or contamination is a source of pure tonic.

(3) We felt pure and sweet as a new baby.

(4) He has descended from pure genetics.(5) We all heard the pure and lovely music wafting into our rooms.

70. STUDYSTUDYSTUDYSTUDYSTUDY

(1) The topic of Balzac’s study was human nature.

(2) She made a study of the music industry for her project.

(3) He published a study of Eliot’s poetry.

(4) She was lost in her study and did not hear us come in.

(5) He made a quick pencil sketch of her face as a study for the full portrait in oils.

DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for Questions 71 to 75:for Questions 71 to 75:for Questions 71 to 75:for Questions 71 to 75:for Questions 71 to 75: The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose

the best answer to each question.

In an essay called ‘Why I Write’ written in 1947, Orwell says that his desire has been to make political writing

into an art. He starts to write a book, he says, from ‘a sense of injustice, not from the idea that he is going to

produce a great work of art: I write it because there is some lie I want to expose, some fact to which I want to

draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. From the sketch of the political background to

Animal farm it will be quite clear that one of the purposes of the book is to expose the lie which (it seemed to

Orwell) Stalinist Russia had become. It was supposed to be a Socialist Union of States, but it had become a

dictatorship. Not only that. There were socialists in Britain and in the West generally who were so eager to

advance the cause that everything the Soviet Union did had to be accepted. The Soviet Union, in fact, damagedthe cause of true socialism. In a preface he wrote to Animal farm he says that for the past ten years I have been

convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the ‘socialist movement’.

Animal farm attempts, through a simplification of Soviet history, to clarify in the minds of readers what

Orwell felt Russia had become. The clarification is to get people to face the facts of injustice, of brutality. And

hopefully to get them to think out for themselves some way in which a true and democratic socialism (in

Orwell’s phrase) will be brought about. But Orwell’s purpose goes beyond the particular example of the

Russia Revolution. In Animal Farm he criticizes something inherent in an all revolutions and he himself was

conscious of this. Russia is the immediate example, but the book, Orwell himself said, is intended as a satire

on dictatorship in general. The time will come when the details of Russian history that roused Orwell’s anger

will be forgotten, and Animal Farm will be read for its bitter, ironic analysis of the stages all revolutions tend

to go through. In Animal Farm Orwell is thinking of the French Revolution and of the Spanish Civil War aswell as the Bolshevik Rebellion of 1917. After the initial excitement and enthusiasm, when personal interests

are almost forgotten, Orwell seems to say, the hard facts of life begin to make themselves felt again. To

survive one must produce food, and to produce food one must organize. To organize one needs administrators,

and they will be among the most intelligent and the most ambitious. Administrative authority gradually becomes

power and power becomes tyranny. Authority gradually becomes power and power becomes tyranny. Orwell

sees this process as something that is almost inevitable in human affairs, Revolution among them. In Animal

Farm this process works itself out with a logic that is simple and effective. Was it Orwell ’s purpose then to

present the reader with a view of man’s inability to change himself? Such a view would be directly contrary to

Orwell’s own, very personal brand of socialism, but there is no doubt that part of him, at least, felt that there

was something wrong with human nature and that political systems, because human, had a tendency towards

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corruption and tyranny. Animal Farm is a powerful parable of that tendency. It would also be possible to take

the view that Animal Farm confronts its readers with the tendencies towards tyranny in Revolution so that

they may be warned. Such things having happened before, they may very well happen again if care is not

taken to avoid them, next time. The reader will have to make up his own mind as to whether Orwell was a

moral pessimist or a moralistic socialist. It may be that they are the same thing. Animal Farm is a work that

raises questions not just about political systems, but about human nature itself. Can man change, or is he

condemned to a see-saw of systems that all end up the same? Because one of Orwell ’s deepest purposes was

primarily moral, it is not surprising that he chose a form traditionally associated with the moral as a means of

achieving his purpose: the animal fable.

71. As per the passage, all of the following statements indicates Orwell’s purpose(s) in writing Animal

Farm except-

(1) To expose the ‘Soviet myth’. As he saw that the mindless acceptance of everything that Stalin did in

the name of socialism was damaging socialism itself.

(2) To expose the nature of revolution itself. As he saw the revolutions decaying into rules of terror.

(3) To expose the inherent frailities of the human nature to usurp and misuse power for corrupt motives.

(4) To forewarn his readers of the tyranny in revolution that may endanger the future of socialism and

their society.(5) To draw the attention of the oppressed and get a hearing from the ideologues and the socialists for

having produced a great work of art.

72. Which of the following statements does not represent the image of Orwell which the author wants to

create in the minds of the readers?

(1) That Orwell despite being an Englishman upheld and advocated the principles of socialism.

(2) That he belongs to that breed of intellectuals who make use of their art as a weapon against injustice,

corruption, and tyranny.

(3) Inspite of his cognizance of human tendencies to get corrupt amidst blanket power, he was hopeful

that he could make people think out for themselves to bring about democratic socialism.

(4) That he had an exaggerated notion of himself as the representative of the social and moral consciencein a world that was bereft and oblivious of the same sublime virtues.

(5) None of the above.

73. A suitable title for the passage is

(1) A criticism of 'Animal Farm'

(2) Orwell and Dictatorship.

(3) Russia- A lie which needed to be exposed.

(4) Political writing and its impact.

(5) The purpose behind writing ‘Animal Farm’.

74 . ‘Animal farm’ can be best categorized as:

(1) A political analysis of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.(2) A socio-politico and ideological account of the erstwhile Soviet Union.

(3) A political satire on the Russian brand of socialism and its rule of terror.

(4) A moral fable a la Aesop’s mode narrated through animals.

(5) An exposition of corruption in people.

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75. Why did Orwell choose animals to relate his account and thoughts to his readers?

(1) To remind us that though we have been accepting the tradition of the animal fable the moral of the

fable relates to us as humans.

(2) Because, relating humans with animals and vice versa was a novel literary practice in the genre of

satire writing.

(3) It’s easier to arouse the sympathy of the reader with animal characters than that with the human

ones.

(4) He probably wanted to escape any counterattack by the soviet dictators.

(5) He despite his will to expose the lie did not have the audacity to put his mind straight.

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