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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
All of the following statements can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT that:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Following from the passage, which one of the following may be seen as a characteristic of a utopian society?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which sequence of words below best captures the narrative of the passage?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
All of the following arguments are made in the passage EXCEPT that:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following, if true, would best complement the passage's findings?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
All of the following constitute a point of difference between the “original” and "modified" versions of the marshmallow test EXCEPT that:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following cannot be inferred from Alexandra Schnell's experiment?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
In which one of the following scenarios would the cuttlefish's behaviour demonstrate self-control?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following best explains the "additional complexity" that the example of the incense burner illustrates regarding personhood for the Classic Maya?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following, if true about the Classic Maya, would invalidate the purpose of the iPhone example in the passage?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
On the basis of the passage, which one of the following worldviews can be inferred to be closest to that of the Classic Maya?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following, if true, would not undermine the democratising potential of the Classic Maya worldview?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Today, "conflat[ing] consumption with virtue" can be seen in the marketing of:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
This book review argues that, according to Rappaport, tea is unlike other "morality" products because it:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
According to this book review, A Thirst for Empire says that, in addition to "profit-motivated marketers", tea drinking was promoted in Britain by all of the following EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author of this book review is LEAST likely to support the view that:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Directions for Summary: A paragraph is followed by four options which have summarized the passage in their own way. Pick the option that best summarizes the passage: McGurk and MacDonald (1976) reported a powerful multis…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Directions for sentence exclusion: Five sentences are given below; out of these, four come together to form a coherent paragraph, but one sentence does not fit into the sequence. Choose the sentence that does not fit int…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Directions for Summary: A paragraph is followed by four options which have summarized the passage in their own way. Pick the option that best summarizes the passage: Foreign peacekeepers often exist in a bubble in the po…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Four sentences that are a part of paragraph are given below; the sentences may or may not be in the right order; create the sequence that forms a coherent paragraph. 1. In the central nervous systems of other animal spec…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Four sentences that are a part of paragraph are given below; the sentences may or may not be in the right order; create the sequence that forms a coherent paragraph. 1. The work is more than the text, for the text only t…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Four sentences that are a part of paragraph are given below; the sentences may or may not be in the right order; create the sequence that forms a coherent paragraph. 1. A popular response is the exhortation to plant more…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Directions for sentence exclusion: Five sentences are given below; out of these, four come together to form a coherent paragraph, but one sentence does not fit into the sequence. Choose the sentence that does not fit int…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 1 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Directions for Summary: A paragraph is followed by four options which have summarized the passage in their own way. Pick the option that best summarizes the passage: Developing countries are becoming hotbeds of business…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following best describes the liberal perception of Indian nationalism?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following, if true, would weaken the author's claims in the passage?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
On the basis of the information in the passage, all of the following are true about the spiritual/material dichotomy of Indian nationalism EXCEPT that it:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Which one of the following explains the "contradictory pulls" on Indian nationalism?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author of the passage is most likely to support which one of the following statements?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
“. . . we cannot catch a glimpse of things-in-themselves around the corner of our own eyes; we cannot form an idea of reality that floats above the processes of our conceiving it . . .” Which one of the following stateme…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author discusses all of the following arguments in the passage, EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
According to the last paragraph of the passage, “We hold our beliefs and presumptive knowledges more or less confidently, usually depending on” something. Which one of the following most broadly captures what we depend o…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author implies that, like scholars, successful leaders:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
Regarding which one of the following quotes could we argue that the author overemphasises the importance of fiction?
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The central theme of the passage is about the choice between:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author would support none of the following statements about political power EXCEPT that:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
From the passage, we can infer that the author is in favour of:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
We can infer all of the following about indigenous languages from the passage EXCEPT that:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author lists all of the following as reasons for the decline or disappearance of a language EXCEPT:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The author mentions the Welsh language to show that:
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Biologists who publish their research directly to the Web have been labelled as “rogue”, b…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Creativity is now viewed as the engine of economic progress. Various organizations are dev…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium MCQ (Single Correct)
The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. The unlikely alliance of the incumbent industrialist and the distressed unemployed worker…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer: 1. The care wi…
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MBA CAT 2021 Slot 2 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Medium NAT (Numeric)
Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer: 1. It has take…
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