Verbal Reasoning Questions and Answers

P : "No Hardy, that is not a dull number in the very least".

Q : Hardy, who was a very shy man, could not find the words for his distress.

R : It was 1729.

S : The best he could do, as he got to the bed side was "I say Ramanujan, I thought the number of taxi I came down in was a very dull number"

S6: It is the lowest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes.

The Proper sequence should be:

P : A few among the new aspirants dazzle with the colour of youth, like fresh saplings.

Q : It rains an abundance of music for over a fortnight.

R : Thick clouds expectation charge the atmosphere with voluminous advertisements.

S : At the end of it one is left with the feeling that the music of only those artists seasoned by careful nurturing, stands tall like well-routed trees.

S6: Many a hastily planed shrub gets washed away in the storm.

The Proper sequence should be:

P : The dove saw the ant struggling in the water in a helpless condition.

Q : All its efforts to come up failed.

R : One day it suddenly slipped into water.

S : A dove lived in the tree on the bank not far from the spot.

S6: She was touched.

The Proper sequence should be:

P : So long as one is conscious of a restraint, it is possible to resist it or to near it as a necessary evil and to keep free in spirit.

Q : Slavery begins when one ceases to feel that restraint and it depends on if the evil is accepted as good.

R : There is, however, a subtler domination exercised in the sphere of ideas by one culture to another.

S : Political subjection primarily means restraint on the outer life of people.

S6: Cultural subjection is ordinarily of an unconscious character and it implies slavery from the very start.

The Proper sequence should be:

P : It is not merely going through the ritual prescribed to us.

Q : It is not a question of ceremonial piety.

R : Unless that kind of transformation occurs, you are not an authentically religious man.

S : It is the remarking of your own self, the transformation of your nature.

S6: A man of that character is free from fear, free from hatred.

The Proper sequence should be: