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Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight friends who live in an eight-story building. The ground floor is numbered one and the topmost floor is numbered eight. Each of them studies different subjects, viz MATHS, CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, BIOLOGY, ENGLISH, HISTORY, CIVICS and GEOGRAPHY, but not necessarily in the same order. There is only one floor between A and the floor on which the one who study GEOGRAPHY lives. The person who study GEOGRAPHY does not live on floor number 1. D lives just below B. The one who study MATHS lives on an even-numbered floor and just above the floor on which the one who study ENGLISH lives. The person who study HISTORY lives on an even-numbered floor but not on the 8th floor. Neither D nor H lives on the 1st floor. Only one person lives between the one who study CIVICS and D. A lives on an odd-numbered floor and E lives just above A. B lives on the fourth floor.
Only two persons live between the person who study HISTORY and A. F lives just below the one who study ENGLISH. D study neither ENGLISH nor GEOGRAPHY. One who study Physics does not live on an odd-numbered floor. G does not study CHEMISTRY. There are two floors between the floor on which H lives and the floor on which E lives. Only two persons live between the one who study BIOLOGY and the one who PHYSICS .

Q1. Who among the following study CHEMISTRY?
(a) D
(b) C
(c) F
(d) E
(e) None of the above

Q2. How many persons are there between E and B?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four
(e) None of the above

Q3. Who among the following lives on the topmost floor?
(a) The one who study MATHS
(b) The one who study HISTORY
(c) The one who study PHYSICS
(d) The one who study CHEMISTRY
(e) None of the above

Q4. Which of the following combinations is/are true?
(a) Floor no. 2 – D – BIOLOGY
(b) Floor no. 5 – F – GEOGRAPHY
(c) Floor no. 1 – C – CHEMISTRY
(d) Floor no. 8 – E – MATHS
(e) None of the above

Q5. A study which of the following subjects?
(a) MATHS
(b) GEOGRAPHY
(c) HISTORY
(d) ENGLISH
(e) None of the above

Directions (5-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Eight friends A, B C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a straight line facing north. All of them like a different subject, viz English, Hindi, Maths, Biology, Physics, Psychology, Chemistry and Accounts, but not necessarily in the same order.
The one who reads Accounts sits third to the right of G. C is on the immediate left of G. The person who reads Maths sits second to the left of C. B sits second to the right of H, who read neither Accounts nor Maths. Only two persons sit between C and the one who reads Physics. A and F are immediate neighbours and both of them do not read Accounts. The person who reads English sits second to the right of A. There are two persons between D and the one who reads Hindi. D does not like Accounts. The one who reads Psychology is an immediate neighbor of the one who reads Accounts. The one who reads Physics sits second to the left of A. One of the immediate neighbours of G reads Chemistry. D sits on an extreme end of the line.

Q6. Who among the following likes Biology?
(a) A
(b) H
(c) B
(d) D
(e) None of the above

Q7. Who among the following sits on the immediate left of F?
(a) C
(b) A
(c) D
(d) E
(e) None of the above

Q8. C likes which of the following subjects?
(a) Hindi
(b) English
(c) Psychology
(d) Biology
(e) None of the above

Q9. How many persons are there between A and H?
(a) Three
(b) Two
(c) None
(d) Four
(e) None of the above

Q10. What is the position of B with respect to the one who likes Chemistry?
(a) Second to the left
(b) Second to the right
(c) Third to the right
(d) Fourth to the left
(e) None of the above

Q11. Statement: The government has increased the price of aviation turbine fuel by 9.2 percent, while that of non-subsidised cooking gas was raised by Rs. 21 per cylinder.
Which of the following may be a problem reason(s) for the increase in the prices of turbine fuel and gas cylinder by the government?
(a) Increase in the price of gas and fuel in the international market.
(b) Increase in taxes of fuel and cooking gas by the government.
(c) Decrease in the subsidies given by the government of fuel and cooking gas
(d) To overcome the loss on the petroleum products by the oil marketing companies
(e) All the above

Q12. Statement: The pollution level in the cities of Kerala has reached an alarming level.
Which of the following courses of action should be taken by the Kerala government to decrease the pollution level in the cities?
(a) Closing down of chimneys and shifting of factories outside the cities.
(b) The government should make the use of CNG by vehicles maCivicstory in the cities.
(c) The government should increase the taxes on the registration of new diesel vehicles.
(d) The government should impose additional taxes on the entrance of diesel vehicle in the cities.
(e) All of these

Q13. Statement: The government has hiked the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy from Rs. 60 to Rs. 1,470 per quintal for the year 2016-17 kharif season.
Which of the following will not be an effect of the increase in the MSP by the government?
(a) Farmers’ income may increase in the country.
(b) The retail price of rice will decrease in the market.
(c) The production of kharif crop may increase for the year 2016-17.
(d) More farmers will cultivate kharif crops.
(e) All of these

Q14. Statement: Hong Kong & Shanghai Corp. (HSBC) has decided to shut 24 of its 50 branches in India.
Which of the following may be the reason for the shutdown of branches in India?
(A) Small number of retail customers
(B) Retail banking customer taking online route for their transaction
(C) Cost reduction measures taken by the bank
(D) Major branches of HSBC running in loss in the world
(a) Only (B) and (C)
(b) Only (A) and (D)
(c) Only (A) and (C)
(d) Only (A) and (B)
(e) None of the above

Q15. Statement: Future Group has launched a discount scheme on the first eight days of every month at the country’s largest supermarket chain Big Bazaar in the most aggressive attempt to compete with Amazon and Flipkart.
Which of the following will not be an effect of the scheme launched by the Future Group?
(a) The footfalls in Big Bazaar will increase.
(b) The profit of the Future Group will increase.
(c) The sale of the online companies running in the same business may decrease.
(d) The sales of small retailers will increase.
(e) Only (c) and (d)

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