Practice Test: Logical Reasoning - 3 | 40 Questions MCQ Test Logical Reasoning for CLAT CLAT

QUESTION: 1

Select the most appropriate answer.

Q.
The National Book Shop does not care about its customers. I was looking for a cookery book there last week, and it took me ten minutes to get the attention of a sales person.

Which one of the following statements best express the assumption underlying the customer’s conclusion?

A.
Customers who shop for cookery books do not like to wait.
B.
Some shops are careless about their customers.
C.
Ten minutes is too long for anyone to wait for a sales-person in a book shop.
D.
The National Book Shop is a bad place to buy books.

Solution:

The correct option is C.
Direct from the passage.

QUESTION: 2

Select the most appropriate answer.

Q.
Since all tigers which I have seen so far were having dark brown stripes, it follows that the tigers I will see when I visit Bennerghatta Sanctuary will also have dark brown stripes.

Which of the following most closely parallels the reasoning of the above argument?

A.
Sinceno medicine I have tried for my insomnia has ever helped, this new product will probably not work either.
B.
Because every society has a word for ‘justice’, the concept of fairness must be inherent in biological and psychological make up of human species.
C.
Every war film I have seem has failed to interest me, so a film which fails to interest me must be a war film.
D.
Since all the telephones installed in our offices are dark blue in colours, it follows that dark blue coloured telephones are very good.

Solution:

QUESTION: 3

Select the most appropriate answer.

Q.
Until recent times it was the local communities that have used, developed and conserved biological diversity who have been custodians of the biological wealth of this planet. It is their control, their knowledge and their rights that need to be strengthened if the foundations of biodiversity conservation are to be strong and deep. However, instead of being treated as common property of local communities or as national property of sovereign states, the Third World’s biodiversity has been treated by the Western industrialized States as common heritage of humankind. Such claims are not only atrocious, but are indicative of Western neo-imperialism. One of the following statements is not in conformity with the above view. Identify these statements.

A.
The Western Industrialised States do not have any moral justification for claiming an interest in something that belongs to the local committees on account of the efforts of generations.
B.
The biological diversity which the Western Industrialized States claim as ‘common heritage humankind’ belongs to all nations of this planet and can be exploited or used by all since it is a wealth belonging to all nations.
C.
It is necessary to recognise the contribution of local communities as custodians and developers of biological diversity and the knowledge of these communities ought to be strengthened.
D.
The author envisages a conflict between Third World States and Western States insofar as utilization of biological diversity of this planet is concerned.

Solution:

The correct option is C.
‘ It is their control, their knowledge and their rights that need to be strengthened if the foundations of biodiversity conservation are to be strong and deep.’
This option does not refer to the passage.

QUESTION: 4