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General awareness and Aptitude test
ANALOGY TEST
Analogies Test your ability to see the
relationship between types of relationships and
recognize which relationship are similar.
Hints for Answering Questions:
1.
Establish the relationship
Before you see the available answers try and
establish what is the relationship between given
pair.
Example:
Author : Book
a.
Poem : poet
b.
Ring : goldsmith
c.
Carpenter : hammer
d.
Composer : song
The relationship is that author creates a book.
Take the keyword
‘create’
and try to fit this in
all given choices
Poem
‘create’
poet
wrong
Ring
‘create’
Goldsmith
wrong
Carpenter
‘create’
hammer
wrong
Composer
‘create’
song
right
So ‘d’ is the correct answer.
2.
Sequence of items is important
Like in above example person ie ‘Author’
comes first and the item ie ‘Book’ comes second.
So in the answer also the person comes second.
The only answer that satisfy this condition is (d).
Following types of relationship are possible.
a) Purpose relationship
b) Cause and effect relationship
c) Part and whole relationship
d) Part and part relationship
e) Action and object relationship
f)
Synonym and antonym relationship
g) Place relationship
h) Degree relationship
i)
Characteristic relationship
j)
Sequence relationship
k) Numerical relationship
l)
Association relationship
Multiple Choice Questions
In each of the questions below, a related pair
of words(in capital letters) is given. Select the
lettered pair out of four pair of words (in capital
letters) is given. Select the lettered pair out of
four pair of words that expresses the relationship
that is most similar to that of the capitalized pair.
1) SCISSORS:CLOTH ::
a) Axe:Wood
b) Stone : Grinder
c) Knife: Stone
d) Gun: Hunt
2) FOOD:HUNGER ::
a) Axe:Wood
b) Stone : Grinder
c) Knife: Stone
d) Gun: Hunt
3) BIRD : NEST ::
a) dog : doghouse
b) squirrel : tree
c) beaver : dam
d) cat : litter box
e) book : library
4)
DALMATIAN : DOG ::
a) Nightingale : bird
b) horse : pony
c) shark : great white
d) ant : insect
e) stock : savings
5) DOCTOR : HOSPITAL ::
a) sports fan : stadium
b) cow : farm
c) professor : college
d) criminal : jail
e) food : grocery store
6)
CUB : BEAR ::
a) piano : orchestra
b) puppy : dog
c) cat : kitten
d) eagle : predator
e) fork : utensil
