List of top Verbal Reasoning Questions

Following several years of declining advertising sales, the Greenville Times reorganized its advertising sales force. Before reorganization, the sales force was organized geographically, with some sales representatives concentrating on city-center businesses and others concentrating on different outlying regions. The reorganization attempted to increase the sales representatives' knowledge of clients' businesses by having each sales representative deal with only one type of industry or of retailing. After the reorganization, revenue from advertising sales increased.
In assessing whether the improvement in advertising sales can properly be attributed to the reorganization, it would be most helpful to find out which of the following?
Metal rings recently excavated from seventh-century settlements in the western part of Mexico were made using the same metallurgical techniques as those used by Ecuadorian artisans before and during that period. These techniques are sufficiently complex to make their independent development in both areas unlikely. Since the people of these two areas were in cultural contact, archaeologists hypothesize that the metallurgical techniques used to make the rings found in Mexico were learned by Mexican artisans from Ecuadorian counterparts.
Which of the following would it be most useful to establish in order to evaluate the archaeologists' hypothesis?
Prolonged spells of hot, dry weather at the end of the grape-growing season typically reduce a vineyard's yield, because the grapes stay relatively small. In years with such weather, wine producers can make only a relatively small quantity of wine from a given area of vineyards. Nonetheless, in regions where wine producers generally grow their own grapes, analysts typically expect a long, hot, dry spell late in the growing season to result in increased revenues for local wine producers.
Which of the following, if true, does most to justify the analysts' expectation?
In the past, most children who went sledding in the winter snow in Verland used wooden sleds with runners and steering bars. Ten years ago, smooth plastic sleds became popular; they go faster than wooden sleds but are harder to steer and slow. The concern that plastic sleds are more dangerous is clearly borne out by the fact that the number of children injured while sledding was much higher last winter than it was 10 years ago.
Which of the following, if true in Verland, most seriously undermines the force of the evidence cited?
Vasquez-Morrell Assurance specializes in insuring manufacturers. Whenever a policyholder makes a claim, a claims adjuster determines the amount that Vasquez-Morrell is obligated to pay. Vasquez-Morrell is cutting its staff of claims adjusters by 15 percent. To ensure that the company's ability to handle claims promptly is affected as little as possible by the staff cuts, consultants recommend that Vasquez-Morrell lay off those adjusters who now take longest, on average, to complete work on claims assigned to them.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the consultants' criterion for selecting the staff to be laid off?
The author of the passage asserts which of the following about women reformers who tried to abolish child labor?
The passage suggests that which of the following was a reason for the difference of opinion between working-class mothers and women reformers on the issue of child labor?
According to the passage, one of the most striking achievements of white middle-class women reformers during the Progressive Era was
The author of the passage mentions the observations of women historians (lines 15-17) most probably in order to
The view mentioned in line 17 of the passage refers to which of the following?
Which of the following most accurately represents Searle's criticism of the brain-as-computer metaphor, as that criticism is described in the passage?
The author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about the simulation of organ functions?
Which of the following is most consistent with Searle's reasoning as presented in the passage?
The primary purpose of the passage is to
From the passage, it can be inferred that the author would agree with Searle on which of the following points?
It can be inferred that the author of the passage believes that Searle's argument is flawed by its failure to
Kirmani's third study, as described in the passage, suggests which of the following conclusions about a black-and-white advertisement?
Kirmani's research, as described in the passage, suggests which of the following regarding consumers' expectations about the quality of advertised products?
The primary purpose of the passage is to
The passage suggests that Kirmani would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about consumers' perceptions of the relationship between the frequency with which a product is advertised and the product's quality?
The main purpose of the passage is to
Which of the following best describes the purpose of the sentence in lines 10-15?

The questions in this group are based on the content of a passage. After reading the passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions follow- ing the passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
Until recently corporate ideology in the United States has held that bigger is better. This traditional view of the primacy of big, centralized companies is now being challenged as some of the giants of American business are being out formed by a new generation of smaller, streamlined business. If it was the industrial revolutions that spawned the area of massive industrialize companies, then perhaps it is the information revolutions of the 1990s that is spawning the area of the small company.
For most of this century, big companies dominated an American business scene that that seemed to thrive on its own Grandness of scale. The expansion westward, the growth of railroad and steel industries, an almost limitless supply of cheap raw materials, plus a populations boom That provided an ever increasing demand for new products (although not cheap source of labor) all coincided to encourage the growth of large companies.
But rapid developments in the market place have begun to change the accepted rules of business and have under-scored the need for fast reaction times. Small companies without huge overhead and inventory, can respond quickly to a technologically advanced age in which new products and technologies can become outmoded within a year of their being brought to market.
Of course, successful emerging small companies face a potential dilemma in that their very success will tend to turn them into copies of the large corporate dinosaurs they are now sup- planting. To avoid this trap, small companies may look to the example of several CEOs of large corporations who have broken down their sprawling organizations into small semi-independent divisions capable of making their way into the twenty first century.

The questions in this group are based on the content of a passage. After reading the passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following the passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
One recent example of industrial hyper growth has taken place in the recycling industry, led by the rapid expansion of the recycled paper market. Though many laws were enacted in the late 1980s to encourage (and in some cases require) the collection of waste paper for recycling, there were not, at that time, companies with sufficient capacity to recycle it all. Consequently the collected paper accumulated in storage, usually at the expense of the recycling companies, thereby adding to their overhead and squeezing their already thin profit margins.
Today a different situation exists. Fifty-seven new paper mills have been built since 1991, and of these, at least twenty-nine use recycled fiber. This surge in capacity has resulted in a concurrent rise in profits. The price per Ton of waste paper has quadrupled in the past year, as have the prices of corrugated cardboard and used newsprint. Trash haulers have benefited from these conditions by combining their trash hauling and recycling operations.
Recycling centers are connected both to the clients to whom they sell end-products and to those from whom they collect refuse; thus, the company gets paid twice for the same trash, once for hauling the waste and once for selling the usable material. Industry profits have increased more than tenfold during this period. As the industry has become more competitive, some haulers have chosen to rebate a portion of this money to their clients in the hopes of ensuring their loyalty.

The best labor negotiators are the ones that have the ability of settling even the most irreconcilable stalemates.