PZ

PZ Verbal Ability Test

Sample Solution

Instructions

This Verbal reasoning test comprises 7 questions, and you will have 7 minutes in
which to correctly answer as many as you can.

The test comprises of several formats of Verbal Test

You will have to work quickly and accurately to perform well in this test. If you
don't know the answer to a question, leave it and come back to it if you have time.

You may click Back and Next during the test to review or skip questions.

You can submit your test at any time. If the time limit is up before you click
submit the test will automatically be submitted with the answers you have
selected. It is recommended to keep working until the time limit is up.

Try to find a time and place where you will not be interrupted during the test.
When you are ready, begin the test.

Note: This Sample Questions does not consist all the question format you will see in
the main PZ test, to see the PZ or PWC complete format follow the link
http://gsesolutions.blogspot.com/p/pwc-aptitude- test.html
 SOLUTIONS

The following passage is an e-mail conversation between three

friends on an issue widely publicized on the national dailies. Use it to
answer question (1 – 4).

Esther:

The rampant breakage by criminals into the city‟s stores is really discouraging.
Can the police really do anything to checkmate this acts? The dailies today wrote
on Precision Manufactured Arms found at the scene of the crime.

Mark:

Yes, Esther this news is getting rampant. Upon investigating the case, the officers
learned that the weapon at the scene was a 45 caliber legally purchased guns.
Does it then mean that people purchase gun for crime or do these people fail to
report to the police when these guns were stolen from them.

Jude:

I think I have a different view. Based on the paper I read, police officers were led
to believe that many weapon sold at a certain gun store were sold illegally and
the paper did not account if the guns found at the scene of the crime was legally
or illegally purchased.

To get our PZ or PWC Complete Package Visit

http://gsesolutions.blogspot.com/p/pwc-aptitude- test.html
 SOLUTIONS

QUESTION 1

All 3 persons in the conversation seems to have a concurrent account of the

discussion

A. Only Esther and mark appears to be on the same page

B. All 3 appears to have agreeable view of the matter
C. Only Mark and Jude seems to be agreeing
D. Esther is the one that have a different view of the account
E. All 3 have disparaging view on the matter

Answer is A

Explanation

This is true because Mark concurred to what Esther said by saying „yes‟ then
further buttressed Esther view

QUESTION 2

The police seem to be doing a very good work concerning crime

A. True
B. False
C. Cannot tell

To get our PZ or PWC Complete Package Visit

http://gsesolutions.blogspot.com/p/pwc-aptitude- test.html
 SOLUTIONS

Explanation

Answer is C

We do not know for sure based on the passage if the police is doing a really good
work or not. This idea was not clearly explained in the passage. Cannot Say

QUESTION 3

The gun manufacturing company mentioned in the passage

A. No gun manufacturing company was mentioned

B. 45 caliber gun manufacturing company
C. Precision from manufacturing company
D. Both 45 caliber and precision arms were mentioned
E. 45 caliber precision arms manufacturing company

Answer is C

Explanation

Precision Arms Manufacturing Company.

To get our PZ or PWC Complete Package Visit

http://gsesolutions.blogspot.com/p/pwc-aptitude- test.html
 SOLUTIONS

The next 3Questions deal with Critical Reasoning:

QUESTION 4

This comprehensive history of cartography traces the discovery and feats

of technical ingenuity by which men have, over the centuries, succeeded in
mapping first the surface of the globe, then Earth‟s interior, and finally
they explored the moon and planets.

A. First the surface of the globe, then Earth‟s interior, and finally they
explored the moon and planets

B. Firstly the surface of the globe, then Earth‟s interior, and finally they
explore the moon and planets

C. First the surface of the globe, than Earth‟s interior, and finally they explore
the moon and planets

D. First the surface of the globe, then Earth‟s interior, and finally were
explored the moon and planets

E. First the surface of the globe, then Earth‟s interior, and finally the moon
and planets

Answer is E

Explanation

Lack of parallelism. This is a series of noun phrase: you need a noun phrase
(“the moon and planets”) to complete it

To get our PZ or PWC Complete Package Visit

http://gsesolutions.blogspot.com/p/pwc-aptitude- test.html
 SOLUTIONS

QUESTION 5

Being that he is that kind of a boy, he should not be blamed for his mistakes.

A. Being that he is that kind of a boy,

B. Being that he is that kind of boy
C. Since he is that kind of boy
D. Since that he is that sort of a boy
E. Because he is that sort of a boy

Answer is C

Explanation

Errors in following convention. There are two errors in the underlined portion of
this sentence: the expression being that is nonstandard and the phrase kind of
(or sort of) should not be followed by a or an.

To get our PZ or PWC Complete Package Visit

http://gsesolutions.blogspot.com/p/pwc-aptitude- test.html
 SOLUTIONS

Questions 6 and 7 are based on the following passage.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man recounts the tale of Stephen Dedalus, a
sensitive young Dubliner. As a child, he suffers because of his classmates‟ cruelty,
his Jesuit teachers‟ authoritarianism, and his country‟s political turmoil. Growing
older, Stephen becomes increasingly isolated from his friends, his church, and his
country, viewing them all as heartless and hypocritical. Intent on becoming a
writer, he eventually concludes he must sever all ties-family, friends, church, and
country-to achieve fulfillment as an artist. The hero must leave Ireland, leave the
Church, to set off alone “to forge in the sanity of [his] soul the uncreated
conscience of [his] race”

QUESTION 6

The passage as a whole suggests that achieving “fulfillment as an artist” (line 6 –

7) might best be characterized as

A. A modest accomplishment
B. A worthwhile endeavor
C. An unrealistic goal
D. A painful process
E. A passing phase

To get our PZ or PWC Complete Package Visit

http://gsesolutions.blogspot.com/p/pwc-aptitude- test.html
 SOLUTIONS

Explanation

Answer is B

A process that begins with childhood suffering and culminates in the

abandonment of all human ties clearly must have been painful.

QUESTION 7

As used in line 8, the word “forge” most nearly means

A. Counterfeit
B. Fashion
C. Duplicate
D. Alter
E. Melt

Answer is B

Explanation

In hoping to forge “the uncreated conscience” of his race, Dedalus wishes

to fashion or make a great work of art.

To get our PZ or PWC Complete Package Visit

http://gsesolutions.blogspot.com/p/pwc-aptitude- test.html