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A Test of Cleverness

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A Test of Cleverness

You have worked hard throughout the year and are on the way to your college and take your final exam in a hurry. As you near the college, you notice a youngster riding a bike doing careless stunts. In the flash of a second, he hits an elderly man who drops to the ground, is rescued by a couple of men who were going with him. 

What would you do? 

a) Reach your college to take your paper 

b) Call the police to report the misbehaviour  

c) Find the boy and ask him what happened 

d) Take the elderly to the hospital  

e) Call the emergency number 

A 30-year-old man is setting in the street begging you for money. Your elder cousin says he is definitely a heroin addict and spends most of his money on buying drugs and says they are all habitual beggars. The man sheds tears on hearing and said he never used drugs nor begged.  

What would you do? 

a) Counsel him to stop heroin 

b) Let your cousin handle this 

c) Give him some money  

d) Listen to why he needs money  

e) Check his arms for injection marks  

Because of increasing rates of crime in the society, the government has called for articles on practical solutions to end the crime. Your father has written an article and proposed a solution that the severity of the punishments given to criminals should be raised sharply and we shift anyone suspected of even minor crime to an Island near Karachi so to purify the society. He wants your opinion.  

What would you tell? 

a) All criminals together could be risky 

b) Cannot give a higher opinion than yours 

c) Noticing a clearly harmful side to this 

d) Would be a truly ingenious solution 

e) Need to do surveys that first


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