PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

BOX(ES) BASED PUZZLES

PREPARATORY SET-85 (EASY)

Direction (Qs.1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below.

 

Seven novels are arranged in eight shelf and are numbered 1-8 from bottom to top. The books are Emma, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Pride & Prejudice, Animal Farm, Middlemarch and Midnight’s Children. One shelf is empty.

 

No novel is kept between Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein. Pride & Prejudice is kept in such a way that only three novels are kept above it and 3 novels are kept below it. Middlemarch is kept at a gap of 2 shelf from the vacant shelf. Animal Farm is kept at a shelf numbered twice than the shelf carrying Middlemarch. Sum of shelf numbers of Emma and Middlemarch is equal to the sum of shelf numbers of Wuthering Heights and Animal Farm. None of the shelf below the shelf carrying Midnight’s Children is vacant.

 

Question No : 1

Which shelf is vacant?

(1) Three

(2) Four

(3) Five

(4) Two

(5) Eight

Question No : 2

How many novels are there between shelf 2 and Emma?

(1) Three

(2) Six

(3) Four

(4) Five

(5) Can’t be determined

Question No : 3

Which novel is kept just above and just below the vacant shelf respectively?

(1) Middlemarch and Pride and Prejudice

(2) Midnight’s Children and Frankenstein

(3) Animal Farm and Wuthering Heights

(4) Pride and Prejudice and Midnight’s Children

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

If Emma and Frankenstein exchange their shelf, then how many novels are kept below Frankenstein?

(1) Six

(2) Four

(3) Five

(4) Three

(5) One

Question No : 5

Which of the following is correct?

(1) Animal Farm lies just above Midnight’s Children

(2) There are two shelf between Wuthering Heights and Midnight’s

(3) Emma is on shelf 7

(4) Four novels are kept above the vacant shelf

(5) All are incorrect