Alphabet Test Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Correct answer: Anguish

Comparing letter by letter, the alphabetical order of the five words is:

Anguish → Animate → Animosity → Ankle → Announce

All five share An, and the third letter orders them: g, i, i, k, n. Anguish leads on its g. The two Ani- words then need the sixth letter, where Animate's a precedes Animosity's s.

Answer: D

Letters in the word                                                          Letter in the alphabet

CHA                                                                                           CBA

RS                                                                                               RS

Answer: B

Correct answer: 2

Keeping the letters of POSTSCRIPT in order and using each once, the word divides into two: POST and SCRIPT.

The division is clean, using all ten letters with none repeated and none moved. That completeness is what makes it the intended answer - a third word would need a letter used twice or taken out of sequence, and the question forbids both.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Practical

Comparing letter by letter, the alphabetical order of the five words is:

Practical → Practies → Praise → Prank → Prayer

All five share Pra, and the fourth letter gives c, c, i, n, y. The two Prac- words go first, and among them the sixth letter decides: Practical before Practies, since c precedes e. Five letters agree before anything separates them.

Answer: B

The new alphabet series is :
M  L  K  J  I  H  G  F  E  D  C  B  A
N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z
The ninth letter from the right is R.
The ninth letter to the left of R is  E.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Three

The test is that the positional gap equals the alphabetical gap, and "in the same sequence" means the second letter must come later in the alphabet as well as later in the word.

In C-O-R-P-O-R-A-T-E three pairs qualify: P and R (positions 4 and 6, two apart; alphabet 16 and 18, two apart), P and T (4 and 8; 16 and 20), and R and T (6 and 8; 18 and 20). P and O also match by distance but run backwards alphabetically, so the sequence condition excludes them.

Answer: C

The new alphabet series is :
a  B  c  D  e  F  g  H  i  J  k  L  m
N  o  P  q  R  s  T  u  V  w  X  y  Z
The third month after July is October.
Clearly, 'OCTOBER' will be written as 'ocToBeR'.

Answer: B

Correct answer: L

The midpoint of positions 5 and 19 is

\[\frac{5 + 19}{2} = 12\]

The twelfth letter of the alphabet is L, which sits seven places after E and seven places before S.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Three

The four letters E, S, R and O rearrange into three ordinary English words: ROSE, SORE and ROES, the last being the plural of roe.

Each uses all four letters exactly once, which is the condition set. Working systematically by first letter - asking what can begin with R, then S, then O, then E - is more reliable than waiting for words to suggest themselves.

Answer: A

Correct answer: B

Reading through H D Y S M W N B Q P O C R T B L Z V E G U F, the letter B appears twice - at the eighth position and again at the fifteenth.

The series has twenty-two letters and every other letter appears once, so B is the only repeat. Working systematically rather than by impression is what makes this quick: a single pass marking each letter as it is met finds the duplicate without rereading.