Ability Questions and Correct Answers
1. (D) emotion correct answer: When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following would be
second?
(A) flag
(B) house
(C) decade
(D) emotion
2. (D) neutron correct answer: When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following would be fourth?
(A) microphone
(B) neutral
(C) lithograph
(D) neutron
3. (B) earnest correct answer: When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following would be third?
(A) excitement
(B) earnest
(C) early
(D) earn
4. (A) catalog correct answer: When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following would be second?
(A) catalog
(B) catch
(C) carbon
(D) curb
5. (A) element correct answer: When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following would be third?
(A) element
(B) elephant
(C) box
(D) department
6. (A) carton correct answer: When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following would be third?
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Ability Questions and Correct Answers
(A) carton
(B) cartographer
(C) cart
(D) cartoon
7. (D) omniscient correct answer: When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following would be
second?
(A) polarize
(B) omnipotent
(C) polygraph
(D) omniscient
8. (B) Walter, Henry Delano correct answer: When alphabetizing correctly, which of the
following would be fourth?
(A) Walsh, Carol C.
(B) Walter, Henry Delano
(C) Walsh, Joseph C.
(D) Walsheim, Joe
9. (B) McDonohugh, K. correct answer: When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following
would be third?
(A) McDonough, Kevin
(B) McDonohugh, K.
(C) Da Costa, Hector
(D) Costa, Hector David
10. (C) Sorensen, Edward J. correct answer: When alphabetizing correctly, which of the
following would be fourth?
(A) Albers, J. A.
(B) Albers, John Anthony
(C) Sorensen, Edward J.
(D) Sorensen, Ed Joseph
11. (A) Smith, Joan correct answer: When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following would
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Ability Questions and Correct Answers
be second?
(A) Smith, Joan
(B) Smith, Joan J.