Berkeley Forum Recruitment Fall 2014 Berkeley Forum Recruitment PRACTICE TEST Important Information This is a closed-book written activity that should take no more than 20 minutes. If you are unable to answer a question, move on. Applicants are not expected to answer all questions correctly. NAME Page 1 ! of !9 Joe 1 /12 2 /20 3 /12 4 /20 5 /16 TOTAL /80 Berkeley Forum Recruitment Fall 2014 Exercise 1. (4 minutes) For each of the following, identify all errors. You may choose to explain why there is an error or simply provide a correction instead. If a sentence has no errors, mark “No Error.” 1. A female alumni of the Berkeley Forum was the latest recipient of the Golden Bear Prize. alumna 2. I joined a union while completing an MBA. No Error 3. The Senator and me discussed healthcare policy. I 4. One of the Forum’s members only wants to eat ice cream, which is made to order using a rapid freezing liquid nitrogen cycle. that passersby 5. The passerby were in a state of anxiety; just a few hours ago, there had been a violent attack on that very street. Also accepted: “passerby was” have 6. It’s easy to say that he should of in hindsight, when almost everyone was initially opposed to him taking any action whatsoever. protesting 7. The university’s student body was advocating against the university’s proposed policy to ban soda dispensers on campus. You “advocate for” and “protest against” a cause. 8. If re-elected, Obama’s main obstacle will be Republican obstructionism. Dangling modifier: Obama, not the obstacle, is re-elected 9. It doesn't matter whom we invite because no one will be coming anyways. “anyways” is not a word fewer 10. There were less civilian casualties in 2007 than there were three years prior. 11. While organizational culture at the company is still very strong, no one will deny that the atmosphere at the company is nothing like the old days. that in 12. The Berkeley Forum is a very unique organization; it is the only student-run forum at the University of California, Berkeley. Something unique is one of a kind. There is no such thing as very “one of a kind.” Page 2 ! of !9 Berkeley Forum Recruitment Fall 2014 Exercise 2. (4 minutes) Complete the following analogies. Write your answers directly on the provided lines. Only one answer will be accepted for each of the following problems. BERKELEY 1. HARVARD : CAMBRIDGE :: BERKELEY : ____________________________________ DIANNE FEINSTEIN 2. BARBARA BOXER : JUNIOR :: ____________________________________ : SENIOR BUSINESS 3. LSAT : LAW :: GMAT : ____________________________________ 0 4. -273 : ____________________________________ :: C : K NYT 5. MURDOCH : WSJ :: SCHULZENBERG : ____________________________________ BURMA 6. MYANMAR : ____________________________________ :: UNITED KINGDOM : BRITAIN 3 7. 2 : ____________________________________ :: 31 : 37 SPAIN 8. DALI : ____________________________________ :: VAN GOGH : NETHERLANDS TWAIN 9. CLEMENS : ____________________________________ :: GALBRAITH : ROWLING ANDROID 10. APPLE : GOOGLE :: iOS : ____________________________________ RESIDENCY 11. CLERKSHIP : ____________________________________ :: JUDGE : PHYSICIAN SUGAR 12. SALT : HYPERTENSION :: ____________________________________ : DIABETES BUSH 13. WASHINGTON : ADAMS :: ____________________________________ : CLINTON MICROSOFT 14. TSLA : TESLA :: MFST : ____________________________________ (5,7,11) 15. (2,3,5) : 10 :: ____________________________________ : 23 ATHEIST 16. ____________________________________ : BELIEF :: INDIGENT : MONEY EVEREST 17. KILIMANJARO : ____________________________________ :: AFRICA : ASIA CHICAGO 18. LOS ANGELES : CALIFORNIA :: ____________________________________ : ILLINOIS WALMART 19. ____________________________________ : BENTONVILLE :: VERIZON : NEW YORK EDUCATION 20. REICH : LABOR :: DUNCAN : ____________________________________ Page 3 ! of !9 Berkeley Forum Recruitment Fall 2014 Exercise 3. (2 minutes) Each of the following words is improperly spelled. Provide the proper spelling below each word. Only one answer will be accepted for each. questionaire questionnaire Pitsbourgh sacrilegous sacrilegious acquiese acquiesce pyrhic pyrrhic diletante absense Pittsburgh goverment government dilettante absence auxilary auxiliary feasability feasibility memonic mnemonic malestrom maelstrom Page 4 ! of !9 Berkeley Forum Recruitment Fall 2014 Exercise 4. (5 minutes) For each of the following terms or definitions, identify the most logical answer. 1. Michelle Obama, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor went to school here (A) Harvard (B) Princeton (C) Occidental (D) Perdue 2. Suspended for anti-gay remarks, then re-instated (A) Paula Deen (B) Phil Robertson (C) Alec Baldwin (D) Jesse Jackson 3. Fraudulently labelled by European meat companies as beef (A) Lamb (B) Horse (C) Pork (D) Whale 4. Sat in the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art for 736 hours (A) Bruce Nauman (B) Valie Export (C) Marina Abramovic (D) Gina Pane 5. TIME Person of the Year (A) Miley Cyrus (B) Edward Snowden (C) Vladimir Putin (D) Pope Francis 6. Carlos Danger (A) Anthony Weiner (B) Charles Schumer (C) Rob Ford (D) Mark Zuckerberg 7. Eponymous album released December 13, 2013 with little fanfare (A) Beyoncé (B) Rihanna (C) Knowles (D) 5 8. What did PFC Manning ask to be called? (A) Brad (B) Chelsea (C) Brian (D) Susan (B) Anthony Weiner (C) Eliot Spitzer (D) Eric Holder (B) DHS (C) HHS (D) DOE 9. Admitted to smoking crack cocaine (A) Rob Ford 10. Kathleen Sebelius (A) DOI 11. Became the first probe to exit the solar system (A) Voyager 1 (B) New Horizons (C) Curiosity (D) Galileo (C) U.S. government (D) Vatican (C) Operating system (D) Scientific unit 12. Closed for 16 days in October 2013 (A) Chick-fil-A (B) Target 13. BTC (A) Digital currency (B) Sansung phone 14. Security breach of around 40 million credit and debit cards (A) Apple Page 5 ! of !9 (B) Walmart (C) T.J. Maxx (D) Target Berkeley Forum Recruitment Fall 2014 15.Location of Westgate shopping mall attack (A) Cairo (B) Nairobi (C) Cape Town (D) Harare (B) 17 (C) 47 (D) 87 (B) Ecuador (C) Dominican Republic (D) Brazil 16.Four score and seven (A) 11 17. Pope Francis (A) Argentina 18. Drank water after the State of the Union address (A) Ted Cruz (B) Marco Rubio (C) Anthony Kennedy (D) Michelle Obama 19.Turned down $3 billion acquisition offer (A) Snapchat (B) Instagram (C) SolarCity (D) Solyndra 20.Read Dr. Seuss and quoted Duck Dynasty in 21-hour filibuster (A) Ted Cruz Page 6 ! of !9 (B) Marco Rubio (C) Wendy Davis (D) John Boehner Berkeley Forum Recruitment Fall 2014 Exercise 5. (5 minutes) For each of the following questions, identify the correct answer. 1. Which of the following literary prizes was, until recently, awarded to the best original fulllength novel, written in the English language by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Republic of Ireland, or Zimbabwe? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Man Booker Prize John Newberry Medal Pulitzer Prize Hugo Award National Book Award
2. How tall is One World Trade Center, and what is the postal code of the state where you would find the highest mountain in the US? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 1,660 ft, NY 1,776 ft, AK 1,788 ft, AL 1,822 ft, AL 1,960 ft, CA 3. Which religion has the second-greatest number of adherents? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Buddhism Islam Hinduism Christianity Judaism 4. What’s special about the phone number (510)-555-2412? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) It’s the office phone number of the Berkeley Forum It’s divisible by 7 It was the first 10-digit phone number, tested at Bell Labs in 1961 It’s the central hotline for the University of California, Berkeley It’s not a real phone number 5. Where will the 2016, 2018, and 2020 Olympics be held, respectively? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Madrid, Munich, Tokyo Rio de Janeiro, Pyeongchang, Tokyo Rio de Janeiro, Nagano, Istanbul Rio de Janeiro, Oslo, Seoul Madrid, Pyeongchang, Istanbul 6. Which of the following political controversies did not occur during the Obama presidency? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) The Department of Justice’s subpoenaing of Associated Press phone records ATF gun-walking operation “Fast and Furious” IRS targeting of political groups based on their names or political themes The DOE’s approval of a loan to a now failed solar start-up The unprecedented midterm dismissal of U.S. attorneys Page 7 ! of !9 Berkeley Forum Recruitment Fall 2014 7. Which of the following prizes is awarded for excellence in live Broadway theatre? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Emmy Award The Oscars Academy Award Tony Award Grammy Award 8. How many Google searches were performed on an average day in 2012? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 51,340,000 513,400,000 1,340,000,000 5,134,000,000 13,400,000,000 9. Estimate the passenger count for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 3 million 11 million 24 million 71 million 125 million 10. Which of the following countries has a negative population growth rate? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) France Japan Oman United Arab Emirates United States 11. Identify the place (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Dharavi slum, Mumbai Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong Rocinha favela, Rio de Janeiro Tondo District, Manila, Philippines Tin Shui Wai New Town, Hong Kong 12. Identify the place (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Beijing London New York Seoul Tokyo 13. Identify the place (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Panthéon, Paris Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, New York New York City Hall New York Stock Exchange Page 8 ! of !9 Berkeley Forum Recruitment 14. Identify the place (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Abu Dhabi Bora Bora Dubai Miami Honolulu 15. Identify the place (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Burj Khalifa, Dubai Bank of China Building, Hong Kong One Raffles Place, Singapore Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur Taipei 101, Taipei 16. Identify the place (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Brooklyn Bridge Milau Bridge Rialto Bridge Sydney Harbour Bridge Tower Bridge Page 9 ! of !9 Fall 2014