CAT 1999 — VARC Question 14
Directions: For each of the two questions, indicate which of the statements given with that particular question is consistent with the description of the unseasonable man in the passage below.
Unseasonableness is a tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. The unseasonable man is the sort of person who comes to confide in you when you are busy. He serenades his beloved when she is ill. He asks a man who has just lost money by paying a bill for a friend to pay a bill for him. He invites a friend to go for a ride just after the friend has finished a long car trip. He is eager to offer services which are not wanted, but which cannot be politely refused. If he is present at an arbitration, he stirs up dissension between the two parties, who were really anxious to agree. Such is the unseasonable man.
He tends to
Answer & solution
- A
entertain women.
- B
be a successful arbitrator when dissenting parties are anxious to agree.
- C
be helpful when solicited.
tell a long story to people who have heard it many times before.
(d) is the correct answer choice.
It is an example of doing the right thing, ‘at the wrong time.’
In (d), telling a long story could be entertaining or interesting, but not when others have heard it many times before. The intention in (b) and (c) contradicts the definition of an unseasonable man. (a) is irrelevant.