CAT 1999 — VARC Question 15
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.
The unseasonable man tends to
Answer & solution
bring a higher bidder to a salesman who has just closed a deal.
- B
disclose confidential information to others.
- C
sing the praises of the bride when he goes to a wedding.
- D
sleep late and rise early.
(a) is the correct answer choice.
It is also an example of doing the right thing, ‘at the wrong time.’
In (a), getting a higher bidder is helpful to the salesman, but not when he has just closed a deal. He will only curse himself and you. (d) is a matter of choice, not unseasonableness. (b) may be undesirable, but not unseasonable. There is nothing unseasonable about (c) either.