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CIVIL SERVICE EXAM: PRACTICE TEST
1: CLERICAL ABILITY QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS
(D) emotion - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the
following would be second?
(A) flag
(B) house
(C) decade
(D) emotion
(D) neutron - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the
following would be fourth?
(A) microphone
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(B) neutral
(C) lithograph
(D) neutron
(B) earnest - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the
following would be third?
(A) excitement
(B) earnest
(C) early
(D) earn
(A) catalog - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following
would be second?
(A) catalog
(B) catch
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(C) carbon
(D) curb
(A) element - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the
following would be third?
(A) element
(B) elephant
(C) box
(D) department
(A) carton - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following
would be third?
(A) carton
(B) cartographer
(C) cart
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(D) cartoon
(D) omniscient - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the
following would be second?
(A) polarize
(B) omnipotent
(C) polygraph
(D) omniscient
(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
CIVIL SERVICE EXAM: PRACTICE TEST
1: CLERICAL ABILITY QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS
(D) emotion - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the
following would be second?
(A) flag
(B) house
(C) decade
(D) emotion
(D) neutron - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the
following would be fourth?
(A) microphone
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(B) neutral
(C) lithograph
(D) neutron
(B) earnest - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the
following would be third?
(A) excitement
(B) earnest
(C) early
(D) earn
(A) catalog - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following
would be second?
(A) catalog
(B) catch
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(C) carbon
(D) curb
(A) element - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the
following would be third?
(A) element
(B) elephant
(C) box
(D) department
(A) carton - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the following
would be third?
(A) carton
(B) cartographer
(C) cart
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(D) cartoon
(D) omniscient - correct-answer - When alphabetizing correctly, which of the
following would be second?
(A) polarize
(B) omnipotent
(C) polygraph
(D) omniscient
(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