1) ‘Testator’ is a man who made a will. A woman who made a will is ----.
A) testatric
B) testatrix
C) testatoress
D) testatrine
The traditional feminine form of many Latin-derived agent nouns ending in -tor is -trix (e.g., executor → executrix, aviator → aviatrix).
testatric and testatrine are not recognized forms, and testatoress uses the English -ess suffix improperly for this Latin root.
Ans) B) testatrix
2) Identify the name of the capital of a country from the following clues.
It is the capital of a South American country.
The name of the capital is the same as the main character of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
The protagonist of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist also has the same name.
A) Stanley
B) Willemstad
C) Lima
D) Santiago
The hero of The Old Man and the Sea is Santiago, and the shepherd protagonist of The Alchemist is also Santiago.
Santiago is the capital of Chile, a South American country.
Stanley (Falkland Islands) and Willemstad (Curaçao) aren’t capitals of South American countries.
Ans) D) Santiago
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