Civil Service Reading Comprehension Practice Test Results

Question 1
53% answer correctly

Water polo, or Water ball, is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores the most goals.

Game play involves swimming, treading water (using a sort of kicking motion known as `eggbeater kick`), players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing the ball into a net defended by a goalie. `Man-up` (or `power play`) situations occur frequently.

Water polo, therefore, has strong similarities to the land-based game of team handball.


Which of the following is NOT a similarity between water polo and team handball?

Both sports feature the `eggbeater kick`.
Power play situations occur frequently.
Goals are scored by throwing the ball into a net defended by a goalie.
Both sports feature passing.
Question 2
73% answer correctly

The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance; helping people outside the United States to understand American culture; and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries.


Which of the following activities would NOT fit the stated goals of the Peace Corps?

Setting up a computer network for an elementary school in Taiwan.
Organizing a protest against unfair labor laws in Bangladesh.
Teaching English to local business owners in Croatia.
Organizing a foreign exchange program for an American high school.
Question 3
67% answer correctly

Conan of Aquilonia is a collection of four linked fantasy short stories written by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring Robert E. Howard`s seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

The stories were originally published in Fantastic for August 1972, July 1973, July 1974, and February, 1975. The collected stories were intended for book publication by Lancer Books, but this edition never appeared due to Lancer`s bankruptcy. The first book edition was issued in paperback by Ace Books in paperback in May 1977.


In what year was the second Conan of Aquilonia short story published?

1974
1973
1977
1972