CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC · Question 20

CAT 2023 Slot 2 previous year question on Para Jumbles, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.

Para JumblesVerbal AbilityType in the answer (TITA)Medium

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. Contemporary African writing like ‘The Bottled Leopard’ voices this theme using two children and two backgrounds to juxtapose two varying cultures.

2. Chukwuemeka Ike explores the conflict, and casts the Western tradition as condescending, enveloping and unaccommodating towards local African practice.

3. However, their views contradict the reality, for a rich and sustaining local African cultural ethos exists for all who care, to see and experience.

4. Western Christian concepts tend to deny or feign ignorance about the existence of a genuine and enduring indigenous African tradition.

Answer & solution

Answer: 4312

Sentence 4 opens: Western Christian concepts deny or ignore indigenous African tradition.

Sentence 3 follows with 'However, their views contradict the reality' – 'their' refers to the Western concepts in 4.

Sentence 1 brings in literature: contemporary African writing like 'The Bottled Leopard' voices 'this theme' – the clash set out in 4 and 3.

Sentence 2 closes: Chukwuemeka Ike – the author of The Bottled Leopard – explores the conflict and portrays the Western tradition as condescending. The book must be introduced (sentence 1) before its author's treatment is discussed.

The sequence is 4312.

Note: some published keys give 4321. 2IIM and Cracku give 4312, which keeps the book before its author's treatment of it.

Shortcut: a sentence that names a person without introduction (Chukwuemeka Ike) usually comes after the sentence that names their work.

Hence, the answer is 4312.

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