CAT 2025 Slot 3 · VARC · Question 12

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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. When I ask the distinguished LGBTQ activist and writer Cherie Moraga whether she uses Latinx to refer to herself, she tells me, 'I worked too hard for the "a" in Latina to give it up! I refer to myself as Xicana.'
  2. Of our accumulated ethnic population, only a third use Hispanic to identify themselves, a mere 14 percent use Latino, and less than 2 percent recognize Latinx.
  3. They have done this, although gender in languages is grammatical, not sociological or sexual, and found in linguistic families throughout the world, from French to Russian to Japanese.
  4. More recently, activists seeking to render our name gender neutral, out of respect for our LGBTQ members, have devised yet another name for us: Latinx.
Answer & solution

Answer: 4312

Sentence 4 is the only one that introduces the term Latinx – it ends by naming it. The other three all presuppose it, so 4 opens.

Sentence 3 follows immediately. 'They have done this' refers to the activists in 4 devising the term, and the sentence objects to the reasoning behind it: gender in languages is grammatical rather than sociological or sexual.

Sentence 1 moves from the general objection to a particular voice – Cherie Moraga refusing to give up the 'a' in Latina. It is evidence that even an LGBTQ activist resists the coinage, which is a sharper point than a general statistic.

Sentence 2 closes with the numbers: only a third use Hispanic, 14 percent Latino, less than 2 percent Latinx. Moving from one person's refusal to population-wide figures is a natural widening, and the figure for Latinx lands the paragraph's point.

The sequence is 4312.

Shortcut: a term introduced with a colon – 'yet another name for us: Latinx' – marks the sentence that defines it, which almost always comes first. From there, follow the pronouns: 'They have done this' pins 3 to 4 at once.

Hence, the answer is 4312.

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