Question

DIRECTIONS for questions 33 to 36: Choose the option that correctly un-scrambles the paragraphs below.

1. The same is true for less fraught examples: dispensing with 'Truth' does not mean dispensing with accuracy and attention to detail, and to suggest for example that the colonization of the New World never happened would be equally untenable.
2. To relinquish 'Truth' and the idea of one history does not lead to absolute relativism, where any version of events is taken as being equally valid as any other.
3. It does not, for example, give succour to those charlatans and ideologues who seek to deny that the Holocaust ever happened.
4. What I am suggesting here is complex, but its importance demands a careful reading.
5. The evidence for the systematic murder of more than six million people by the Nazis is overwhelming.
6. To try to argue that it never occurred is to violate the voices of the past, to suppress that evidence which goes against the twisted thesis.

• A. 2-3-5-6-1-4
• B. 5-6-1-2-4-3
• C. 4-2-3-5-6-1
• D. 2-4-5-3-6-1

Hint:

Find the sentence stating the main claim first, then follow the back-referencing words like "It" and "The same is true" to chain the rest.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Instead of building the chain from the front, it helps to work backward from the sentence that most clearly closes the paragraph and check which sentence must come right before it.

1. Sentence 4: "What I am suggesting here is complex, but its importance demands a careful reading." This reads like a closing comment on an argument that has already been laid out with examples, so it belongs at the end, not the start.
2. Sentence 1: "The same is true for less fraught examples..." This line only makes sense once one example has already been discussed in detail, since it is introducing a second, easier example. It must come right before sentence 4 and right after a full first example.
3. Sentences 3, 5, 6: These three build the first example step by step: sentence 3 raises Holocaust denial, sentence 5 gives the supporting evidence, and sentence 6 explains why denying that evidence is wrong. They must run in the order 3-5-6.
4. Sentence 2: "To relinquish 'Truth'... does not lead to absolute relativism..." This is the general claim that sentence 3 explains with "It does not, for example...", so sentence 2 must come immediately before sentence 3.

Chaining these blocks together: sentence 2 states the claim, sentence 3 begins the Holocaust example, sentence 5 and sentence 6 complete it, sentence 1 widens the point to a second example, and sentence 4 closes the paragraph. This gives the same order, 2-3-5-6-1-4.

Let's summarize:

• A general claim sentence, here sentence 2, almost always opens a paragraph that then supports it with examples.
• Phrases like "The same is true" always need a first example already stated before them.
• A sentence that reflects on the whole argument, like sentence 4, usually closes the paragraph.

The correct order is 2-3-5-6-1-4, option 1.