Question

Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

• A. The Bayeux tapestry was, therefore, an obvious way to tell people about the downfall of the English and the rise of the Normans.
• B. So if we take expert in Anglo-Saxon culture Gale Owen-Crocker’s idea that the tapestry was originally hung in a square with certain scenes facing each other, people would have stood in the centre.
• C. Art historian Linda Neagley has argued that pre-Renaissance people interacted with art visually, kinaesthetically (sensory perception through bodily movement) and physically.
• D. That would make it an 11th-century immersive space with scenes corresponding and echoing each other, drawing the viewer’s attention, playing on their senses and understanding of the story they thought they knew.
• E. The Bayeux tapestry would have been hung at eye level to enable this.

Hint:

For “odd sentence out” questions, first build the strongest possible mini-paragraph with four sentences; the one that doesn’t fit that structure—by topic or logical flow—is your answer.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Approach: Sort the five sentences by theme into two buckets. The bucket with four sentences is the paragraph; the lone sentence in the other bucket is the odd one out.

Step 1: Read for subject matter. Sentence 3 (people interacted with art physically), Sentence 5 (hung at eye level to enable this), Sentence 2 (hung in a square, viewers in the centre), and Sentence 4 (an immersive space playing on the senses) all describe the same theme, the physical, sensory experience of viewing the tapestry. Sentence 1 talks about something else entirely, the tapestry as a tool to broadcast the downfall of the English and the rise of the Normans, that is, its political or propaganda purpose.

Step 2: Four versus one. The experience bucket holds 3, 5, 2, 4; the propaganda bucket holds only 1.

Step 3: Confirm with connectors, the experience four link cleanly through this, So if, and That would make it, while Sentence 1's therefore has no cause to attach to in that chain. Both theme and logic isolate the same sentence.

Answer: Sentence 1.