Question

Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer:

• A. For feminists, the question of how we read is inextricably linked with the question of what we read.
• B. Elaine Showalter’s critique of the literary curriculum is exemplary of this work.
• C. Androcentric literature structures the reading experience differently depending on the gender of the reader.
• D. The documentation of this realization was one of the earliest tasks undertaken by feminist critics.
• E. More specifically, the feminist inquiry into the activity of reading begins with the realization that the literary canon is androcentric, and that this has a profoundly damaging effect on women readers.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Approach: Track the pronoun and demonstrative references; a coherent paragraph is a relay of 'this realization' / 'this work', and the sentence that owns no baton is the intruder.

The relay: 1 plants the theme (how we read is bound to what we read). 5, flagged 'More specifically', delivers the key realization — the canon is androcentric and harms women readers. 4 then refers to 'this realization' and calls its documentation an early feminist task. 2 calls Showalter's critique 'exemplary of this work', i.e. that documentation. So 1→5→4→2 passes the baton cleanly at every handoff.

The intruder: Sentence 3 contains no back-reference and is referred to by nothing. Its assertion — androcentric texts shape reading differently by gender — is a standalone analytical point that breaks the documentation narrative. Drop it and the paragraph stays seamless.

Therefore the odd sentence is 3 (option C).