Question

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) The effigy of a candidate establishes a personal link between him and the voters; the candidate does not only offer a programme for judgement, he suggests a physical climate, a set of daily choices expressed in a morphology, a way of dressing, a posture. 
(2) Some candidates for Parliament adorn their electoral prospectus with a portrait; this presupposes that photography has a power to convert which must be analysed.
(3) Inasmuch as photography is an ellipse of language and a condensation of an ‘ineffable’ social whole, it constitutes an anti-intellectual weapon and tends to spirit away ‘politics’ (that is to say a body of problems and solutions) to the advantage of a ‘manner of being’, a socio-moral status.
(4) Photography tends to restore the paternalistic nature of elections, whose elitist essence has been disrupted by proportional representation and the rule of parties (The Right seems to use it more than the Left). 

• A. 1432
• B. 2143
• C. 1243
• D. 4312

Hint:

Sequencing sentences logically allows the ideas to flow, connecting related concepts and providing a coherent argument.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Approach: Order by ladder of abstraction. Campaign para-jumbles often climb from a concrete observation up to a theoretical claim. Rank the sentences from most concrete to most abstract and read off the order.

Rank each rung: Sentence 2 is the most concrete and also self-announcing - a plain fact (candidates use portraits) plus 'must be analysed', the classic topic-sentence move. Sentence 1 is next - it describes the felt effect on voters (a personal link, a posture, a way of dressing): still concrete, about the individual candidate. Sentence 4 climbs to the institutional level - photography restoring the 'paternalistic', 'elitist' character of elections against proportional representation. Sentence 3 is the most abstract - photography as an 'anti-intellectual weapon' that replaces 'politics' with a 'manner of being'.

Assemble bottom-up: announcement $\to$ individual effect $\to$ institutional effect $\to$ philosophical verdict gives $2 \to 1 \to 4 \to 3$. The opener test confirms it: only Sentence 2 reads as an introduction, while Sentence 3's sweeping judgement reads as a closing line.

The abstraction ladder lands on 2143.

Answer: 2143.