PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

JUMBLED SENTENCES

PREPARATORY SET-51 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): Given below are six statements (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F), which when arranged in the correct order, form a coherent and meaningful paragraph. The sentence marked as B is fixed and would fit in the second position. Rearrange the other statements in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, and then answer the questions below.

(A) There’s something called “nocturnal forgiveness”, which is the act of letting go of all wrongs and all guilt or blame, just for the duration of the night. You leave them outside the room.

(B) The sunsets in France, a roaring red horizon and the hazy moon above, like a moth smoked out of a fire; Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all visible at once. Bats pouring out of the ruined tower of the medieval chateau, swooping above our heads and pouring in again.

(C) The sky in France – so vast, so black, so star-spangled that when we got out of the car our gazes were pulled up to it, both of us at once, and we stood silently gaping. The Milky Way was a wide, distinct bow exed above us and the stars – staggering in their numbers – did in fact twinkle.

(D) I forgive everything I can think of one by one – the cars driving past too fast, the jackdaws for ransacking the bird feeder, the universe for torturing me, myself for torturing me. What I suddenly think of is my dad plaiting my hair when I was nine years old, in the first few weeks after my mum left. Plaiting my hair with his huge, scarred, leathery builder’s hands.

(E) I think about the swimming, going up and down the pool. My underwater slipstream, my hands ageless and bright. Count your blessings.

(F)  The fading call of crickets. My swimming costume hanging on the balcony railings going loose with chlorine and overuse, loose with two months of swimming.

Question No : 1

Which of the following will be LAST sentence after rearrangement?

(1) D   

(2) A   

(3) F    

(4) E    

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

Which of the following pairs form two consecutive statements after rearrangement?

(1) (A)-(D)      

(2) (B)-(C)       

(3) (A)-(E)       

(4) (C)-(D)      

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

Which of the following will be FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

(1) D   

(2) C   

(3) B    

(4) A   

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

Which of the following will be FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?

(1) D   

(2) C   

(3) B    

(4) A   

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

Which of the following will be FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?

(1) D   

(2) E    

(3) F    

(4) A   

(5) None of these