CAT 1998VARC Question 24

Logical & Chronological OrderEasy
Passage / Data

Direction: In each of the following questions, a paragraph has been split into four parts. You have to rearrange these parts to form a coherent paragraph.

A. Alex had never been happy with his Indian origins.
B. He set about rectifying this grave injustice by making his house in his own image of a country
manor.
C. Fate had been unfair to him; if he had had his wish, he would have been a count or an Earl on
some English estate, or a medieval monarch in a chateau in France.
D. This illusion of misplaced grandeur, his wife felt, would be Alex's undoing.

Answer & solution

  • A

    ACDB

  • B

    ABDC

  • ACBD

  • D

    CABD

Solution

(A) states that Alex had never been happy with his origins. (C) states what he would rather have been. (B) states what he tries to do to rectify the facts, and (D) shows his wife's reaction to his actions.

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