CAT 2017 Slot 2 — VARC Question 28
Answer the following questions based on the information given below.
Despite their fierce reputation, Vikings may not have always been the plunderers and pillagers popular culture imagines them to be. In fact, they got their start trading in northern European markets, researchers suggest.
Combs carved from animal antlers, as well as comb manufacturing waste and raw antler material has turned up at three archaeological sites in Denmark, including a medieval marketplace in the city of Ribe. A team of researchers from Denmark and U.K.hoped to identify the species of animal to which the antlers once belonged by analyzing collagen proteins in the samples and comparing them across the animal kingdom, Laura Geggel reports for liveScience.
Somewhat surprisingly, molecular analysis of the artifacts revealed that some combs and other material had been carved from reindeer antlers…. Given that reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) don’t live in Denmark, the researchers posit that it arrived on Viking ships from Norway. Antler craftsmanship, in the form of decorative combs, was part of Viking culture. Such combs served as symbols of good health, Geggel writes. The fact that the animals shed their antlers also made them easy to collect from the large herds that inhabited Norway.
Since the artifacts were found in marketplace areas at each site it’s more likely that the Norsemen came to trade rather than pillage. Most of the artifacts also date to the 780s, but some are as old as 725. That predates the beginning of Viking raids on great Britain by about 70 years. (Traditionally, the so-called “Viking Age” began with these raids in 793 and ended with Norman conquest of Great Britain in 1066.) Archaeologists had suspected that the Viking had experience with ling maritime voyages [that] might have preceded their raiding days. Beyond Norway, these combs would have been a popular industry in Scandinavia as well. It’s possible that the antler comb’s represent a larger trade network, where the Norsemen supplied raw material to craftsmen in Denmark and elsewhere.
The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, from a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
- The implications of retelling of Indian stories, hence takes on new meaning in a modern India.
- The stories we tell reflect the world around us.
- We cannot help but retell the stories that we value -after all, they are never quite right for us-in our time.
- And even if we manage to get them quite right, they are only right for us-other people living around us will have different reasons for telling similar stories.
- As soon as we capture a story, the world we were trying to capture has changed.
Answer & solution
Answer: 25341
Among the given options, 2 is clearly the starter sentence as it gives the broad subject that each of the other sentences refers to - stories. 5 follows 2 as it takes the subject of stories to the next point which is that changes happen after a story is created.
Choosing between the remaining sentences, we see that 3 follows 2,5 as 3 mentions how the changes in the world, mentioned in sentence 5, relates to retelling stories that do not seem right, “for our time”.
Sentence 4 clearly follows 2, 5, 3 as it continues where 3 left off and goes on to “even if we manage to get them quite right”.
Sentence 1 concludes the thread of the previous sentences and serves neatly as the last sentence in the para-jumble.
Hence, the correct answer is 25341.