CAT 2023 Slot 2 — VARC Question 22
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.
âââââââ1. Contemporary African writing like ‘The Bottled Leopard’ voices this theme using two children and two backgrounds to juxtapose two varying cultures.
2. Chukwuemeka Ike explores the conflict, and casts the Western tradition as condescending, enveloping and unaccommodating towards local African practice.
3. However, their views contradict the reality, for a rich and sustaining local African cultural ethos exists for all who care, to see and experience.
4. Western Christian concepts tend to deny or feign ignorance about the existence of a genuine and enduring indigenous African tradition.
Answer & solution
Answer: 4321
Easy
Locate the general opening claim, then use the contrast word "However" and the narrowing from idea → author → specific novel to order the four sentences.
4 is the broad opening thesis: "Western Christian concepts tend to deny... the existence of a genuine indigenous African tradition." It sets up the conflict the rest develops.
3 begins "However, their views contradict the reality, for a rich... local African cultural ethos exists." "their views" points straight back to the Western concepts in 4, and "However" rebuts them. So 4→3.
2 introduces an author who treats this clash: "Chukwuemeka Ike explores the conflict, and casts the Western tradition as condescending..." — moving from the abstract conflict to how a writer handles it. So 3→2.
1 narrows further to a specific work: "Contemporary African writing like 'The Bottled Leopard' voices this theme..." — a concrete example closing the paragraph. Sequence: 4-3-2-1.
The correct sequence is 4321.