XAT 2014 — VARC Question 7
Read the definitions below and select the best match between the numbered sentences and the definitions.
Premise: A proposition from which another statement is inferred or follows a conclusion.
Assumption: Something, which is accepted as true.
Facts: Something, which can be checked.
Reason: A cause, explanation or justification for an action or event.
Conclusion: An end, finish or summarization of process or argument.
Proposition: A statement that expresses judgment or opinion.
Question: A sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit opinion.
Inductive inference: An end, finish or summarization reached for “the whole”, based on “a particular” real incidence.
Deductive Inference: An end, finish or summarization reached based on the combining and recombining two or more than two assumptions.
Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.
Choose the best option:
- Shakespeare did not personally prepare his plays for publication, and no official collection of them appeared until after his death.
- Some were probably based on actors’ memories of plays.
- Many of these quartos are quite unreliable.
- A collection of his sonnets, considered by critics to be among the best ever written in English, appeared in 1609.
- Many individual plays were published during his lifetime in unauthorized editions known as quartos.
Answer & solution
- A
1, 2, 3, 5, 4
- B
1, 2, 4, 5, 3
- C
3, 1, 4, 5, 2
- D
3, 5, 1, 2, 4
1, 4, 5, 3, 2
Statement 1 introduces the topic of discussion, which pertains to Shakespeare not writing his plays for publication and how they came to light post his death. “These quartos” in statement 3 needs reference and does not make for a good introductory statement. This eliminates options 3 and 4.
“Some...” in statement 2 refers to the “quartos” in statement 3. Hence, it cannot follow statement 1. This eliminates options 1 and 2.
Thus, the correct order of statements is 1, 4, 5, 3, 2.
Hence, the correct answer is option 5.