Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. An Indian professor (Amartya Sen, now settled in the USA and working in Harvard University) in a prestigious JRD Tata Memorial lecture in Delhi, in August 1995, on “Population Stabilization Programme” favoured 'cooperation' approach and denounced the use of coercion to bring down the lines of two famous theories of Condorcet (of France) and Malthus (of Britain).
B. Condorcet believed that female education would lead people to choose voluntarily smaller families and lower fertility rates. C. An important question has been raised now by some thinkers pertaining to population policy - that of cooperation vs coercion, or incentives vs disincentives, or Kerala model vs Chinese model. D. There are some thinkers who support cooperation while there are others who support coercion. E. He supported Condorcet's approach to the problem of population which talked of the emergence of new norms of small family size based on 'the progress of reason'.

  1. CADBE

  2. ADBEC

  3. CDAEB

  4. BAECD
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C Correct answer
Explanation

As the thought of this para jumble is expressed in C, therefore C initiates the sequence. This narrows down our approach to 2 options either (A) or (B). 'He' in E refers to 'Indian professor' in A, thus, we have AE link. Statement B explains the Condorcet's view, thus, it follows AE. Hence, (3) is the answer.

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