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. Conceiving, thinking, the mental intercourse of men at this stage still appear as the direct efflux of their material behaviour.

B. Men are the producers of their conceptions, ideas, etc. that is, real, active men, as they are conditioned by a definite development of their productive forces and of the intercourse corresponding to these, up to its furthest forms.

C. Consciousness can never be anything else than conscious being, and the being of men is their actual life-process.

D. The same applies to mental production as expressed in the language of the politics, laws, morality, religion, metaphysics, etc., of a people.

E. The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men - the language of real life.

  1. CABDE

  2. ABCDE

  3. CDEBA

  4. EADBC
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D Correct answer
Explanation

As statement E expresses the thought of this para jumble, hence, it begins the sequence. A provides an explanation to E, thus, we have EA link. 'The same' in D is the reference to statement B, hence, D follows A. B logically follows D as it draws the conclusion. Hence, (4) is the answer.

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