Multiple choice

Directions: In the following questions each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence and choose the option.

S1. Adaptations based on traditional folklore provide a source of popular culture. P. But the public has its own tastes and it may not embrace every cultural item sold. Q. This early layer of cultural mainstream still persists today, in a form separate from mass-produced popular culture, propagating by word of mouth rather than via mass media. R. With the widespread use of the Internet from the 1990s, the distinction between mass media and word-of-mouth has become blurred. S. The folkloric element of popular culture engages heavily with the commercial element. S6. Moreover, beliefs and opinions about the products of commercial culture spread by word-of-mouth, and become modified in the process in the same manner that folklore evolves.

  1. PQSR

  2. QRSP

  3. RSPQ

  4. SRPQ

  5. QPSR

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B Correct answer
Explanation

The first sentence of the passage introduces the topic as source of popular culture. The first sentence Q given in this sequence follows this subject and evaluates how this pattern of adaptation to popular culture still persists today despite the many new forms of propogating culture through mass media etc.. Sentence R logically follows with the mention of the most popular tool of mass media, the internet. Sentence S is a statement and is logical precursor of statement P which has the adversative conjunction but which highlights its contrast to the first statement. This brings us to the last S 6 that closes the passage with summing and concluding the previous two statements.