Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement and a closing statement. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.

  1. Where other people found it acceptable to say that trees and cities fell or winter followed summer because gods were squabbling, some Greeks began to appeal to law. A. Even Zeus, the greatest of the gods, is subject to destiny. B. Things happened as they did because there were timeless, and unintended relationships between different and discoverable factors. C. At first that law was simply Destiny that nothing is allowed to grow too high means that everything has limit. D. But if Zeus does not or cannot, by his arbitrary choice, subvert that law, perhaps we can do without him.
  2. Other people found it easiest to defend particular stories by appeal to the chosen texts, some Greeks demanded reasons.

  1. DACB

  2. DBCA

  3. BCDA

  4. CADB
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D Correct answer
Explanation

First of all, let us try to find links in the para jumble to work out the answer. Statement 1 is a stationary statement given to us. Now, when we go through the rest of the statements, we find a mention of Zeus in two statements - A and D. So, they should occur together thereby eliminating choice (2). Also, Zeus has been introduced in statement A and then referred to in statement D. Therefore, the sequence should be A followed by D(A $ \to $ D). Keeping this in mind, we have only one answer choice i.e. (4). Moreover the word law is mentioned in the end of line 1. This is elaborated in line C. Hence only option beginning with C is option 4.

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