NinetynineCAT 2023 Slot 2 VARC Q21 Para Jumbles
Question 21 of the Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) section, CAT 2023 Slot 2, with CAT's official answer and a worked solution.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
1. Contemporary African writing like 'The Bottled Leopard' voices this theme using two children and two backgrounds to juxtapose two varying cultures.
2. Chukwuemeka Ike explores the conflict, and casts the Western tradition as condescending, enveloping and unaccommodating towards local African practice.
3. However, their views contradict the reality, for a rich and sustaining local African cultural ethos exists for all who care, to see and experience.
4. Western Christian concepts tend to deny or feign ignorance about the existence of a genuine and enduring indigenous African tradition.
1. Contemporary African writing like 'The Bottled Leopard' voices this theme using two children and two backgrounds to juxtapose two varying cultures.
2. Chukwuemeka Ike explores the conflict, and casts the Western tradition as condescending, enveloping and unaccommodating towards local African practice.
3. However, their views contradict the reality, for a rich and sustaining local African cultural ethos exists for all who care, to see and experience.
4. Western Christian concepts tend to deny or feign ignorance about the existence of a genuine and enduring indigenous African tradition.
TITA: type in the answer. There are no options and no negative marking.
Answer: 4312 Para Jumbles TITA
Solution
- 4 opens with the claim: Western Christian concepts deny an indigenous African tradition.
- 3 rebuts it: \"However, their views contradict the reality\", where \"their\" refers to the Western concepts of 4.
- 1 introduces contemporary writing like The Bottled Leopard that \"voices this theme\", and 2 names its author, Chukwuemeka Ike, and how he explores the conflict.