Locating a detail the passage states directly — history and anthropology passages

CAT has tested this idea 7 times across 6 papers, from 2017 to 2025. Solve one, and the others are the same method with different numbers or wording, which is why repeated concepts are the most efficient thing to practise.

Question	What it asks	Answer
CAT 2017 Slot 1 · VARC Q3	orientation of early maps; stated reason early chinese maps put north at the top	B
CAT 2017 Slot 1 · VARC Q5	north-up maps; what the passage actually asserts about modern northern orientation	D
CAT 2018 Slot 1 · VARC Q11	india's airbrushed second world war; what the author laments in paragraph 1	B
CAT 2021 Slot 1 · VARC Q2	review of a history of tea; why tea is unlike other 'morality' products	B
CAT 2021 Slot 2 · VARC Q10	ghar/bahir in indian nationalism; the liberal perception of indian nationalism	B
CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC Q11	facts vs interpretation in history; what the passage says archaeology does for historians	C
CAT 2025 Slot 1 · VARC Q24	nineteenth-century mental science; who the passage says an 'alienist' was	A

Part of RC · Society, History & Politics (179 questions since 2017).