Para Jumbles - Whittaker Chambers
CAT 1996 Slot 1 · Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension · Hard · VARC
This is a hard Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension question from the CAT 1996 Slot 1 paper. It tests VARC. The full answer key and a step-by-step explanation are below — try it yourself first, then reveal the solution.
- Hiss was serving as Head of the Endowment on August 3, 1948, when Whittaker Chambers reluctantly appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee. A. Chambers, a portly rumpled man with a melodramatic style, had been a Communist courier but had broken with the party in 1938. B. When Nixon arranged a meeting of the two men in New York, Chambers repeated his charges and Hiss his denials. C. Summoned as a witness, Hiss denied that he had ever been a Communist or had known Chambers. D. He told the Committee that among the members of a secret Communist cell in Washington during the 1930s was Hiss.
- Then, bizarrely, Hiss asked Chambers to open his mouth.
- A.
CBAD
- B.
ADBC
- C.
ADCB
- D.
ACDB
Answer
C
Explanation
A tells us who Chambers was, D states why he had appeared before the Committee, C states Hiss' reaction to charges against him. B states that Nixon arranged a meeting between the two, and 6 continues with what happened at the meeting.
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