Odd Sentence Out - Book Banning in the US

CAT 2023 Slot 2 · VARC · Medium · Verbal Ability

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Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

  1. The banning of Northern Lights could be considered a precursor to censoring books for "moral", world view or religious reasons.
  2. Attempts to ban books are attempts to silence authors who have summoned immense courage in telling their stories.
  3. Now the banning and challenging of books in the US has escalated to an unprecedented level.
  4. The widely acclaimed fantasy novel Northern Lights was banned in some parts of the US, and was the second most challenged book in the US.
  5. The American Library Association documented an unparalleled number of reported book challenges in 2022, about 2,500 unique titles.
Answer

2

Explanation

Sentences 4, 1, 3, and 5 focus specifically on the historical precedent set by banning Northern Lights and the current escalation of book banning in the US as documented by the ALA in 2022. Sentence 2 is a generic statement about author courage and silencing, which does not fit into this specific narrative flow.

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