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Para Jumble - Contemporary African Writing

CAT 2023 Slot 2 · Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension · Hard · Verbal Ability

This is a hard Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension question from the CAT 2023 Slot 2 paper. It tests Verbal Ability. The full answer key and a step-by-step explanation are below — try it yourself first, then reveal the solution.

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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.
Answer

4312

Explanation

Sentence 4 states a general premise about Western Christian views ignoring African traditions. Sentence 3 contrasts this ("However, their views contradiction reality..."). Sentence 1 introduces contemporary African literature expressing this theme, and sentence 2 elaborates on Chukwuemeka Ike's exploration in 'The Bottled Leopard'. Hence, 4312.

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