Odd Sentence Out: Bayeux Tapestry
CAT 2025 Slot 1 · Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension · Hard · VARC
This is a hard Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension question from the CAT 2025 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.
Five jumbled 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 out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
- The Bayeux tapestry was, therefore, an obvious way to tell people about the downfall of the English and the rise of the Normans.
- So if we take expert in Anglo-Saxon culture Gale Owen-Crocker's idea that the tapestry was originally hung in a square with certain scenes facing each other, people would have stood in the centre.
- Art historian Linda Neagley has argued that pre-Renaissance people interacted with art visually, kinaesthetically (sensory perception through bodily movement) and physically.
- That would make it an 11th-century immersive space with scenes corresponding and echoing each other, drawing the viewer's attention, playing on their senses and understanding of the story they thought they knew.
- The Bayeux tapestry would have been hung at eye level to enable this.
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Explanation
Sentences 3, 5, 2, and 4 form a coherent argument about how viewers physically and kinaesthetically interacted with the Bayeux tapestry hung in a square at eye level to create an immersive space. Sentence 1 focuses on the political historical narrative (downfall of English / rise of Normans), which is out of context with the spatial/interactive theme.
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