CAT/1994

Question . 185

Directions for Question: Arrange sentences A, B, C, and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence of the six sentences.

1. I can think of no serious prose play that has survived the generation that gave it birth.

A. They are museum pieces.

B. They are revived now and then because a famous part tempts a leading actor, or a manager in want of a stop-gap thinks he will put on a play on which he has no royalties to pay.

C. A few comedies have haphazardly traveled down a couple of centuries or so.

D. The audience laughs at their wit with politeness and at their farce with embarrassment.

6. They are not held nor taken out of themselves.