CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/1997
Question . 140
DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS: Arrange sentences A, B, C, and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence of the six sentences.
1. Some of the maharajas, like the one at Kapurthala, had exquisite taste
A. In 1902, the Maharaja of Kapurthala gave his civil engineer photographs of the Versailles palace and asked him to replicate it, right down to the gargoyles.
B. Yeshwantrao Holkar of Indore brought in Bauhaus aesthetics and even works of modern artists like Brancusi and Duchamp.
C. Kitsch is the most polite way to describe them.
D. But many of them, as the available-light photographs show, had execrable taste.
6. Like Ali Baba’s caves, some of the palaces were like warehouses with the downright ugly next to the sublimely aesthetic.
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question
(d) Sentence number 1 is followed by A as they both refer to the Maharaja of Kapurthala. Sentence B logically follows A as it is a particular example of the exquisite taste of a Maharaja. This is followed by D and then by C in a logical sequence before linking C to sentence number 6.