CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/2000
Question . 99
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. The concept of a ‘nation-state’ assumes a complete correspondence between the boundaries of the nation and the boundaries of those who live in a specific state.
A. Then there are members of national collectivities who live in other countries, making a mockery of the concept.
B. There are always people living in particular states who are not considered to be (and often do not consider themselves to be) members of the hegemonic nation.
C. Even worse, there are nations which never had a state or which are divided across several states.
D. This, of course has been subject to severe criticism and is virtually everywhere a fiction.
6. However, the fiction has been, and continues to be, at the basic nationalist ideologies.
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question
(a) Sentence D follows sentence number 1 as it talks about criticism of the statement given in sentence number 1. B follows it, which talks of the people living in particular states, not members of the nation state or hegemonic nation. This is followed by A and then by C, which is a culmination of the different types of states mentioned.