CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Analogy questions

CAT/1994

Question . 26

Directions for question : From the given alternatives, select the one in which the pairs of words have a relationship similar to the one between the bold words.

PREHISTORIC : MEDIEVAL 

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Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Analogy question

Option B is correct. The relation between the two words is that of chronology, prehistory came before medieval times just as present comes before future. Even though Akbar came before British and Shakespeare before Tennyson these are people, while the given pair of words are divisions of time.