Ordering of Sentences MCQs

S1: A certain young man was entrusted to the care of a teacher. P: This dullard will come to grief if I send him away without a single lesson, thought the teacher. Q: He was so dull of mind that he could not, even in three months, time, learn as much as a single lesson. R: The young man came to ask the teacher’s permission to go home. S: It’s my business to provide agood education to my pupils, to get on in life. S6: The teacher asked him to wait. The Proper sequence should be:

by
A. PSRQ
B. QPSR
C. RQPS
D. SRQP
✅ The correct answer is option B.

S1: It was early 1943 and the war in the East was going disastrously. P: How this unlikely bunch of middle aged civilians accomplished their missions makes fascinating reading. Q: To stop the sinkings a spy ring had to be broken, a German ship assaulted, and a secret radio transmitter silenced. R: U-boats were torpedoing Allied ships in the Indian ocean faster than they could be replaced. S: And the only people who could do the job were a handful of British businessmen in Calcutta-all men not called out for active service. S6: Boarding party, James Leasor’s latest best-seller is a record of this tale of heroics tinged with irony and humour. The Proper sequence should be:

by
A. PRSQ
B. QSRP
C. RQSP
D. SQPR
✅ The correct answer is option C.

S1: A man handed a pair of trousers to the departmental store-clerk and said,”I’d like these altered, please”. P: He said that free alteration is not possible without a receipt. Q: The man said,”Okay, I’d like to return the trousers”. The clerk took them back and returned his money. R: The man pushed the money and said,”Now I want to buy them”. The clerk put the trousers in a bag, issued receipt and handed him both. S: The clerk asked for the sales receipt but after searching his pockets the man replied that he had lost it. S6: Triumphantly he put the trousers and the receipt on the counter and said,’I’d like to have these altered, please.” The Proper sequence should be:

by
A. PSQR
B. PSRQ
C. QRPS
D. SPQR
✅ The correct answer is option D.

S1: The press enables us to know about the world and happenings around us. P: It governs the current ideas in the country and controls the course of events. Q: There is no doubt that the newspaper is the only teacher of the common man. R: It is indeed the mouthpiece of the people. S: It is feared that in the absence of the press, government would be less responsible, the judge less honest and civil servant lees efficient. S6: While moulding it mends and mending it moulds the public opinion. The Proper sequence should be:

by
A. PQRS
B. QPSR
C. RSQP
D. SRPQ
✅ The correct answer is option A.

S1: The domestic cat is a contradiction in itself. P: But the adult pet dog also sees its human family as the dominant members of the pack. Q: Nursed in kittenhood it develops extraordinary intimacy with mankind. R: The dog, like the pet cat, sees its owners as pseudo-parents. S: At the same time, however, the cat continues to retain its independence. S6: Hence it has won such a reputation for obedience and loyalty. The Proper sequence should be:

by
A. QSPR
B. QSRP
C. SQPR
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option B.

S1: Much of our adult behaviour and our attitudes are determined by our upbringing. P: But the process does not stop here. Q: In particular by the effects of that small part of society which is our family. R: As we grow we are constantly and increasingly affected by new forces such as the social pressure of our friends and the larger world of society. S: The family and our early life have profound effect on our later life. S6: Psychologists have studied these forces in depth. The Proper sequence should be:

by
A. PRSQ
B. QSPR
C. QPSR
D. SRPQ
✅ The correct answer is option B.

S1: Silence is unnatural to man. P: Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence. Q: In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world. R: There are few things of which he stand in more fear than of the absence of noise. S: He begins with a cry and ends it in stillness. S6: He knows that ninety nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he longs to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a wax-work figure. The Proper sequence should be:

by
A. PQRS
B. PRQS
C. QPRS
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option D.

S1: We don’t see many banyan trees in our cities now-a-days. P: But in our overcrowded cities, where there is barely enough living space for people, banyan trees don’t have much of a chance. Q: These trees like to have plenty of space in which to spread themselves out. R: Of course, many parks have banyan trees. S: After all, a full grown banyan takes up as large an area as a three-storey apartment building. S6: And every village has at least one. The Proper sequence should be:

by
A. PQRS
B. QPSR
C. RSQP
D. SRPQ
✅ The correct answer is option B.

S1: There is a touching story of Professor Hardy visiting Ramanujan as he lay desperately ill in hospital at Putney. P: “No Hardy, that is not a dull number in the very least. Q: Hardy, who was a very shy man, could not find the words for his distress. R: It was 1729. S: The best he could do, as he got to the bedside was : “I say, Ramanujan, I thought the number of the taxi I came down in was a very dull number.” S6: It is the lowest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes.” The Proper sequence should be:

by
A. PRSQ
B. QSPR
C. QSRP
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option C.