CDS 2024 · PYQ · Ordering of Sentences / Para-Jumbles · hard
S1: One of the features of humanist culture in Italy was a slackening of the control of religion over human life. S6: There was also a concern at this time with good manners. P: Though they were not irreligious, Italians were strongly attracted to material wealth, power and glory. Q: He wrote a pamphlet defending acquisition of wealth as a virtue. R: In On Pleasure, Lorenzo Valla, another humanist, criticised the Christian injunction against pleasure. S: Francesco Barbaro was a humanist from Venice.
A.QRSP
B.QPSR
C.PSQR✓ Correct
D.RSPQ
Explanation
After S1 about slackening of religious control, P logically follows describing Italians' attraction to material wealth despite not being irreligious. S then introduces Francesco Barbaro as a humanist from Venice. Q follows mentioning he wrote a pamphlet defending wealth acquisition. R then introduces another humanist, Lorenzo Valla, and his work 'On Pleasure', leading to S6 about concern with good manners. Hence, P-S-Q-R is the correct sequence, corresponding to option (c) PSQR.
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