ParaJumble Sentences – 17

Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E) to make a meaningful paragraph and then answer the question that follows.

(A) He was familiar with Hesiod’s Theogony, a poetic treatment of the origin of the gods and the cosmos, and he knew something of the beliefs of the barbarians.
(B) But for the opinions of mankind he had little, if any, respect.
(C) Xenophanes knew perfectly well that “mortal men believe that gods are begotten, and that they have the dress, voice, and body of mortals.”
(D) “If oxen, horses, or lions had hands with which to sketch and fashion works of art as men do,” he remarked, “then horses would draw the forms of god like horses, oxen like oxen, and they would each make their god’s bodies similar in frame to the bodies that they themselves possess.”
(E) Indeed, he observed, “the Ethiopians claim that their gods are snub-nosed and black; the Thracians, that theirs are blue-eyed and red-headed.”

Q1. Which of the following should be the First sentence of the given paragraph?
(a)E
(b)D
(c)C
(d)B
(e)A

Q2. Which of the following should be the Third sentence of the given paragraph?
(a)A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
(e)E

Q3. Which of the following should be the Fifth sentence of the given paragraph?
(a)A
(b)C
(c)B
(d)D
(e)E

Q4. Which of the following should be the Fourth sentence of the given paragraph?
(a)A
(b)C
(c)B
(d)E
(e)D

Q5. Which of the following should be the Second sentence of the given paragraph?
(a)B
(b)D
(c)A
(d)C
(e)E

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