Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Comprehension - (Narrative / Factual)

Question:

Read the following passage and answer the next five questions by choosing the correct options:

When a subject was accused of a crime of sufficient importance to interest the king, a public notice was given that on an appointed day the fate of the accused person would be decided in the king's arena, a structure which well deserved its name, for, although its form and plan were borrowed from afar, its purpose emanated solely from the brain of this man.

When, all the people had assembled in the galleries, and the king, surrounded by his court, sat high up on his throne of royal state on one side of the arena, he gave a signal, a door beneath him opened, and the accused subject stepped out into the amphitheater. Directly opposite him, on the other side of the enclosed space, were two doors, exactly alike and side by side. It was the duty and the privilege of the person on trial to walk directly to these doors and open one of them. He could open either of the doors he pleased; he was subject to no guidance or influence but that of the aforementioned impartial and incorruptible chance. If he opened the one, there came out of it a hungry tiger, the fiercest and most cruel that could be procured, which immediately sprang upon him and tore him to pieces as a punishment for his guilt. The moment that the case of the criminal was thus decided, doleful iron bells were clanged, great wails went up from the hired mourners posted on the outer rim of the arena, and the vast audience, with bowed heads and downcast hearts, wended slowly their homeward way, mourning greatly that one so young and fair, or so old and respected, should have merited so dire a fate.

But, if the accused person opened the other door, there came forth from it a lady, the most suitable to his years and station that his majesty could select among his fair subjects, and to this lady he was immediately married, as a reward of his innocence. It mattered not that he might already possess a wife and family, or that his affections might be engaged upon an object of his own selection; the king allowed no such subordinate arrangements to interfere with his great scheme of retribution and reward. The exercises, as in the other instance, took place immediately, and in the arena. Another door opened beneath the king, and a priest, followed by a band of choristers....

Arrange the following sentences as per their order of occurence in the passage:

(A) He made the accused person walk towards the two doors and open one of them.
(B) On opening another, a fair lady would come towards him.
(C) The king had a very strange idea for dispensing judgement.
(D) He was torn to pieces when he opened one of the doors.
(E) The accused opened either as he pleased without knowing what lay inside.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(C), (B), (D), (E), (A)

(C), (A), (E), (D), (B)

(C), (A), (D), (E), (B)

(C), (A), (D), (B), (E)

Correct Answer:

(C), (A), (E), (D), (B)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → (C), (A), (E), (D), (B)