Direction: Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences 1 and 6.
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1. A nation will territorial encompass a number of different localities.
A. While the spatially smaller village, city, and region continue to exist, they are understood by their inhabitants to be parts of the nation.
B. Because the nation exhibits only a relative cultural uniformity, it is often difficult to distinguish it from other territorial societies.
C. However, during periods of intense patriotic enthusiasm, such as during a war, the attachments of the inhabitants of the local village, city, or region to the nation may become dominant; but such a situation can only be episodic.
D. Thus, the common culture of the nation is only relative; it is rarely complete such that the inhabitants of the village, city, and region within the nation cease to recognize themselves as inhabitants of such localities.
6. It is tempting to avoid this difficulty by formulating categories that are differentiated by degrees of cultural uniformity, thereby distinguishing one form of territorial relation from another.
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- A D C B
- A C D B
- A D B C
- B A D C
Correct Option: A
A starts the sequence as it follows I in naming the different localities that a nation encompasses and on the basis of this, D concludes, that the common culture of a nation is only relative. C follows D as it gives a contrasting view by describing a situation where the relative culture may get dominated by patriotic fervor. B begins another line of thought that gets completed in statement VI. Also, the ‘this difficulty’ in statement VI refers to the ‘situation’ mentioned in B. The correct sequence is A D C B. Thus, option (a) is the correct answer.
