Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. The first time that I was seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood and could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.
B. One Sunday, we went to church in Simsbury, and we were the only Negroes there and on Sunday mornings I was the religious leader and spoke on any text I wanted to107 boys.
C. Just before going to college I went to Simsbury, Connecticut, and worked for a whole summer on a tobacco farm to earn a little school money to supplement what my parents were doing.
D. After that summer in Connecticut, it was a bitter feeling going back to segregation and it was hard to understand why I could ride wherever I pleased on the train from New York to Washington and then had to change to a Jim Crow car at the nation’scapital in order to continue the trip to Atlanta.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. CBDA .
- The sentence 'C' is independent of any other sentence as it is giving general information. Hence, C is the first sentence.
- The next sentence would be B as it talks about what happened on Sunday when they went to the church.
- B will be followed by D as it talks about the bitter feeling they had after that incident.
- The concluding part would be A as it tells how that curtain on the dining table made him realize the inequality, thus creating a self-doubt.
Hence the correct order of the paragraph would be CBDA