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Direction: In each of the following questions, choose the most appropriate sequence of sentences from the given choices.

  1. (i) I had only two pence and had nothing to eat all day except bread and margarine, and was damnably hungry; however, as always happens when it is a choice between tobacco and food, I bought tobacco with my two pence.
    (ii) I had no idea how long I was going to be incarcerated and supposed that it would be several days at least.
    (iii) Then, I went down to the Church Army shelter in Waterloo Road, where you get a kip, two meals of bread and corned beef and tea and a prayer meeting, for four hours work at sawing wood.
    (iv) However, between 4 and 5 O'clock, they took me out of the cell, gave back the things which had been confiscated and shot me into the street forthwith.
    1. (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
    2. (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
    3. (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
    4. (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
Correct Option: D

The paragraph is a sequence of events.



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