In this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence.
S1: He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife.
S6: He urinated outside the shack and then went up the road to wake the boy.
P: He never dreamed about the boy.
Q: He only dreamed of places and of the lions on the beach now.
R: He simply woke, looked out through the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
S: They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy.
- AR Q P S
- BS R Q P
- CQ S P R
- DP R S Q
Explanation
S1 lists what the old man no longer dreamed of, so Q ("He only dreamed of places and of the lions on the beach now") follows naturally, then S (the lions playing like young cats, loved as the boy), then P ("He never dreamed about the boy" — the contrast with his love for the boy), then R (he simply woke and dressed), leading into S6 (he went up the road to wake the boy). The coherent chain is Q-S-P-R. Hence (C).