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 of the four sentences.
S1: "When I was alive and had a human heart," answered the statue, "I did not know what tears were, for I lived in the Palace of Sans-Souci where sorrow is not allowed to enter.
S6: And now that I am dead they have set me up here so high that I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep."
P: So I lived, and so I died.
Q: Round the garden ran a very lofty wall, but I never cared to ask what lay beyond it, everything about me was so beautiful.
R: My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness.
S: In the daytime I played with my companions in the garden, and in the evening I led the dance in the Great Hall.
The correct sequence should be
- AQSRP
- BPQRS
- CPRQS
- DRPQS
Explanation
S1 (the statue) recalls the walled palace; (Q) the lofty wall with beauty all around; (S) days of play and evenings of dance; (R) the courtiers' name for him, the Happy Prince; (P) "So I lived, and so I died" — into S6, set up high, weeping over the city's misery. The narrative thus flows chronologically from palace life to death to the present weeping statue. The sequence Q-S-R-P is option (A).