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: Chinua Achebe was born in 1930 and educated at the Government College in Umuahia, Nigeria.
S6: Chinua Achebe has written over twenty books, including novels, stories, essays and collections of poetry, and won the Nobel Prize for literature.
P: During the Civil War in Nigeria, he worked for the Biafran government service.
Q: After the War, he was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
R: He joined the Nigerian Broadcasting Company in Lagos in 1954, later becoming its Director of External Broadcasting.
S: He received a BA from London University in 1953 and in 1956 he studied broadcasting in London at the BBC.
The correct sequence should be
- ASRPQ
- BRPQS
- CPQRS
- DQRSP
Explanation
Chronology decides it: S (BA 1953, BBC study 1956) comes before R (joined NBC 1954, later Director), then P (Biafran service during the Civil War), then Q (fellowship after the war), leading to S6's books and Nobel. SRPQ is the only order that runs forward in time; the others place the war service before the 1950s career.