Directions: In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of these four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.
S1: Louis XVI of the Bourbon family of Kings married the Austrian princess Marie Antoinette in 1770.
S6: Remarkably nevertheless, under Louis XVI, France helped the thirteen American colonies to gain their independence from Britain.
P: Furthermore, lenders, who gave the state credit, now began to charge 10 per cent interest on loans.
Q: The ascension was preceded by a war that added more than a billion livre to a debt that had already risen to more than 2 billion livre.
R: In 1774, Louis XVI ascended the throne of France at the age of 20.
S: Long years of war had drained the financial resources of France.
- ASRPQ
- BSQRP
- CRQSP
- DRSQP
Explanation
After S1's 1770 marriage, R moves to the 1774 ascension at age 20. S then gives the general cause of the crisis — "long years of war had drained the financial resources" — Q the specific debt figures, and P the lenders' 10 per cent interest, all leading to S6's remark on France's American intervention. This mirrors the NCERT account of the French Revolution, where the drained treasury precedes the debt details. RSQP is the source-faithful order.