Q32: GOA Prelims 2022 Screening Test: Previous Year Question with Answer

Read the passage below and answer the questions below And on top of all this was Smattering Hall itself. Smattering Hall destroyed Mordred’s last hope. It was one of those vast edifices, so common throughout the countryside of England, whose original founders seem to have budgeted for families of twenty-five or so and a domestic staff of not less than a hundred. ‘Home isn’t home’, one can picture them as saying to themselves,’ unless you have plenty of elbow room’. And so, this huge, majestic pile had come into being. Romantic persons, confronted with it, thought of knights in armours riding forth to the Crusades. More earthy individuals felt it must cost a packet to keep up. Mordred’s reaction of passing through the front door was a sort of sick sensation, a kind of settled despair. Based on the tone and sense of the passage, arrange the following statements in the order of their importance in the narrative: (i) Smattering Hall was one of those vast edifices, so common throughout the countryside of England. (ii) Smattering Hall destroyed Mordred’s last hope. (iii)It must cost a packet to keep up. (iv)Its founders seem to have budgeted for families of twenty-five or so and a domestic staff of not less than a hundred.