S1. Vijayanagara or 'city of victory' was the name of both a city and an empire S6. They remembered it as Hampi, a name derived from that of the local mother goddess, Pampadevi P. In its heyday it stretched from the river Krishna in the north to the extreme south of the Indian peninsula Q. Although it fell into ruin in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, it continued to live in the memories of the people who inhabited the Krishna–Tungabhadra doab R. In 1565 the city was sacked and subsequently deserted S. The Empire was founded in the fourteenth century
- (a)S P R Q
- (b)S Q P R
- (c)P Q S R
- (d)P Q R S
Correct — A, the order S P R Q. The middle sentences run in strict chronological order after S1 names Vijayanagara: S dates the founding (fourteenth century), P describes the empire at its heyday, R records the 1565 sacking and desertion, and Q covers the seventeenth-eighteenth-century ruin while it 'continued to live in the memories' of local people — which S6 completes with 'They remembered it as Hampi'.
- (b)S Q P R — Jumps from the founding (S) straight to the seventeenth-eighteenth-century ruin (Q) before the heyday (P) and the 1565 sack (R) — an empire cannot fall to ruin before it flourishes or is sacked.
- (c)P Q S R — Opens with the heyday (P) before S establishes the fourteenth-century founding, and ends on the 1565 sack (R), which would then follow the later ruin.
- (d)P Q R S — Also starts with the heyday before the founding, and pushes S (founded fourteenth century) to the very end, after the sacking and ruin — chronologically impossible.
A history para-jumble solved by dates — founding, heyday, 1565 sack, later ruin — with the 'memory' sentence (Q) feeding the closing line about Hampi (S6).
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
When a para-jumble contains dated events, the safest ordering principle is —
- (a)reverse chronology
- (b)earliest date to latest date
- (c)longest sentence first
- (d)alphabetical by keyword
Answer(b) earliest date to latest date — dated events run forward in time.
- practice — not a real PYQ
A closing sentence 'They remembered it as Hampi' is best preceded by a sentence about —
- (a)the empire's founding
- (b)its heyday extent
- (c)how it lived on in people's memory
- (d)its 1565 sacking
Answer(c) how it lived on in people's memory — 'They remembered' continues that idea.