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Question 16 : The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. The effigy of a candidate establishes a personal link between him and the voters; the candidate does not only offer a programme for judgement, he suggests a physical climate, a set of daily choices expressed in a morphology, a way of dressing, a posture.
2. Some candidates for Parliament adorn their electoral prospectus with a portrait; this presupposes that photography has a power to convert which must be analysed.
3. Inasmuch as photography is an ellipse of language and a condensation of an ‘ineffable’ social whole, it constitutes an anti-intellectual weapon and tends to spirit away ‘politics’ (that is to say a body of problems and solutions) to the advantage of a ‘manner of being’, a socio-moral status.
4. Photography tends to restore the paternalistic nature of elections, whose elitist essence has been disrupted by proportional representation and the rule of parties (the Right seems to use it more than the Left).

Explanatory Answer

Tricky question. Of the given sentences, 2 is the best one to start the paragraph as it sets the context: the supposition that photography has a power to convert in elections is what is analysed in the paragraph. While 1, 3 and 4 all seem to make sense after 2, 1 links better to 2 than the others. This is because 2 mentions the electoral prospectus and 1 says the candidate not only offers a programme for judgement, but also something more. The 'programme for judgement' in 1 links to the 'electoral prospectus' in 2. So, we have the link 21. Now, 1 says the effigy of a candidate suggests 'a physical climate, a set of daily choices expressed in a morphology, a way of dressing, a posture'. Sentence 4, too, relates to how photography links to the 'image' of a candidate. Also, between 3 and 4, 3 is a better concluding sentence than 4 as it helps sum up how photography can help the candidate present his socio-moral status to voters. So, 2143 is the correct order.

The answer is '2143'

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