The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly. S1: Science first began to become important after A.D. 1500. S6: Men read them, became inquisitive again, and began to want to find things out. P: As a result of this, books came to be circulated. Q: During the Middle Ages the coming of Science was hindered by the Church. R: In the middle of the fifteenth century, however, the Turks captured the city of Constantinople and the Greek books were scattered far and wide. S: It considered the free inquiry into the nature of things to be wicked. The correct sequence should be

The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly. S1: Science first began to become important after A.D. 1500. S6: Men read them, became inquisitive again, and began to want to find things out. P: As a result of this, books came to be circulated. Q: During the Middle Ages the coming of Science was hindered by the Church. R: In the middle of the fifteenth century, however, the Turks captured the city of Constantinople and the Greek books were scattered far and wide. S: It considered the free inquiry into the nature of things to be wicked. The correct sequence should be Correct Answer Q S R P

The given set of sentences discusses the coming of Science as a subject in the world for the first time. It further talks about how enquiry into nature was unwelcomed by the church and experimenting with nature was considered to be wicked. Later, it shows how after the invasion of the Turks in the city of Constantinople, the Greek books reached far off places and started to be circulated.

First sentence: Thus the first sentence Q tells us how science was dealt with by the church in the middle ages after its advent in 1500 A.D.

Second sentence: The next sentence tells us about how it was considered to be wicked and evil whenever there was a free enquiry into the working of nature, hence, sentence S.

Third sentence: We are now told about the Turks’ invasion which allowed Greek books to reach places far away. Thus, sentence R.