Question

Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.

• A. The Bayeux tapestry was, therefore, an obvious way to tell people about the downfall of the English and the rise of the Normans.
• B. So if we take expert in Anglo-Saxon culture Gale Owen-Crocker’s idea that the tapestry was originally hung in a square with certain scenes facing each other, people would have stood in the centre.
• C. Art historian Linda Neagley has argued that pre-Renaissance people interacted with art visually, kinaesthetically (sensory perception through bodily movement) and physically.
• D. That would make it an 11th-century immersive space with scenes corresponding and echoing each other, drawing the viewer’s attention, playing on their senses and understanding of the story they thought they knew.
• E. The Bayeux tapestry would have been hung at eye level to enable this.

Hint:

For “odd sentence out” questions, first build the strongest possible mini-paragraph with four sentences; the one that doesn’t fit that structure—by topic or logical flow—is your answer.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Step 1: Find a coherent sequence among four sentences. & nbsp;

Sentence 3 gives a general claim: how pre-Renaissance people interacted with art (visually, kinaesthetically, physically).

Sentence 5 applies this idea specifically to the Bayeux tapestry: it would have been hung at eye level “to enable this” — i.e., the kind of embodied interaction mentioned in 3. So we get: 3 → 5.

Sentence 2 then introduces Owen-Crocker’s idea about the tapestry being hung in a square with viewers in the centre — further specifying how people would interact with it spatially.

Sentence 4 draws the conclusion from 2: “That would make it an 11th-century immersive space...”, clearly referring back to the arrangement described in 2.

Thus, a coherent paragraph is: 3 → 5 → 2 → 4

Step 2: Identify the odd one out.

Sentence 1 talks about the Bayeux tapestry as a way to tell people about the downfall of the English and rise of the Normans — its narrative/political function. This does not connect to the rest of the sentences, which focus on how people physically and sensorially interacted with the tapestry as an immersive space.

Conclusion:

Therefore, the odd sentence out is: 1