Question

Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer:

• A. The victim’s trauma after assault rarely gets the attention that we lavish on the moment of damage that divided the survivor from a less encumbered past.
• B. One thing we often do with narratives of sexual assault is sort their respective parties into different temporalities: it seems we are interested in perpetrators’ futures and victims’ pasts.
• C. One result is that we don’t have much of a vocabulary for what happens in a victim’s life after the painful past has been excavated, even when our shared language gestures toward the future, as the term “survivor” does.
• D. Even the most charitable questions asked about the victims seem to focus on the past, in pursuit of understanding or of corroboration of painful details.
• E. As more and more stories of sexual assault have been made public in the last two years, the genre of their telling has exploded --- crimes have a tendency to become not just stories but genres.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

The focal point here revolves around the narratives of sexual assault and how victims are subsequently treated. The paragraph commences with Option E, addressing the transformation of sexual assault narratives into a distinct genre.
Option B highlights a notable aspect within these narratives: the widespread curiosity about perpetrators' futures and victims' pasts.
Option C elaborates on the consequences of the latter: the emphasis on a victim's history, and option A reinforces this observation.
Although option D touches upon a related theme, its discussion diverges into the topic of posing questions to survivors, which is yet to be addressed. Hence, option D stands as the outlier.

The correct answer is (D): Even the most charitable questions asked about the victims seem to focus on the past, in pursuit of understanding or of corroboration of painful details.