Question

The sentences (A-E) when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order. 

(A) Similarly, turning to caste, even though being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause of disparity, its impact is all the greater when the lower-caste families also happen to be poor.
(B) Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women from less thriving classes.
(C) It is the interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation—being low class and being female—that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged classes.
(D) A congruence of class deprivation and gender discrimination can blight the lives of poorer women very severely.
(E) Gender is certainly a contributor to societal inequality, but it does not act independently of class.

• A. EABDC
• B. EBDCA
• C. DAEBC
• D. BECDA

Hint:

Look for a thesis opener, examples/illustrations, then sentences with connectives like "Similarly" to extend the argument.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: Opening idea.
(E) sets the thesis: gender contributes to inequality but interacts with class (not independent). 

Step 2: Illustration via class.
(B) shows how class privilege mitigates barriers for women, linking gender with class. 

Step 3: State the combined effect.
(D) generalizes the harm when class deprivation and gender discrimination coincide. 

Step 4: Elaborate the interaction.
(C) restates the "interactive presence" explicitly (low class + female).

Step 5: Parallel case—caste with class.
(A) uses "Similarly" to extend the same logic to caste interacting with poverty. \[ \Rightarrow \boxed{\text{Order } E \rightarrow B \rightarrow D \rightarrow C \rightarrow A} \]

Answer 2

A different approach to paragraph ordering is to scan for linking words and pronoun references that tie one sentence to a specific other sentence, then rule out any option that separates a linked pair.

1. Clue 1: Sentence (A) opens with "Similarly," which must follow a sentence making a comparable point about class and gender, so it cannot be the opening sentence, ruling out any option starting with A.
2. Clue 2: Sentence (C) begins with "It is the interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation," which needs an antecedent naming those two kinds. Sentence (D) supplies exactly that ("class deprivation and gender discrimination"), so D must come immediately before C.
3. Clue 3: Checking the options, only "EBDCA" keeps D directly before C while also opening with the thesis statement (E) and placing the caste illustration (A) last, exactly as the "Similarly" clue requires.

This sequence, thesis, class example, combined harm, elaboration, caste parallel, reads as a single coherent argument.

Hence, the correct answer is EBDCA.