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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.

  1. The Bayeux tapestry was, therefore, an obvious way to tell people about the downfall of the English and the rise of the Normans.
  2. 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.
  3. Art historian Linda Neagley has argued that pre-Renaissance people interacted with art visually, kinaesthetically (sensory perception through bodily movement) and physically.
  4. 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.
  5. The Bayeux tapestry would have been hung at eye level to enable this.

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Solution

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The coherent chain is 3-5-2-4, all about how viewers physically experienced the tapestry: Neagley's claim about embodied interaction (3), the eye-level hanging that enables this (5), Owen-Crocker's square layout with viewers in the centre (2), and the resulting immersive space (4). Sentence 1 is about the tapestry's propaganda purpose (telling of the Norman conquest), a different theme, so it is the odd one out.

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