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Para-jumble (travel vignette): Reorder the sentences to narrate what really happened at a Tangier street café, moving from the first impression to the surprising reveal. S1 = "On vacation in Tangier, Morocco, my friend and I sat down at a street café." S6 = "Finally a man walked over to me and whispered, "Hey buddy, this guy is your waiter and he wants your order."" Between S1 and S6, arrange the fragments into a coherent scene: P = "At one point, he bent over with a big smile, showing me a single gold tooth and a dingy fez." Q = "Soon I felt the presence of someone standing alongside me." R = "But this one wouldn't budge." S = "We had been cautioned about beggars and were told to ignore them." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.

Difficulty: Medium

Correct Answer: QSRP

Explanation:


Given data

  • S1 sets the setting: a street café in Tangier.
  • Q introduces the person standing nearby (perceived as a beggar).
  • S recalls prior advice to ignore beggars.
  • R highlights the anomaly: this person wouldn't leave.
  • P describes the man's appearance and behavior (gold tooth, fez), sustaining the misidentification until S6 reveals he is the waiter.


Concept / Approach
Use misdirection → policy → violation of expectation → descriptive confirmation → reveal. The narrative first notices (Q), then applies a rule (S), then observes defiance (R), and finally describes the man (P) before the twist in S6.


Step-by-step ordering
S1 + Q → someone stands by the narrator.… + S → advice to ignore perceived beggars.… + R → this person doesn't go away.… + P → vivid description sustains the misread.… + S6 → twist: he is the waiter.


Why others fail (quick checks)
SQRP/SQPR begin with policy before perception; Q must introduce the situation first.QSPR jumps from policy to description (P) without showing the unusual persistence (R) that motivates the reveal.


Final Answer
QSRP

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