Directions: In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the answer sheet.

S1: The macaron is an old, and very popular, French snack, but its origins lie elsewhere.

S6: Though the macaron first arrived as a simple chewy baked almond cookie, it evolved into the double-cookie version, its halves joined by a variety of fillings, which probably developed in the 1830s.

P: The ancestor of the macaron is an almond cookie that was first made in Italy in the late 1400s and was widely baked in the monasteries of Venice for centuries.

Q: They became known as the Soeurs Macarons (“Macaron Sisters”), and the place where they lived and worked in Nancy is today named in their honour.

R: The cookie arrived in France in the early 16th century, perhaps brought by the chefs of Catherine de’ Medici of Italy after she married the future King Henry II of France, in 1533.

S: The pastry was largely reserved for the aristocracy and the wealthy until the French Revolution, when two religious sisters sought refuge in Nancy (in Lorraine, northeastern France) after the closing of their abbey and survived by selling macarons to the public.