CAT 2016 Verbal and Reading Comprehension

The following question consists of a set of five sentences These sentences need to be arranged in a coherent manner to create a meaningful paragraph. Type in the correct order of the sentences in the space provided below the question.

1. The 1800’s were transitional years in the struggle for individual democratic human rights.
2. The controversy surrounding the Women question is but one example of the shifting sands underlying the so-called firm foundation of the period’s attitudes toward faith, morality, and “every assertion [was] met with a counter assertion."
3. Most people today still believe the myth that the Victorian era was a period of a universally accepted value system; that most women lived leisurely, inactive lives, and that husbands and wives remained serenely together, both serving their separate functions in making life pleasant and meaningful.
4. As Walter Houghton has argued so forcefully in The Victorian Frame of Mind, the Victorian period could best be characterized by the word “doubts.”?
5. Such, however, was not the case, as recent scholarship has shown .