Question

Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer:

• A. Talk was the most common way for enslaved men and women to subvert the rules of their bondage, to gain more agency than they were supposed to have.
• B. Even in conditions of extreme violence and unfreedom, their words remained ubiquitous, ephemeral, irrepressible, and potentially transgressive.
• C. Slaves came from societies in which oaths, orations, and invocations carried great potency, both between people and as a connection to the all-powerful spirit world.
• D. Freedom of speech and the power to silence may have been preeminent markers of white liberty in Colonies, but at the same time, slavery depended on dialogue: slaves could never be completely muted.
• E. Slave-owners obsessed over slave talk, though they could never control it, yet feared its power to bind and inspire—for, as everyone knew, oaths, whispers, and secret conversations bred conspiracy and revolt.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Statements (A), (B), (D), and (E) explore into the theme of how speech and the freedom to communicate were integral aspects of the lives of slaves. They underscore the central role this element played in the institution of slavery, highlighting that "slaves could never be completely muted."
In contrast, Statement (C) diverges onto a tangential path by discussing the potency of "oaths, orations, and invocations" in relation to the slaves' origins, delving into "...a connection to the all-powerful spirit world..." which seems out of place within the context. Therefore, Statement (3) stands out as the anomaly in this discussion.

So, the correct option is (C): Slaves came from societies in which oaths, orations, and invocations carried great potency, both between people and as a connection to the all-powerful spirit world.