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Question
Consider this list of the different things that happened and rearrange them in the order of time, that is, what happened first, what happened next, and so on. Read the related paragraph again if you are uncertain.
(a) The bearded man resolved to kill the king.
(b) The king went alone to see the hermit.
(c) The king executed the bearded man’s brother.
(d) The king spent the night at the hermit’s hut.
(e) The bearded man laid an ambush to kill the king.
(f) The king’s bodyguards recognised and wounded the bearded man.
(g) The bearded man came out of the ambush.
Solution
- The king executed the bearded man's brother.
- The king went alone to see the hermit.
- The bearded man resolved to kill the king.
- The bearded man laid an ambush to kill the king.
- The bearded man came out of the ambush.
- The king's bodyguards recognised and wounded the bearded man.
- The king spent the night at the hermit's hut.
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