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Re-order Paragraphs

PTE · Re-order Paragraphs

Arrange the sentences into a logical order.

Put the sentences in the correct order:

  1. Strangely, this gloom also left a cultural mark, as the dreary, housebound weather inspired Mary Shelley to begin writing her novel Frankenstein.
  2. The resulting food shortages drove up prices and forced thousands of families to abandon their farms in search of better land.
  3. This material spread across the globe and dimmed the sun, lowering temperatures and triggering crop failures from New England to the Swiss Alps.
  4. The cause lay on the other side of the world: the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia the previous year had hurled enormous quantities of ash and gas into the upper atmosphere.
  5. In 1816, much of Europe and North America experienced what came to be known as the "Year Without a Summer," a period of bizarre and devastating weather.

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