Parajumbles Question 2 - CAT 2022

Question

If I wanted to sit indoors and read, or play Sonic the Hedgehog on a red-hot SegaMega Drive, I would often be made to feel guilty about not going outside to “enjoy it while it lasts”.

My mum, quite reasonably, wanted me and my sister out of the house, in the sun.

Tales of my mum’s idyllic-sounding childhood in the Sussex countryside, where trees were climbed by 8 am and streams navigated by lunchtime, were passed down to us like folklore.

To an introverted kid, that felt like a threat – and the feeling has stayed with me.

Correct Sequence: 2314
Explanation: Sentence 2 acts as the perfect structural anchor, cleanly establishing the mother's core desire: wanting the narrator and their sister out in the sun. Sentence 3 provides the background context for that desire (2-3), explaining that her insistence stemmed from the folklore-like tales of her own active childhood in the Sussex countryside. Sentence 1 presents the narrator's friction with this parental baseline, noting how they were made to feel deeply guilty for wanting to stay indoors and play video games. Sentence 4 ties the entire thought loop together—the demonstrative phrase "that felt like a threat" directly references the forced outdoor mandate and the pressure to “enjoy it while it lasts” from sentence 1.
FundaMakers Tip: Pronoun-Antecedent Clues. When sentence 4 opens with "To an introverted kid, that felt like a threat", it looks backward for a source of anxiety. Sentence 1 ends with the looming parental instruction to go outside and "enjoy it while it lasts," which perfectly matches the psychological impact described in 4.