Parajumbles Question 2 - CAT 2025

Question

When I ask the distinguished LGBTQ activist and writer Cherie Moraga whether she uses Latinx to refer to herself, she tells me, ‘I worked too hard for the “a” in Latina to give it up! I refer to myself as Xicana.’

Of our accumulated ethnic population, only a third use Hispanic to identify themselves, a mere 14 percent use Latino, and less than 2 percent recognize Latinx.

They have done this, although gender in languages is grammatical, not sociological or sexual, and found in linguistic families throughout the world, from French to Russian to Japanese.

More recently, activists seeking to render our name gender neutral, out of respect for our LGBTQ members, have devised yet another name for us: Latinx.

Correct Sequence: 4312
Explanation: Sentence 4 sets up the paragraph by introducing the newly coined term "Latinx" and the reason for its creation. Sentence 3 immediately pairs with it (4-3) because it opens with the demonstrative block "They have done this...", where "They" matches the "activists" and "this" matches the action of creating the term. Sentence 1 shifts from theory to a narrative anecdote, highlighting an interview with an actual LGBTQ activist who rejects the word. Sentence 2 elegantly wraps up the paragraph by contextualizing this singular rejection with macro data, highlighting that less than 2% of the population actually uses the word.
FundaMakers Tip: Track Demonstrative Pointers. Words like "done this", "this phenomenon", or "these ideas" require an immediate, preceding action. If a sentence says "They have done this," ask yourself exactly what they did. The answer will point directly to your preceding sentence.