Select the Letter of the Answer That Arranges the Ideas

Multiple Choice

Select the letter of the answer that arranges the ideas that develop each of the topic sentences below in their order of importance. Begin with the most important (or largest, most severe, most surprising) and continue to the least important. On January 2, the Waltons returned to find that their home had been robbed.
____ The DVD player was gone.
____ A jar with about $20 in change was nowhere to be found.
____ A video game worth $40 had been taken.
____ Mrs. Walton's diamond ring was missing.
____ Two cans of noodle soup had been filched.

A) 5, 3, 1, 4, 2
B) 2, 4, 3, 1, 5
C) 3, 2, 1, 4, 5