Read each paragraph and answer the questions that follow by choosing the letter of the correct response.

Question

(1) One of the first political leaders to realize the importance of public relations was Augustus Caesar, who in the first century commissioned statues of himself to be erected throughout the Roman Empire to enhance his image. (2) Since then, many political leaders have ordered heroic images of themselves printed on coins and stamps. (3) Today’s public relations approach can be traced to the beginning of the 20th century. Journalists were an important reason for the eventual emergence of the public relations profession.(4) Before 1900, businesses believed they could work alongside the press, or even ignore it. (5) Many stories that appeared in the press promoted companies that bought advertising. (6) Then the Industrial Revolution arrived, and some industrialists exploited workers and collected enormous profits. (7) Just before the turn of the 20th century, Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens began to make businesspeople uncomfortable, writing stories for magazines like McClure’s about the not so admirable characteristics of some companies, such as Standard Oil.

Which of the following sentences does NOT begin a with a sequence transition?
a. sentence 2
b. sentence 3
c. sentence 4
d. sentence 5

Answer 1

c. sentence 4