Panic gripped the people A. of the village B. beside the city C. on Friday D.…

Answer: The correct ordering of the fragments is: 'of the village', followed by 'beside the city', then 'on Friday', and finally 'after the terrorist attack'.

This produces the full sentence: Panic gripped the people of the village beside the city on Friday after the terrorist attack.

• Why this order is correct: place modifiers must be adjacent to the noun they modify, so 'beside the city' must immediately follow 'the village'.

• Temporal modifiers ('on Friday', 'after the terrorist attack') naturally come after place expressions, making the sequence clear and natural.

• Why the other orderings fail: putting 'beside the city' before 'of the village' produces 'beside the city of the village', which is not a natural noun-modifier structure.

• Separating 'beside the city' from 'the village' by inserting time phrases makes the sentence unclear because the place modifier no longer directly describes the village.