Directions : Read the given information carefully and answer the questions…

In a directions-based blood-relations puzzle, every clue fixes one of three things about a person: their generation (parent/child/grandparent), their gender (in-law terms like father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law are always gender-specific), or their branch of the family (whose spouse links two branches). A cousin is, by definition, the child of one's parent's sibling (here, the child of a paternal aunt or uncle). Where a clue leaves no other person for a role, these puzzles use a standard 'no redundant character' convention: a fact is not introduced without being used, and no extra, never-mentioned relative is assumed to exist.

1. N's spouse is described as the only paternal aunt of E, so N's spouse is a sibling of E's father. D is stated to be the mother-in-law of N, i.e. D is the mother of N's spouse -- so D is also the mother of E's father (N's spouse's sibling), since the passage never introduces a different mother for either of them.

2. P is the mother of E's sibling, so P is E's mother. That sibling is fixed a few clues later: A is described as the only nephew of N's spouse. Since the passage never introduces any other sibling for E's father, N's spouse's only sibling is E's father -- so A, her one possible nephew, must be E's father's son. A is therefore E's brother, and P is A's mother too.

3. V is a grandchild of P's father-in-law -- the father of E's father, who is also the father of N's spouse. That grandfather's children are E's father and N's spouse, so V's parent is one of the two. The passage introduces V's mother under a fresh label ("C is father-in-law of V's mother, who is U") instead of reusing the already-named P -- by the same convention, U names the OTHER child of that grandfather, N's spouse, not P. So V is the child of N and N's spouse, which makes V exactly E's cousin (the child of the paternal aunt) -- matching what the question itself asks about.

4. A paternal grandparent of A is, by generation, a parent of E's father -- call this person L. L's daughter is N's spouse (she and E's father share the same parents), so L's son-in-law is her husband, N.

5. R is stated to be the parent of "L's son-in-law" (N) and, separately, the parent of H. So R is a parent of N, and H is N's sibling.

6. The clue "whose parent is G" attaches to A (the nearer person named in that sentence). A has two parents -- E's father and P -- so the pronoun alone doesn't distinguish between them. But the SAME sentence just called L specifically the PATERNAL grandparent of A, not simply "a grandparent": there would be no reason to specify "paternal" there at all if the very next clause then pivoted to A's OTHER, maternal side -- the word only does any work if the sentence stays on that one paternal line throughout. So G is A's father, i.e. E's father, now relabelled G. E's father's gender was already fixed male at the very first step (as a sibling of N's spouse). Since H's gender is stated to match G's, H is male.

7. H is therefore a male sibling of N, and N is the parent of V (V being E's cousin). A male sibling of one's parent is, by the standard family-relation vocabulary, that person's uncle.

Cross-check: R is identified only through "L's son-in-law" as a parent of N; separately, "C is father-in-law of V's mother" independently identifies C as the father of N. Since the passage introduces no third parent for N, R and C name the same person -- the same 'no redundant character' convention that made A the only nephew in step 2. This confirms the family tree is internally consistent (H's own gender, however, is fixed independently through the G-link in step 6, not through R or C).

Result: H is the uncle of E's cousin.