Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Aeschylean tragedy.
WATCHMAN: The beacon has spoken, yet the stones beneath this palace seem colder than before.
CHORUS: Victory enters through the gate, but behind her walks the debt of blood. The house remembers what its rulers choose to forget.
KING: I crossed the sea, broke the towers, and returned beneath the eyes of the gods. Let purple cloth receive the feet that conquered Asia.
ELDER: Greatness need not tread upon what belongs to heaven.
KING: Must a ruler shrink because old men tremble? Spread it. Let every citizen see what fortune has made of me.
CHORUS: Fortune raises a man high enough for the hidden net to tighten. Pride calls the step splendid; wisdom hears the thread being drawn.
WATCHMAN: The queen smiles, the doors open, and no trumpet sounds from within.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
What central warning does the chorus communicate?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The chorus links victory with a continuing 'debt of blood' and describes a hidden net tightening around the king.
• Option B is correct because the passage presents pride as the force that converts triumph into danger.
• Option A is contradicted by the uneasy atmosphere surrounding the king's return.
• In Greek tragedy, the chorus often interprets action morally and warns of consequences that the protagonist cannot yet perceive.
• Option B is correct because the passage presents pride as the force that converts triumph into danger.
• Option A is contradicted by the uneasy atmosphere surrounding the king's return.
• In Greek tragedy, the chorus often interprets action morally and warns of consequences that the protagonist cannot yet perceive.
వివరణ:
Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Why is the king's decision to walk on the purple cloth significant?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The elder warns that the cloth belongs to heaven, yet the king insists on using it as a public display of greatness.
• Option D is correct because the act symbolically crosses the boundary between human achievement and divine privilege.
• Hubris in classical tragedy is excessive pride that blinds a powerful figure to moral or cosmic limits.
• The action therefore functions as a visible sign of the king's tragic overconfidence.
• Option D is correct because the act symbolically crosses the boundary between human achievement and divine privilege.
• Hubris in classical tragedy is excessive pride that blinds a powerful figure to moral or cosmic limits.
• The action therefore functions as a visible sign of the king's tragic overconfidence.
వివరణ:
Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which image most clearly foreshadows the king's destruction?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The chorus imagines fortune raising the king high enough for a hidden net to tighten around him.
• Option A is correct because a net suggests entrapment, loss of freedom and an approaching fall.
• The beacon announces victory, whereas the net points toward the danger concealed inside that victory.
• Foreshadowing prepares the audience for an event before it occurs and intensifies tragic suspense.
• Option A is correct because a net suggests entrapment, loss of freedom and an approaching fall.
• The beacon announces victory, whereas the net points toward the danger concealed inside that victory.
• Foreshadowing prepares the audience for an event before it occurs and intensifies tragic suspense.
వివరణ:
Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
What is the dominant tone of the final line spoken by the watchman?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The queen's smile and the opening doors appear welcoming, but the absence of any trumpet creates an unnatural silence.
• Option C is correct because the watchman reports danger indirectly rather than declaring it openly.
• The restraint makes the line more ominous: the audience senses that violence may occur behind the doors.
• In tragedy, silence and withheld information can produce tension as effectively as explicit prophecy.
• Option C is correct because the watchman reports danger indirectly rather than declaring it openly.
• The restraint makes the line more ominous: the audience senses that violence may occur behind the doors.
• In tragedy, silence and withheld information can produce tension as effectively as explicit prophecy.
వివరణ:
Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which feature of the king most closely resembles a tragic flaw in the passage?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The king dismisses the elder's warning and demands a public display of his elevated status.
• Option B is correct because his need to prove greatness overrides prudence.
• This flaw combines pride, impatience and blindness to consequences, all of which move him toward disaster.
• A tragic flaw need not be simple wickedness; it is often a characteristic that becomes destructive under pressure.
• Option B is correct because his need to prove greatness overrides prudence.
• This flaw combines pride, impatience and blindness to consequences, all of which move him toward disaster.
• A tragic flaw need not be simple wickedness; it is often a characteristic that becomes destructive under pressure.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Sophoclean tragedy.
RULER: No citizen shall bury the rebel. The city survives only when law stands above private grief.
YOUNG WOMAN: A law written this morning cannot silence duties older than the city.
RULER: You admit the act?
YOUNG WOMAN: I covered my brother with dust. I did not hide it then, and I will not deny it now.
CHORUS: The same blood speaks from both faces: one commands, one refuses, and neither bends.
RULER: Mercy toward treason teaches every household to mock authority.
YOUNG WOMAN: Authority that fears a handful of dust has already mocked itself.
MESSENGER: My lord, the people praise her in whispers, though they lower their eyes when you pass.
CHORUS: The city is quiet, but quietness is not consent. Where two certainties strike like iron, wisdom must enter before grief does.
Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
What is the principal conflict in the passage?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The ruler defends civic law, while the young woman appeals to duties older than the city and buries her brother.
• Option C is correct because the passage opposes political command to kinship and sacred obligation.
• The conflict is not merely personal; each character represents a different moral order.
• Sophoclean tragedy often develops through competing claims that are individually powerful but mutually destructive.
• Option C is correct because the passage opposes political command to kinship and sacred obligation.
• The conflict is not merely personal; each character represents a different moral order.
• Sophoclean tragedy often develops through competing claims that are individually powerful but mutually destructive.
వివరణ:
Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
What does the messenger's report imply about the citizens?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The messenger states that the people praise her in whispers but lower their eyes when the ruler passes.
• Option A is correct because the citizens' admiration is concealed by fear.
• Their silence is therefore political caution rather than genuine agreement.
• This supports the chorus's observation that quietness should not be mistaken for consent.
• Option A is correct because the citizens' admiration is concealed by fear.
• Their silence is therefore political caution rather than genuine agreement.
• This supports the chorus's observation that quietness should not be mistaken for consent.
వివరణ:
Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
The audience's awareness that rigid certainty may destroy both characters creates which dramatic effect?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The chorus warns that wisdom must intervene before grief, but the two central figures remain unbending.
• Option D is correct because the audience can recognize the danger of their certainty before the characters fully acknowledge it.
• Dramatic irony arises when spectators understand implications that a character ignores or misreads.
• The effect intensifies pity and fear by making the approaching catastrophe visible yet preventable.
• Option D is correct because the audience can recognize the danger of their certainty before the characters fully acknowledge it.
• Dramatic irony arises when spectators understand implications that a character ignores or misreads.
• The effect intensifies pity and fear by making the approaching catastrophe visible yet preventable.
వివరణ:
Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
How is the young woman primarily characterized?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• She openly admits the burial and refuses to deny her action.
• Option B is correct because her speech combines courage, defiance and commitment to an older moral duty.
• She does not conceal her act, which rules out secrecy and uncertainty.
• Her strength also contributes to the tragic collision because her moral firmness leaves little room for compromise.
• Option B is correct because her speech combines courage, defiance and commitment to an older moral duty.
• She does not conceal her act, which rules out secrecy and uncertainty.
• Her strength also contributes to the tragic collision because her moral firmness leaves little room for compromise.
వివరణ:
Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Why is the conflict in the passage capable of producing tragic catharsis?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The ruler defends civic order, while the young woman defends familial and sacred obligation; both claims possess moral force.
• Option C is correct because the audience can pity the characters and fear the consequences of their unbending certainty.
• Catharsis is the tragic emotional process associated with the arousal and resolution or clarification of pity and fear.
• The chorus's image of two certainties striking like iron shows why the conflict is tragic rather than a simple contest between good and evil.
• Option C is correct because the audience can pity the characters and fear the consequences of their unbending certainty.
• Catharsis is the tragic emotional process associated with the arousal and resolution or clarification of pity and fear.
• The chorus's image of two certainties striking like iron shows why the conflict is tragic rather than a simple contest between good and evil.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Euripidean tragedy.
EXILED WOMAN: They call me foreign when they need a reason to distrust me, wife when they need obedience, and mother when they need sacrifice.
NURSE: Do not let anger choose the weapon that sorrow has placed in your hand.
EXILED WOMAN: He has taken a younger bride and named ambition necessity. The city applauds because betrayal wears a golden robe.
NURSE: Your children still run to you without fear.
EXILED WOMAN: That is why fear enters me. Love has become the door through which my enemy may wound me.
CHORUS OF WOMEN: We know the narrow rooms assigned to women, but pain does not become justice merely because men first caused it.
EXILED WOMAN: Justice? The powerful give that name to whatever leaves them unharmed.
CHORUS OF WOMEN: Then prove them wrong without becoming the proof they desire.
Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
What grievance dominates the exiled woman's speech?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The speaker describes being treated as foreign, obedient wife and sacrificial mother, while her husband takes another bride.
• Option A is correct because personal betrayal is intensified by her vulnerable position as an outsider and a woman.
• The passage therefore combines domestic injury with political and social exclusion.
• Euripidean drama frequently gives marginalized figures powerful arguments that complicate the audience's moral response.
• Option A is correct because personal betrayal is intensified by her vulnerable position as an outsider and a woman.
• The passage therefore combines domestic injury with political and social exclusion.
• Euripidean drama frequently gives marginalized figures powerful arguments that complicate the audience's moral response.
వివరణ:
Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
What is implied by the phrase 'betrayal wears a golden robe'?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The husband calls his ambitious remarriage a necessity, and the city approves it.
• Option C is correct because the golden robe symbolizes status and respectability covering moral betrayal.
• The phrase is metaphorical, not a literal comment on clothing or magic.
• The image exposes how social prestige can make wrongdoing appear acceptable.
• Option C is correct because the golden robe symbolizes status and respectability covering moral betrayal.
• The phrase is metaphorical, not a literal comment on clothing or magic.
• The image exposes how social prestige can make wrongdoing appear acceptable.
వివరణ:
Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
What function does the chorus perform in this passage?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The chorus acknowledges the restrictions placed on women but refuses to equate suffering with moral permission.
• Option B is correct because it combines solidarity with ethical restraint.
• The chorus understands the speaker's pain yet challenges her to resist without committing further injustice.
• This balanced role guides the audience between sympathy for the injured person and fear of destructive revenge.
• Option B is correct because it combines solidarity with ethical restraint.
• The chorus understands the speaker's pain yet challenges her to resist without committing further injustice.
• This balanced role guides the audience between sympathy for the injured person and fear of destructive revenge.
వివరణ:
Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which internal conflict is most evident in the exiled woman's reference to her children?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• She admits that her children approach without fear, yet she also sees love as a route by which her enemy can wound her.
• Option D is correct because affection and vengeance have become dangerously entangled.
• The children are emotionally precious, but that very value makes them vulnerable within her logic of retaliation.
• The conflict creates psychological complexity and prepares the audience for a choice that may violate ordinary expectations of motherhood.
• Option D is correct because affection and vengeance have become dangerously entangled.
• The children are emotionally precious, but that very value makes them vulnerable within her logic of retaliation.
• The conflict creates psychological complexity and prepares the audience for a choice that may violate ordinary expectations of motherhood.
వివరణ:
Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which statement best captures the passage's critical view of justice?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The speaker argues that the powerful define justice in ways that leave themselves unharmed.
• Option A is correct because the passage questions who controls legal and moral language.
• The chorus, however, prevents the critique from becoming a defence of unlimited revenge.
• The passage therefore distinguishes between exposing biased justice and abandoning ethical responsibility altogether.
• Option A is correct because the passage questions who controls legal and moral language.
• The chorus, however, prevents the critique from becoming a defence of unlimited revenge.
• The passage therefore distinguishes between exposing biased justice and abandoning ethical responsibility altogether.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Aristophanic comedy.
SAUSAGE SELLER: Citizens, I am perfectly qualified to govern: I can shout over three markets at once, promise twice what the treasury owns, and blame yesterday for tomorrow.
OLD FARMER: At last, a statesman who speaks honestly about dishonesty.
CHORUS: Crown him with onions! Let every tear prove his patriotism.
POLITICIAN: This fellow has no education.
SAUSAGE SELLER: Exactly. Education might teach me to hesitate.
OLD FARMER: What is your plan for peace?
SAUSAGE SELLER: First, I shall declare victory. Then I shall ask the enemy what battle we won.
CHORUS: Splendid strategy! A fact discovered after a speech is twice as useful as a fact discovered before it.
POLITICIAN: The assembly cannot reward such nonsense.
OLD FARMER: Why not? It has rewarded more expensive nonsense for years.
Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
What is the main target of the passage's satire?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The sausage seller boasts of shouting, overpromising and inventing victory before facts are known.
• Option D is correct because the passage mocks leaders who manipulate crowds and citizens who reward such behaviour.
• The satire is political rather than an attack on farming or education itself.
• Aristophanic comedy commonly uses exaggeration, ridicule and absurd logic to expose civic weaknesses.
• Option D is correct because the passage mocks leaders who manipulate crowds and citizens who reward such behaviour.
• The satire is political rather than an attack on farming or education itself.
• Aristophanic comedy commonly uses exaggeration, ridicule and absurd logic to expose civic weaknesses.
వివరణ:
Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Why is the old farmer's remark about honest dishonesty comic?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The sausage seller openly lists deceitful habits as political qualifications.
• Option B is correct because the farmer responds as though this confession were admirable honesty.
• The humour depends on paradox: truthful self-description reveals unfitness rather than virtue.
• Such comic inversion exposes how low expectations can make blatant misconduct seem refreshing.
• Option B is correct because the farmer responds as though this confession were admirable honesty.
• The humour depends on paradox: truthful self-description reveals unfitness rather than virtue.
• Such comic inversion exposes how low expectations can make blatant misconduct seem refreshing.
వివరణ:
Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
What rhetorical device dominates the chorus's praise of discovering facts after speeches?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The chorus calls delayed facts more useful, although responsible reasoning requires evidence before public claims.
• Option C is correct because the stated praise communicates criticism.
• Verbal irony occurs when the literal words differ from the intended meaning.
• The device invites the audience to recognize the absurdity of propaganda that creates conclusions first and evidence later.
• Option C is correct because the stated praise communicates criticism.
• Verbal irony occurs when the literal words differ from the intended meaning.
• The device invites the audience to recognize the absurdity of propaganda that creates conclusions first and evidence later.
వివరణ:
Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which stock role does the sausage seller most closely represent?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The sausage seller is socially ordinary but verbally quick, shameless and capable of defeating the politician at his own game.
• Option A is correct because he resembles the comic trickster or resourceful underdog.
• His low status becomes a source of comic power rather than a limitation.
• Classical comedy often overturns hierarchy by allowing an unlikely figure to expose elite pretension.
• Option A is correct because he resembles the comic trickster or resourceful underdog.
• His low status becomes a source of comic power rather than a limitation.
• Classical comedy often overturns hierarchy by allowing an unlikely figure to expose elite pretension.
వివరణ:
Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
What does the final exchange suggest about the assembly?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The politician claims that nonsense cannot be rewarded, but the farmer replies that costlier nonsense has long been rewarded.
• Option D is correct because the line implies an established pattern of bad political judgment.
• The joke extends blame beyond individual leaders to the citizens and institutions that enable them.
• Satire becomes sharper when the audience recognizes itself as part of the problem being mocked.
• Option D is correct because the line implies an established pattern of bad political judgment.
• The joke extends blame beyond individual leaders to the citizens and institutions that enable them.
• Satire becomes sharper when the audience recognizes itself as part of the problem being mocked.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Roman comedy.
LYDUS, a young lover: If my father discovers that I borrowed his ring, I am ruined.
DAVUS, a clever slave: Then we must ensure he discovers something more interesting first.
LYDUS: Such as?
DAVUS: A lost purse, a secret marriage, or a philosopher who charges by the silence.
MISERLY FATHER: Davus! Why is my front door wearing my best cloak?
DAVUS: To welcome you warmly, master. The house has learned manners.
BRAGGART SOLDIER: Stand aside! I have returned from defeating seven armies.
DAVUS: Before breakfast?
BRAGGART SOLDIER: Naturally.
COURTESAN: Then perhaps you can defeat the bill you left here last month.
MISERLY FATHER: My ring is missing, my cloak is hanging on a door, and everyone owes me money.
DAVUS: Excellent. While you count your troubles, we shall look for the ring somewhere far from the young master's hand.
Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which speaker performs the role of the clever-slave stock character?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Davus invents distractions, explains the cloak and manages the attempt to conceal the missing ring.
• Option B is correct because his quick improvisation drives the comic intrigue.
• Lydus depends on him, while the father and soldier are targets of the deception rather than its directors.
• The clever slave is a major stock figure in Roman comedy and often controls events more effectively than freeborn characters.
• Option B is correct because his quick improvisation drives the comic intrigue.
• Lydus depends on him, while the father and soldier are targets of the deception rather than its directors.
• The clever slave is a major stock figure in Roman comedy and often controls events more effectively than freeborn characters.
వివరణ:
Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which feature makes the braggart soldier comic?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The soldier boasts of an impossible series of victories and treats the claim as ordinary.
• Option A is correct because comic exaggeration exposes his vanity and lack of credibility.
• The courtesan's reference to his unpaid bill punctures the heroic image he creates.
• The miles gloriosus, or braggart soldier, is a recognizable Roman comic type defined by boastfulness and cowardly or irresponsible behaviour.
• Option A is correct because comic exaggeration exposes his vanity and lack of credibility.
• The courtesan's reference to his unpaid bill punctures the heroic image he creates.
• The miles gloriosus, or braggart soldier, is a recognizable Roman comic type defined by boastfulness and cowardly or irresponsible behaviour.
వివరణ:
Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
What is the effect of the courtesan's reply to the soldier?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The soldier claims enormous victories, but the courtesan reduces the issue to an ordinary debt he has failed to settle.
• Option D is correct because her practical remark destroys the grandeur of his self-presentation.
• The contrast between armies and a bill creates bathos, a sudden descent from the elevated to the trivial.
• Roman comedy frequently uses such deflation to expose pretension.
• Option D is correct because her practical remark destroys the grandeur of his self-presentation.
• The contrast between armies and a bill creates bathos, a sudden descent from the elevated to the trivial.
• Roman comedy frequently uses such deflation to expose pretension.
వివరణ:
Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which source of humour is most evident in the explanation that the house has learned manners?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Davus explains the cloak on the door by pretending that the house itself can learn social behaviour.
• Option C is correct because the house is personified and the explanation is deliberately ridiculous.
• The excuse is funny precisely because it is linguistically clever but logically impossible.
• Comic servants often survive dangerous moments by producing rapid verbal inventions rather than believable facts.
• Option C is correct because the house is personified and the explanation is deliberately ridiculous.
• The excuse is funny precisely because it is linguistically clever but logically impossible.
• Comic servants often survive dangerous moments by producing rapid verbal inventions rather than believable facts.
వివరణ:
Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which description best captures the overall structure of the passage?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The missing ring creates the initial problem, after which the father, soldier and courtesan add new distractions.
• Option A is correct because the scene develops through accumulating complications managed by Davus.
• The entrances of recognizable stock characters increase pace and comic confusion.
• This structure is typical of intrigue comedy, where concealment, mistaken impressions and improvisation propel the action.
• Option A is correct because the scene develops through accumulating complications managed by Davus.
• The entrances of recognizable stock characters increase pace and comic confusion.
• This structure is typical of intrigue comedy, where concealment, mistaken impressions and improvisation propel the action.
వివరణ:
Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Pride can turn success into the beginning of ruin సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: D. It suggests hubris because he accepts honours associated with the divine సమాధానం: D.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: A. The hidden net tightening సమాధానం: A.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: C. Ominous and restrained సమాధానం: C.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. His need to display superiority despite wise counsel సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. State authority versus familial and sacred duty సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: A. They privately admire the young woman but fear the ruler సమాధానం: A.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Dramatic irony సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. Defiant and morally resolute సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. It arouses pity and fear by showing compelling but inflexible claims moving toward suffering సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: A. She has been betrayed and socially marginalized సమాధానం: A.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: C. An unjust act is being disguised as respectable advancement సమాధానం: C.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: B. It sympathizes with oppression while warning against unjust retaliation సమాధానం: B.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: D. Maternal love versus the impulse to use what she loves as a means of revenge సమాధానం: D.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. Justice can be manipulated by those who possess social power సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Political demagoguery and public gullibility సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. It praises the speaker for openly admitting qualities that should disqualify him సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. Verbal irony సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. The clever low-status trickster who outperforms established authority సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. It has a history of rewarding foolish or wasteful leadership సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: B. Davus సమాధానం: B.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. His exaggerated claim of defeating seven armies before breakfast సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. It deflates heroic boasting by confronting him with an unpaid bill సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: C. Personification combined with an absurd excuse సమాధానం: C.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. A complication accumulates as stock characters enter and the clever slave redirects attention సమాధానం: A.