Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Ben Jonson's Comedy of Humours.
MASTER BALANCE: Every man in this city is governed by one overflowing quality. Sir Vapour speaks until language itself begs for silence, while Captain Flint quarrels with shadows because no living enemy will endure him.
CAPTAIN FLINT: Name the coward who avoids me.
MASTER BALANCE: The entire street, which is why it remains peaceful.
SIR VAPOUR: I have composed a speech on modesty in forty-seven parts.
WIDOW QUICK: Then modesty will die before the second part.
CAPTAIN FLINT: Laugh again, madam, and I shall challenge your household.
WIDOW QUICK: Begin with the broom. It has defeated larger creatures than you.
MASTER BALANCE: Thus excess punishes itself. The talker empties every room, the fighter finds no worthy battle, and the miser guards money he is too frightened to enjoy.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
What principle of characterization structures the passage?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Master Balance explains that each person is governed by one overflowing quality.
• Option B is correct because Sir Vapour embodies excessive talk, Captain Flint excessive aggression and the miser excessive possessiveness.
• This method reflects the Comedy of Humours, in which a dominant temperament distorts behaviour.
• The exaggeration creates both comic recognition and moral criticism.
• Option B is correct because Sir Vapour embodies excessive talk, Captain Flint excessive aggression and the miser excessive possessiveness.
• This method reflects the Comedy of Humours, in which a dominant temperament distorts behaviour.
• The exaggeration creates both comic recognition and moral criticism.
వివరణ:
Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Why is Sir Vapour's proposed speech on modesty comic?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Sir Vapour announces a speech on modesty divided into forty-seven parts.
• Option D is correct because the excessive form contradicts the subject of moderation.
• The humour arises from the gap between what he praises and how he behaves.
• Jonsonian satire frequently exposes characters who remain blind to their own dominant absurdity.
• Option D is correct because the excessive form contradicts the subject of moderation.
• The humour arises from the gap between what he praises and how he behaves.
• Jonsonian satire frequently exposes characters who remain blind to their own dominant absurdity.
వివరణ:
Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
What is the function of Widow Quick's reply about the broom?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Widow Quick treats Captain Flint as a household pest that a broom could defeat.
• Option A is correct because her wit reduces his heroic pretensions to something trivial and ridiculous.
• The reply reverses the power relation by making verbal intelligence stronger than physical threats.
• Comic deflation is an important satirical technique in character comedy.
• Option A is correct because her wit reduces his heroic pretensions to something trivial and ridiculous.
• The reply reverses the power relation by making verbal intelligence stronger than physical threats.
• Comic deflation is an important satirical technique in character comedy.
వివరణ:
Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
What does Master Balance mean when he says that excess punishes itself?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The talker drives listeners away, the fighter finds no opponents and the miser cannot enjoy his wealth.
• Option C is correct because each excessive trait defeats the desire it is meant to satisfy.
• The punishment arises naturally from behaviour rather than from an external judge.
• This structure gives the comedy a corrective and moral dimension.
• Option C is correct because each excessive trait defeats the desire it is meant to satisfy.
• The punishment arises naturally from behaviour rather than from an external judge.
• This structure gives the comedy a corrective and moral dimension.
వివరణ:
Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which statement best captures the passage's satirical purpose?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The passage exaggerates talkativeness, aggression and miserliness until their absurdity becomes unmistakable.
• Option B is correct because the comedy invites audiences to recognize similar follies in social life.
• The characters are amusing, but their behaviour also reveals failures of self-knowledge.
• Comedy of Humours combines entertainment with satirical correction.
• Option B is correct because the comedy invites audiences to recognize similar follies in social life.
• The characters are amusing, but their behaviour also reveals failures of self-knowledge.
• Comedy of Humours combines entertainment with satirical correction.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by John Webster's revenge tragedy.
DUCHESS: This palace has more eyes than windows. Every servant watches, every corridor remembers, and even silence seems purchased by my brothers.
STEWARD: Then speak only where shadows cannot report you.
DUCHESS: Shadows are the court's most faithful informers.
SPY: Your Grace, I bring a gift from those who value your obedience.
DUCHESS: A sealed box is a strange shape for obedience.
SPY: Open it and you will understand their affection.
STEWARD: Do not touch it.
DUCHESS: Fear has already opened it in my mind.
SPY: Your brothers wish only to preserve the honour of their blood.
DUCHESS: Men who speak most loudly of honour often require darkness to protect their deeds.
Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
What atmosphere dominates the passage?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The duchess describes watching servants, remembering corridors and purchased silence.
• Option A is correct because the setting is defined by suspicion, spying and concealed violence.
• The sealed box intensifies the sense of an approaching threat.
• Such oppressive court environments are characteristic of Jacobean revenge tragedy.
• Option A is correct because the setting is defined by suspicion, spying and concealed violence.
• The sealed box intensifies the sense of an approaching threat.
• Such oppressive court environments are characteristic of Jacobean revenge tragedy.
వివరణ:
Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
What does the duchess imply by saying that fear has opened the box in her mind?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The duchess does not need to open the object to recognize its probable purpose.
• Option C is correct because prolonged intimidation has trained her imagination to anticipate violence.
• The line reveals psychological suffering as well as physical danger.
• Fear becomes a form of inward torture produced by the corrupt court.
• Option C is correct because prolonged intimidation has trained her imagination to anticipate violence.
• The line reveals psychological suffering as well as physical danger.
• Fear becomes a form of inward torture produced by the corrupt court.
వివరణ:
Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which idea is exposed by the spy's reference to family honour?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The spy claims that the brothers seek to preserve honour while threatening the duchess's freedom and safety.
• Option D is correct because honour functions as a respectable name for domination.
• The duchess exposes the contradiction between public moral language and hidden violence.
• Jacobean tragedy often depicts aristocratic ideals as masks for corruption.
• Option D is correct because honour functions as a respectable name for domination.
• The duchess exposes the contradiction between public moral language and hidden violence.
• Jacobean tragedy often depicts aristocratic ideals as masks for corruption.
వివరణ:
Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
How is the duchess primarily characterized?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The duchess immediately recognizes the palace's surveillance and questions the spy's language.
• Option B is correct because she understands the threat but refuses to accept its moral disguise.
• Her sharp replies demonstrate intellectual resistance even when physical power is limited.
• This combination of vulnerability and dignity strengthens the tragic effect.
• Option B is correct because she understands the threat but refuses to accept its moral disguise.
• Her sharp replies demonstrate intellectual resistance even when physical power is limited.
• This combination of vulnerability and dignity strengthens the tragic effect.
వివరణ:
Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which feature most closely links the passage to revenge tragedy?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The passage presents a court dominated by surveillance, coercion and concealed threats against a noble victim.
• Option A is correct because revenge tragedy frequently develops within morally diseased political environments.
• The atmosphere prepares for violence and retaliation even before either occurs openly.
• The threat to the duchess suggests a tragic chain in which cruelty may generate further vengeance.
• Option A is correct because revenge tragedy frequently develops within morally diseased political environments.
• The atmosphere prepares for violence and retaliation even before either occurs openly.
• The threat to the duchess suggests a tragic chain in which cruelty may generate further vengeance.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Thomas Middleton's city comedy.
GOLDSMITH: Your account shows three houses, two warehouses and a country estate, yet you still borrow money for dinner.
GALLANT: Property is wealth only when someone else believes you own it.
GOLDSMITH: Do you own these estates?
GALLANT: I own the confidence with which I describe them.
WIDOW: This gentleman tells me that marriage would protect my fortune.
GOLDSMITH: From whom?
WIDOW: From gentlemen exactly like him, apparently.
GALLANT: Madam wounds me.
WIDOW: Then your feelings are the first thing you possess without borrowing.
GOLDSMITH: The city sells credit as though it were character.
WIDOW: And men purchase wives as though marriage were debt collection.
Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
What deception does the gallant practise?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The gallant lists properties he does not clearly own and admits that his confidence is his real asset.
• Option C is correct because his social position depends upon performance and credit rather than actual wealth.
• His deception exploits a commercial culture in which appearance can temporarily replace substance.
• City comedy often satirizes unstable identities created by money and reputation.
• Option C is correct because his social position depends upon performance and credit rather than actual wealth.
• His deception exploits a commercial culture in which appearance can temporarily replace substance.
• City comedy often satirizes unstable identities created by money and reputation.
వివరణ:
Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
What does the widow's reply about his feelings suggest?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The gallant claims to be emotionally wounded, and the widow says that his feelings are his first unborrowed possession.
• Option A is correct because she turns his complaint into a further exposure of his financial fraud.
• Her wit prevents him from controlling the conversation through theatrical emotion.
• The exchange characterizes her as socially perceptive and verbally independent.
• Option A is correct because she turns his complaint into a further exposure of his financial fraud.
• Her wit prevents him from controlling the conversation through theatrical emotion.
• The exchange characterizes her as socially perceptive and verbally independent.
వివరణ:
Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which social practice is criticized through the proposed marriage?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The gallant presents marriage as protection for the widow's fortune, although he appears interested in acquiring it.
• Option B is correct because courtship is treated as a commercial strategy.
• The widow recognizes that the supposed protector resembles the very threat he describes.
• City comedy frequently examines the interaction of desire, property and economic calculation.
• Option B is correct because courtship is treated as a commercial strategy.
• The widow recognizes that the supposed protector resembles the very threat he describes.
• City comedy frequently examines the interaction of desire, property and economic calculation.
వివరణ:
Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
What is meant by the claim that the city sells credit as though it were character?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The gallant receives social credibility through claims of property and the confidence of others.
• Option D is correct because commercial credit becomes a substitute for moral character.
• The passage exposes how economic appearance can influence social judgement.
• This is a central concern of urban satire in Jacobean city comedy.
• Option D is correct because commercial credit becomes a substitute for moral character.
• The passage exposes how economic appearance can influence social judgement.
• This is a central concern of urban satire in Jacobean city comedy.
వివరణ:
Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
What is the principal target of the passage's satire?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Credit, property, marriage and personal reputation are repeatedly treated as forms of exchange.
• Option C is correct because the passage satirizes urban relationships shaped by commercial calculation.
• The gallant markets an invented identity, while the widow is approached as a source of capital.
• Middletonian city comedy exposes greed without separating it from the wider economic system that rewards deception.
• Option C is correct because the passage satirizes urban relationships shaped by commercial calculation.
• The gallant markets an invented identity, while the widow is approached as a source of capital.
• Middletonian city comedy exposes greed without separating it from the wider economic system that rewards deception.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by William Congreve's comedy of manners.
MIRABELLE: You accuse me of loving freedom only because I refuse to exchange one form of captivity for another at the altar.
BELINDA: Marriage is not captivity unless the husband imagines affection gives him administrative powers.
MIRABELLE: Then let us negotiate peace before declaring lifelong alliance.
BELINDA: I shall keep my letters, my friends and the right to be silent without having my silence interpreted.
MIRABELLE: I shall retain one room where visitors may believe I am at home while the servant truthfully says I am not available.
BELINDA: You demand privacy but call mine secrecy.
MIRABELLE: A masculine privilege is merely a feminine offence wearing a better tailor.
BELINDA: That may be the first honest sentence you have spoken.
MIRABELLE: Honesty is safest when disguised as wit.
Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
What are Mirabelle and Belinda primarily negotiating?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The characters discuss letters, friends, silence, visitors and privacy within a proposed marital relationship.
• Option D is correct because they seek to define marriage without surrendering individual autonomy.
• Their conversation treats courtship as a sophisticated negotiation rather than sentimental submission.
• Such contractual wit is characteristic of Restoration comedy of manners.
• Option D is correct because they seek to define marriage without surrendering individual autonomy.
• Their conversation treats courtship as a sophisticated negotiation rather than sentimental submission.
• Such contractual wit is characteristic of Restoration comedy of manners.
వివరణ:
Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
What double standard does Belinda identify?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Belinda observes that Mirabelle claims privacy for himself while applying the suspicious term 'secrecy' to hers.
• Option B is correct because similar conduct is judged differently according to gender.
• Her response exposes the unequal assumptions beneath polished courtship.
• Comedy of manners often uses verbal conflict to examine sexual politics.
• Option B is correct because similar conduct is judged differently according to gender.
• Her response exposes the unequal assumptions beneath polished courtship.
• Comedy of manners often uses verbal conflict to examine sexual politics.
వివరణ:
Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
What is the effect of Mirabelle's remark about tailoring?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Mirabelle compares masculine privilege and feminine offence as the same behaviour dressed differently.
• Option A is correct because the metaphor exposes social judgement as artificial and stylistic.
• His wit acknowledges the force of Belinda's criticism without abandoning the comic tone.
• The line illustrates how Restoration dialogue converts social analysis into epigrammatic language.
• Option A is correct because the metaphor exposes social judgement as artificial and stylistic.
• His wit acknowledges the force of Belinda's criticism without abandoning the comic tone.
• The line illustrates how Restoration dialogue converts social analysis into epigrammatic language.
వివరణ:
Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which feature most clearly identifies the passage as comedy of manners?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The scene develops through polished debate, paradox and clever reversals about marriage and gender.
• Option C is correct because comedy of manners satirizes elite behaviour through sophisticated conversation.
• The action depends less on physical comedy than on verbal intelligence.
• Courtship becomes a means of exposing the rules and hypocrisies of fashionable society.
• Option C is correct because comedy of manners satirizes elite behaviour through sophisticated conversation.
• The action depends less on physical comedy than on verbal intelligence.
• Courtship becomes a means of exposing the rules and hypocrisies of fashionable society.
వివరణ:
Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
What does the final statement about honesty imply?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Mirabelle says that honesty is safest when concealed within wit.
• Option D is correct because polished humour allows difficult truths to be spoken without direct confrontation.
• The statement also acknowledges that social conversation depends upon performance.
• Restoration comedy repeatedly tests whether wit reveals sincerity or merely supplies a more elegant disguise.
• Option D is correct because polished humour allows difficult truths to be spoken without direct confrontation.
• The statement also acknowledges that social conversation depends upon performance.
• Restoration comedy repeatedly tests whether wit reveals sincerity or merely supplies a more elegant disguise.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by William Wycherley's social satire.
COUNTRY WIFE: In the country, a husband's jealousy guards one door. In the city, reputation guards a hundred, and every neighbour carries a key.
CITY LADY: Reputation is simply virtue with witnesses.
COUNTRY WIFE: Then virtue must be exhausted from performing all day.
JEALOUS HUSBAND: I forbid my wife to speak with fashionable men.
RAKE: A wise precaution. Nothing increases a man's interest like being officially forbidden.
CITY LADY: And nothing advertises a wife's beauty like a husband announcing that it must be hidden.
JEALOUS HUSBAND: You make a joke of honour.
RAKE: Society did that before I arrived. I merely repeat the punchline.
COUNTRY WIFE: Here modesty is spoken loudly, desire whispers, and scandal hears both.
Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
What distinction does the country wife draw between rural and urban control?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The country wife contrasts one jealous husband with a city in which neighbours collectively monitor reputation.
• Option B is correct because urban control extends beyond the household into fashionable society.
• The image of many doors and keys suggests constant observation.
• Social satire exposes reputation as a disciplinary system rather than a simple record of virtue.
• Option B is correct because urban control extends beyond the household into fashionable society.
• The image of many doors and keys suggests constant observation.
• Social satire exposes reputation as a disciplinary system rather than a simple record of virtue.
వివరణ:
Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Why does the rake call the husband's prohibition a useful precaution?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The rake observes that official prohibition makes a person more interesting.
• Option A is correct because his apparent praise is ironic.
• The husband's attempt at control may produce the opposite of its intended effect.
• Such reversals are central to Restoration satire of jealousy and sexual regulation.
• Option A is correct because his apparent praise is ironic.
• The husband's attempt at control may produce the opposite of its intended effect.
• Such reversals are central to Restoration satire of jealousy and sexual regulation.
వివరణ:
Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
What does the city lady mean by saying that concealment advertises beauty?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The city lady argues that the husband's announcement draws attention to the very beauty he wishes to conceal.
• Option C is correct because secrecy becomes a form of advertisement.
• The remark exposes the self-defeating nature of possessive jealousy.
• The comedy turns patriarchal control into a source of public curiosity.
• Option C is correct because secrecy becomes a form of advertisement.
• The remark exposes the self-defeating nature of possessive jealousy.
• The comedy turns patriarchal control into a source of public curiosity.
వివరణ:
Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
What does the rake's reference to repeating the punchline imply?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The rake says that society made honour a joke before he arrived.
• Option D is correct because he presents himself as an observer and performer of existing hypocrisy.
• His defence does not make him morally innocent, but it broadens the satire beyond one libertine.
• Wycherleyan comedy often implicates both the rake and the respectable society that condemns him.
• Option D is correct because he presents himself as an observer and performer of existing hypocrisy.
• His defence does not make him morally innocent, but it broadens the satire beyond one libertine.
• Wycherleyan comedy often implicates both the rake and the respectable society that condemns him.
వివరణ:
Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which interpretation best captures the passage's sexual politics?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The husband restricts speech, neighbours monitor reputation and concealment increases public interest.
• Option A is correct because the passage reveals both the oppressive and self-defeating effects of sexual control.
• Women are judged through public performance, while male jealousy claims the language of honour.
• The satire questions a social order that loudly praises modesty while privately sustaining desire and scandal.
• Option A is correct because the passage reveals both the oppressive and self-defeating effects of sexual control.
• Women are judged through public performance, while male jealousy claims the language of honour.
• The satire questions a social order that loudly praises modesty while privately sustaining desire and scandal.
వివరణ:
Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Each character is dominated by an exaggerated ruling disposition సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: D. His excessively long speech contradicts the restraint associated with modesty సమాధానం: D.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: A. It deflates the captain's aggressive self-image through ridicule సమాధానం: A.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: C. Each dominant obsession produces consequences that frustrate its owner సమాధానం: C.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. It exposes social folly by magnifying habitual weaknesses సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: A. Surveillance, menace and courtly corruption సమాధానం: A.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. She imagines its threatening contents before physically examining it సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. The language of honour is being used to justify coercion సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. Perceptive and courageous despite intimidation సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: A. A cheerful marriage restores social harmony సమాధానం: A.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. He creates an appearance of wealth through confident false claims సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: A. She punctures his self-pity by reminding him that everything else is borrowed సమాధానం: A.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: B. Marriage as a means of financial acquisition and protection సమాధానం: B.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: D. Financial reputation is mistaken for genuine personal worth సమాధానం: D.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. The simplicity of rural agricultural customs సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. The ownership of a city warehouse సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. Women may speak publicly while men must remain silent సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: A. It proves that he intends to become a tailor సమాధానం: A.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. Refined verbal wit exposes fashionable social conventions సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. Belinda has misunderstood every previous remark సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: B. Urban women possess complete independence సమాధానం: B.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. He ironically suggests that prohibition will increase curiosity and desire సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. Public efforts to hide something can make others more curious about it సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. The society he mocks is already absurd before he comments on it సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. It shows how jealousy and reputation restrict women while often intensifying the desires they attempt to control సమాధానం: A.