Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners.
LADY ARABELLA: Society forgives a man for having no principles, provided he has excellent manners while abandoning them.
MR. VALE: Principles are valuable, madam, but one should never carry so many that they spoil the line of one's coat.
LADY ARABELLA: Your philosophy is admirably tailored.
MISS CLARA: Mr. Vale has proposed to me twice under two different names.
MR. VALE: Consistency is the last refuge of people without imagination.
LADY ARABELLA: And marriage is the first refuge of people whose imagination has become expensive.
MISS CLARA: I require honesty.
MR. VALE: Certainly. Shall I offer it before or after the wedding?
LADY ARABELLA: After, naturally. Before marriage, honesty might influence the decision.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
What is the principal target of the passage's satire?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The characters treat principles, honesty and marriage as matters of appearance and convenience.
• Option B is correct because the dialogue exposes a society more concerned with manners and style than moral consistency.
• The other options introduce subjects not developed in the passage.
• Wildean comedy often uses elegant conversation to reveal the absurdity beneath respectable social behaviour.
• Option B is correct because the dialogue exposes a society more concerned with manners and style than moral consistency.
• The other options introduce subjects not developed in the passage.
• Wildean comedy often uses elegant conversation to reveal the absurdity beneath respectable social behaviour.
వివరణ:
Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
What does Mr. Vale's remark about principles and the line of a coat imply?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Mr. Vale suggests that principles are acceptable only when they do not disturb his fashionable appearance.
• Option D is correct because the metaphor reduces morality to an accessory subordinate to style.
• His speech is witty, but the wit reveals his superficiality.
• Comedy of manners frequently exposes moral emptiness through polished and paradoxical language.
• Option D is correct because the metaphor reduces morality to an accessory subordinate to style.
• His speech is witty, but the wit reveals his superficiality.
• Comedy of manners frequently exposes moral emptiness through polished and paradoxical language.
వివరణ:
Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Why is Mr. Vale's defence of using two names comic?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Mr. Vale responds to an accusation of deception by attacking consistency as unimaginative.
• Option A is correct because he converts dishonesty into a supposed sign of creativity.
• The reversal allows him to avoid moral responsibility while sounding intellectually superior.
• Such epigrammatic inversion is characteristic of Wilde's dramatic wit.
• Option A is correct because he converts dishonesty into a supposed sign of creativity.
• The reversal allows him to avoid moral responsibility while sounding intellectually superior.
• Such epigrammatic inversion is characteristic of Wilde's dramatic wit.
వివరణ:
Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
What dramatic conflict is established between Miss Clara and Mr. Vale?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Miss Clara directly asks for honesty, whereas Mr. Vale treats honesty as something that can be scheduled for convenience.
• Option C is correct because their conflict concerns sincerity versus performative cleverness.
• The contrast creates comic tension while also testing whether genuine affection can survive social deception.
• The exchange turns courtship into a debate about identity and truth.
• Option C is correct because their conflict concerns sincerity versus performative cleverness.
• The contrast creates comic tension while also testing whether genuine affection can survive social deception.
• The exchange turns courtship into a debate about identity and truth.
వివరణ:
Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
What is the effect of Lady Arabella's final remark?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Lady Arabella says honesty should come after marriage because earlier truth might affect the decision.
• Option B is correct because her apparent practical advice exposes the absurdity of social arrangements built on concealment.
• The line uses verbal irony to criticize rather than endorse dishonesty.
• Its polished wit supplies a comic ending while reinforcing the passage's social satire.
• Option B is correct because her apparent practical advice exposes the absurdity of social arrangements built on concealment.
• The line uses verbal irony to criticize rather than endorse dishonesty.
• Its polished wit supplies a comic ending while reinforcing the passage's social satire.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by George Bernard Shaw's problem plays.
FACTORY OWNER: I pay the legal wage, provide a bell to regulate the day and donate blankets each winter. What more can justice require?
WORKER: Justice might begin by asking why we need your blankets after producing your profits.
FACTORY OWNER: Sentiment cannot manage industry.
WORKER: Nor can industry excuse every absence of sentiment.
REFORMER: The law says the contract is free.
WORKER: A hungry person signs freely in the way a drowning person chooses the nearest rope.
FACTORY OWNER: Without capital, there would be no employment.
REFORMER: Without labour, capital would remain a number in a book.
WORKER: You ask whether the factory is profitable. I ask what kind of people its profit requires us to become.
Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
What social problem lies at the centre of the passage?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The factory owner emphasizes wages and profit, while the worker questions poverty, working conditions and dependence.
• Option C is correct because the scene examines economic inequality within industrial employment.
• The passage does not reject industry itself; it questions the moral structure of its benefits and burdens.
• Shaw's problem plays often transform social issues into argumentative dramatic conflicts.
• Option C is correct because the scene examines economic inequality within industrial employment.
• The passage does not reject industry itself; it questions the moral structure of its benefits and burdens.
• Shaw's problem plays often transform social issues into argumentative dramatic conflicts.
వివరణ:
Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
What does the worker's comparison of the contract to a drowning person's choice suggest?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The worker compares signing under hunger to grabbing the nearest rope while drowning.
• Option A is correct because urgent need limits meaningful freedom of choice.
• The law may describe the contract as voluntary, but the metaphor reveals unequal bargaining conditions.
• The distinction between formal freedom and practical compulsion is central to the passage's social criticism.
• Option A is correct because urgent need limits meaningful freedom of choice.
• The law may describe the contract as voluntary, but the metaphor reveals unequal bargaining conditions.
• The distinction between formal freedom and practical compulsion is central to the passage's social criticism.
వివరణ:
Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
How does the reformer challenge the factory owner's defence of capital?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The owner presents capital as the source of employment, but the reformer observes that capital without labour remains inactive.
• Option D is correct because the response restores workers to the economic equation.
• It does not deny the role of investment; it rejects the owner's one-sided account.
• Shavian dialogue often advances through competing propositions that expose hidden assumptions.
• Option D is correct because the response restores workers to the economic equation.
• It does not deny the role of investment; it rejects the owner's one-sided account.
• Shavian dialogue often advances through competing propositions that expose hidden assumptions.
వివరణ:
Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which description best captures the worker's tone?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The worker answers each claim with a carefully constructed counterargument.
• Option B is correct because the language is controlled while directly questioning the morality of the factory system.
• The worker does not merely express anger; the speeches reinterpret charity, freedom and profit.
• This argumentative tone is suited to the intellectual conflict of a problem play.
• Option B is correct because the language is controlled while directly questioning the morality of the factory system.
• The worker does not merely express anger; the speeches reinterpret charity, freedom and profit.
• This argumentative tone is suited to the intellectual conflict of a problem play.
వివరణ:
Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
What larger question is raised by the worker's final statement?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The worker shifts attention from the amount of profit to the human qualities demanded by its production.
• Option C is correct because the final question evaluates economic success through ethical consequences.
• Profitability alone is treated as an incomplete measure of social value.
• The passage therefore moves from a specific labour dispute to a broader moral examination of industrial society.
• Option C is correct because the final question evaluates economic success through ethical consequences.
• Profitability alone is treated as an incomplete measure of social value.
• The passage therefore moves from a specific labour dispute to a broader moral examination of industrial society.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by W.B. Yeats and the symbolic drama of the Irish Literary Revival.
OLD WOMAN: I have walked the western roads so long that the stones remember my feet, though the young men no longer remember my name.
YOUNG MAN: Your cloak is torn. Come to the fire before the wedding begins.
OLD WOMAN: I had four green fields once. Strangers entered, measured them and taught my children to call the new boundaries permanent.
BRIDE: Do not fill his mind with old grief. Tomorrow we begin our household.
OLD WOMAN: Every household stands upon a piece of earth, and earth remembers what happiness tries to forget.
YOUNG MAN: What would restore your fields?
OLD WOMAN: Not words spoken safely beside a wedding fire.
BRIDE: She asks you to abandon life for a dream.
OLD WOMAN: Some dreams are names that history has not yet permitted the waking world to use.
Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
What does the old woman most plausibly symbolize?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The old woman remembers four green fields taken and renamed by strangers.
• Option A is correct because she personifies a dispossessed nation appealing to younger generations.
• Her age suggests historical memory, while her journey connects private sacrifice with national identity.
• Yeatsian symbolic drama often represents Ireland through a compelling female figure.
• Option A is correct because she personifies a dispossessed nation appealing to younger generations.
• Her age suggests historical memory, while her journey connects private sacrifice with national identity.
• Yeatsian symbolic drama often represents Ireland through a compelling female figure.
వివరణ:
Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
What conflict does the wedding setting create?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The bride anticipates a shared household, while the old woman calls the young man toward historical and national obligation.
• Option C is correct because marriage represents private continuity and the old woman represents public sacrifice.
• The festive setting intensifies the cost of answering the nationalist appeal.
• Dramatic conflict emerges because both domestic love and political commitment possess emotional force.
• Option C is correct because marriage represents private continuity and the old woman represents public sacrifice.
• The festive setting intensifies the cost of answering the nationalist appeal.
• Dramatic conflict emerges because both domestic love and political commitment possess emotional force.
వివరణ:
Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
What is implied by the old woman's statement that earth remembers?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The old woman connects the household's land with an unresolved history of loss.
• Option B is correct because present happiness cannot entirely erase the political memory attached to the soil.
• The personification of earth gives landscape a historical and emotional consciousness.
• In Revival drama, place often becomes a repository of collective memory.
• Option B is correct because present happiness cannot entirely erase the political memory attached to the soil.
• The personification of earth gives landscape a historical and emotional consciousness.
• In Revival drama, place often becomes a repository of collective memory.
వివరణ:
Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Why does the bride describe the old woman's appeal as a dream?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The bride contrasts the uncertain national cause with the concrete household she and the young man are about to begin.
• Option D is correct because she treats political aspiration as distant and potentially destructive.
• Her response supplies an alternative perspective rather than simple cowardice.
• The passage therefore dramatizes the human cost hidden within heroic nationalist symbolism.
• Option D is correct because she treats political aspiration as distant and potentially destructive.
• Her response supplies an alternative perspective rather than simple cowardice.
• The passage therefore dramatizes the human cost hidden within heroic nationalist symbolism.
వివరణ:
Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
What does the old woman's final statement suggest about political imagination?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The old woman says that some dreams are names for realities history has not yet allowed.
• Option A is correct because imagination can anticipate a political condition absent from the present world.
• The line turns the accusation of dreaming into a defence of visionary nationalism.
• Symbolic drama often gives imagined possibilities the emotional force of future history.
• Option A is correct because imagination can anticipate a political condition absent from the present world.
• The line turns the accusation of dreaming into a defence of visionary nationalism.
• Symbolic drama often gives imagined possibilities the emotional force of future history.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Lady Gregory's Irish folk drama.
WIDOW: The landlord's agent says this house belongs to the estate, though my grandfather built the wall and my mother planted the ash beside it.
NEIGHBOUR: Paper has a long memory when it remembers rent and a short one when it remembers labour.
WIDOW: The paper speaks English. The stones answer in Irish.
AGENT: I did not come to debate poetry. The law requires payment by Friday.
NEIGHBOUR: The law travels in a fine carriage. Hunger walks behind it.
AGENT: You mistake insolence for patriotism.
WIDOW: And you mistake obedience for peace.
NEIGHBOUR: Leave us the house, and we may praise your mercy.
AGENT: Mercy is not entered in the account book.
WIDOW: That is why the account is incomplete.
Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
What does the conflict over the house primarily represent?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The agent relies on estate law and rent, while the widow invokes family labour, memory and occupation.
• Option D is correct because the dispute contrasts formal property rights with lived belonging.
• The house is therefore both a material dwelling and a symbol of historical connection to the land.
• Irish Revival drama often links local conflict with broader questions of dispossession and identity.
• Option D is correct because the dispute contrasts formal property rights with lived belonging.
• The house is therefore both a material dwelling and a symbol of historical connection to the land.
• Irish Revival drama often links local conflict with broader questions of dispossession and identity.
వివరణ:
Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
What does the neighbour mean by saying that paper has a selective memory?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The neighbour says that paper remembers rent but forgets the work invested in the property.
• Option B is correct because official documentation recognizes only the claims useful to legal authority.
• The remark exposes the partial nature of supposedly objective records.
• Folk wit converts a political criticism into a memorable image.
• Option B is correct because official documentation recognizes only the claims useful to legal authority.
• The remark exposes the partial nature of supposedly objective records.
• Folk wit converts a political criticism into a memorable image.
వివరణ:
Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
What is suggested by the contrast between English paper and Irish stones?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• English is associated with written legal authority, while Irish is associated with the land and inherited memory.
• Option C is correct because language marks competing systems of legitimacy.
• The contrast gives physical objects a cultural voice without requiring literal speech.
• Language becomes part of the nationalist meaning of the dramatic conflict.
• Option C is correct because language marks competing systems of legitimacy.
• The contrast gives physical objects a cultural voice without requiring literal speech.
• Language becomes part of the nationalist meaning of the dramatic conflict.
వివరణ:
Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
How does the widow reinterpret the agent's idea of peace?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The widow tells the agent that he mistakes obedience for peace.
• Option A is correct because silence produced by power does not necessarily indicate consent or justice.
• Her reply transforms a local rent dispute into a political critique of domination.
• The concise dialogue gives moral authority to a character with little institutional power.
• Option A is correct because silence produced by power does not necessarily indicate consent or justice.
• Her reply transforms a local rent dispute into a political critique of domination.
• The concise dialogue gives moral authority to a character with little institutional power.
వివరణ:
Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
What does the final exchange reveal about the account book?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The agent says that mercy has no place in the account book, and the widow calls the account incomplete.
• Option D is correct because purely financial records cannot measure moral obligations.
• Her response does not deny the existence of the debt; it challenges the adequacy of the system judging it.
• The scene combines social criticism with the plain, pointed dialogue associated with folk drama.
• Option D is correct because purely financial records cannot measure moral obligations.
• Her response does not deny the existence of the debt; it challenges the adequacy of the system judging it.
• The scene combines social criticism with the plain, pointed dialogue associated with folk drama.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by J.M. Synge's rural Irish drama.
YOUNG STRANGER: Beyond the black hill, I fought a giant of a man and left him stretched beneath the moon.
PUBLICAN'S DAUGHTER: A hero should have blood upon his coat.
YOUNG STRANGER: The rain washed it away.
OLD FARMER: Strange rain. It cleaned the coat but left the story shining.
PUBLICAN'S DAUGHTER: Tell it again. Each time you speak, the giant grows taller.
YOUNG STRANGER: Great deeds require a proper listener.
OLD FARMER: Or a forgetful one.
MESSENGER: A man matching your giant has entered the village asking for his runaway son.
YOUNG STRANGER: The dead travel quickly in this country.
PUBLICAN'S DAUGHTER: Perhaps your courage travelled faster than the truth.
Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Why does the village initially find the stranger attractive?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The publican's daughter repeatedly invites the stranger to tell his tale and treats him as a possible hero.
• Option B is correct because his violent narrative creates an exciting identity larger than ordinary rural life.
• The villagers respond to the story's imaginative power before testing its factual accuracy.
• Synge's drama frequently examines the relation between storytelling, reputation and communal desire.
• Option B is correct because his violent narrative creates an exciting identity larger than ordinary rural life.
• The villagers respond to the story's imaginative power before testing its factual accuracy.
• Synge's drama frequently examines the relation between storytelling, reputation and communal desire.
వివరణ:
Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
What does the old farmer's remark about the rain imply?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The stranger explains the lack of blood by referring to rain, and the farmer questions the convenient result.
• Option A is correct because the clean coat weakens the credibility of the violent tale.
• The farmer's irony contrasts the missing evidence with the increasingly impressive story.
• His scepticism prepares the audience for the later exposure of exaggeration.
• Option A is correct because the clean coat weakens the credibility of the violent tale.
• The farmer's irony contrasts the missing evidence with the increasingly impressive story.
• His scepticism prepares the audience for the later exposure of exaggeration.
వివరణ:
Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
What is suggested when the giant grows taller with each retelling?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The publican's daughter notices that the opponent becomes greater whenever the story is repeated.
• Option C is correct because heroic reputation is being constructed through performance rather than fixed fact.
• The audience is not passive; its desire for excitement encourages embellishment.
• The line reveals how communities help create the myths they later believe.
• Option C is correct because heroic reputation is being constructed through performance rather than fixed fact.
• The audience is not passive; its desire for excitement encourages embellishment.
• The line reveals how communities help create the myths they later believe.
వివరణ:
Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
What dramatic reversal is introduced by the messenger?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The messenger reports that a man resembling the alleged victim has entered the village.
• Option B is correct because the foundation of the stranger's heroic identity is suddenly threatened.
• The reversal converts admiration into uncertainty and potential ridicule.
• Dramatic irony increases as the audience sees the gap between the performed legend and probable reality.
• Option B is correct because the foundation of the stranger's heroic identity is suddenly threatened.
• The reversal converts admiration into uncertainty and potential ridicule.
• Dramatic irony increases as the audience sees the gap between the performed legend and probable reality.
వివరణ:
Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which interpretation best explains the daughter's final statement?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The daughter contrasts courage with truth after learning that the supposed victim may still be alive.
• Option A is correct because the stranger's heroic image has developed more quickly than verification of his actions.
• Her remark is ironic and marks a change from fascination to doubt.
• The passage uses lively rural dialogue to explore the instability of identity created through storytelling.
• Option A is correct because the stranger's heroic image has developed more quickly than verification of his actions.
• Her remark is ironic and marks a change from fascination to doubt.
• The passage uses lively rural dialogue to explore the instability of identity created through storytelling.
వివరణ:
Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. The hypocrisy and artificial values of fashionable society సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: D. He values social appearance more than ethical commitment సమాధానం: D.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: A. He disguises deception as imaginative freedom సమాధానం: A.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: C. She demands sincerity while he treats deception as a social game సమాధానం: C.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. It ironically suggests that truth is dangerous because it may disrupt a convenient marriage సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. The unequal relationship between industrial profit and workers' welfare సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: A. Economic necessity can make apparently free consent coercive సమాధానం: A.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. By emphasizing that labour is equally necessary for the creation of value సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. Reasoned but morally challenging సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. Whether economic success can be justified when it damages human character సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: A. Ireland dispossessed and calling for national recovery సమాధానం: A.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: C. A conflict between private domestic happiness and nationalist sacrifice సమాధానం: C.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: B. Historical dispossession persists beneath present attempts at happiness సమాధానం: B.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: D. She views national restoration as unreal compared with immediate personal life సమాధానం: D.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. An imagined national future may challenge what present history declares possible సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. A struggle between legal ownership and inherited communal attachment సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. Official documents record financial obligations while ignoring generations of labour సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. Colonial legal language conflicts with local cultural memory సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. She suggests that enforced obedience should not be mistaken for genuine social harmony సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. Its financial calculations exclude human values such as mercy and justice సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: B. His dramatic story allows listeners to imagine him as a heroic rebel సమాధానం: B.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. The absence of physical evidence makes the stranger's story doubtful సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. Repetition and audience enthusiasm encourage the story to become more exaggerated సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. The supposedly dead man may be alive and searching for the stranger సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. The stranger's reputation for courage may have advanced beyond the facts supporting it సమాధానం: A.