Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Eugene O'Neill's modern tragedy.
CAPTAIN: The sea gave this family bread, and each of you speaks of it as though it were a thief.
ELDER SON: It took you from every meal and returned you only when silence had occupied your chair.
CAPTAIN: A man works where work is found.
MOTHER: A man may also hide where excuses are respected.
YOUNGER SON: I signed aboard because I wanted to understand him.
ELDER SON: You signed aboard because his absence has become the only inheritance he knows how to give.
CAPTAIN: Do not make tragedy from duty.
MOTHER: Tragedy began when duty became the name we gave every wound.
YOUNGER SON: The tide leaves tonight. If I stay, I become the son who judged you. If I go, I become the man I judged.
CAPTAIN: Then perhaps the sea has finally taught you what fathers cannot say.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
What central conflict does the younger son face?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The younger son says that staying makes him the son who judges, while leaving may turn him into the man he has judged.
• Option B is correct because he is caught between resisting and inheriting his father's way of life.
• His decision is therefore psychological and generational rather than merely occupational.
• Modern tragedy often locates destructive conflict within family inheritance and repeated behaviour.
• Option B is correct because he is caught between resisting and inheriting his father's way of life.
• His decision is therefore psychological and generational rather than merely occupational.
• Modern tragedy often locates destructive conflict within family inheritance and repeated behaviour.
వివరణ:
Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
What does the mother imply when she says that the captain hides where excuses are respected?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The captain explains his absence through the necessity of work, but the mother interprets that explanation as concealment.
• Option D is correct because socially respected duty becomes a defence against emotional accountability.
• She does not deny that he worked; she questions what work allowed him to avoid.
• The subtext reveals resentment beneath apparently practical family dialogue.
• Option D is correct because socially respected duty becomes a defence against emotional accountability.
• She does not deny that he worked; she questions what work allowed him to avoid.
• The subtext reveals resentment beneath apparently practical family dialogue.
వివరణ:
Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
What does the sea principally symbolize in the passage?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The sea feeds the family, removes the father and now attracts the younger son.
• Option A is correct because it carries economic, psychological and generational meanings simultaneously.
• It is neither wholly destructive nor wholly liberating.
• O'Neillian symbolism often gives the sea an ambivalent power connected with freedom, fate and human isolation.
• Option A is correct because it carries economic, psychological and generational meanings simultaneously.
• It is neither wholly destructive nor wholly liberating.
• O'Neillian symbolism often gives the sea an ambivalent power connected with freedom, fate and human isolation.
వివరణ:
Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which tone dominates the mother's speeches?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The mother describes silence occupying the captain's chair and duty becoming a name for wounds.
• Option C is correct because her language is emotionally wounded yet sharply analytical.
• She exposes the cost of the captain's behaviour without sentimentalizing the family.
• The bitterness arises from long experience rather than momentary anger.
• Option C is correct because her language is emotionally wounded yet sharply analytical.
• She exposes the cost of the captain's behaviour without sentimentalizing the family.
• The bitterness arises from long experience rather than momentary anger.
వివరణ:
Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Why may the captain be interpreted as a modern tragic figure?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The captain's labour provides material survival, but his repeated absence damages the family.
• Option B is correct because a legitimate responsibility becomes destructive when used to avoid other obligations.
• He is neither a classical king nor a simple villain; his tragedy emerges from ordinary pressures and personal limitations.
• Modern tragedy frequently finds tragic consequence within common family and economic life.
• Option B is correct because a legitimate responsibility becomes destructive when used to avoid other obligations.
• He is neither a classical king nor a simple villain; his tragedy emerges from ordinary pressures and personal limitations.
• Modern tragedy frequently finds tragic consequence within common family and economic life.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Arthur Miller's social tragedy.
SALESMAN: Twenty years ago they knew my name in every office from here to Boston.
WIFE: They knew the samples you carried. I am not certain they ever knew you.
SALESMAN: A man becomes himself through the doors that open when he enters.
OLDER SON: Then what is he when the doors close?
YOUNGER SON: The company says there is no permanent territory for anyone now.
SALESMAN: Permanent? I gave them the best years of my face.
OLDER SON: You taught us that being admired was the same as being useful.
SALESMAN: Admiration creates opportunity.
WIFE: It also creates a mirror in which failure appears to be a private disgrace.
OLDER SON: I would rather build one honest table than sell a thousand dreams I cannot live inside.
Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which idea about success does the salesman defend?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The salesman defines identity through opened doors and claims that admiration creates opportunity.
• Option A is correct because he equates success with being recognized, liked and welcomed.
• The older son challenges this belief by separating admiration from usefulness.
• The exchange critiques a version of the American Dream based on image rather than durable achievement.
• Option A is correct because he equates success with being recognized, liked and welcomed.
• The older son challenges this belief by separating admiration from usefulness.
• The exchange critiques a version of the American Dream based on image rather than durable achievement.
వివరణ:
Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
What does the wife mean when she says that the offices knew the samples rather than the salesman?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The salesman remembers recognition, but the wife distinguishes commercial familiarity from knowledge of the person.
• Option C is correct because the offices valued his function as a seller rather than his full identity.
• Her response challenges his sentimental interpretation of business relationships.
• The passage exposes the emotional danger of treating market recognition as personal affection.
• Option C is correct because the offices valued his function as a seller rather than his full identity.
• Her response challenges his sentimental interpretation of business relationships.
• The passage exposes the emotional danger of treating market recognition as personal affection.
వివరణ:
Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
What has the salesman transmitted to his sons?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The older son says that his father taught them to regard admiration as usefulness.
• Option B is correct because the sons inherited a distorted measure of personal worth.
• The conflict is therefore generational as well as economic.
• Millerian tragedy often examines how national ideals enter family relationships and shape individual identity.
• Option B is correct because the sons inherited a distorted measure of personal worth.
• The conflict is therefore generational as well as economic.
• Millerian tragedy often examines how national ideals enter family relationships and shape individual identity.
వివరణ:
Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
What does the wife's mirror metaphor suggest?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The wife says that admiration produces a mirror in which failure appears privately disgraceful.
• Option D is correct because the individual blames himself for conditions also created by an impersonal economic system.
• The metaphor connects public ideology with inward humiliation.
• Social tragedy emerges when institutional pressures are experienced as defects of personal identity.
• Option D is correct because the individual blames himself for conditions also created by an impersonal economic system.
• The metaphor connects public ideology with inward humiliation.
• Social tragedy emerges when institutional pressures are experienced as defects of personal identity.
వివరణ:
Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
What alternative value does the older son express in the final line?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The older son contrasts building one honest table with selling dreams he cannot inhabit.
• Option A is correct because he values concrete creation and personal integrity over impressive but empty performance.
• The table symbolizes work whose reality can be tested.
• His statement challenges the father's version of the American Dream without rejecting aspiration altogether.
• Option A is correct because he values concrete creation and personal integrity over impressive but empty performance.
• The table symbolizes work whose reality can be tested.
• His statement challenges the father's version of the American Dream without rejecting aspiration altogether.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Tennessee Williams's memory drama.
NARRATOR: Memory enters this room through the blue curtains. It softens the broken chair, brightens the unpaid bills and gives every regret the music it lacked when it occurred.
MOTHER: Your sister has arranged the paper birds again. She says they fly better when no one touches them.
NARRATOR: Nothing in this house flies. Some things merely become too delicate to be held.
SISTER: I made this bird with one wing larger than the other.
MOTHER: Then correct it before the visitor arrives.
SISTER: It would no longer be mine if it were corrected.
NARRATOR: I promised to bring someone who might change her life.
MOTHER: A promise is a window. Do not open it unless there is a world outside.
NARRATOR: I opened it because I wanted one for myself.
Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
What does the narrator suggest about memory?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The narrator says that memory softens damage, brightens bills and gives music to regret.
• Option C is correct because recollection transforms rather than neutrally records the past.
• Pain remains present, but it is filtered through theatrical beauty.
• Memory plays often acknowledge that their scenes are emotionally truthful without claiming documentary precision.
• Option C is correct because recollection transforms rather than neutrally records the past.
• Pain remains present, but it is filtered through theatrical beauty.
• Memory plays often acknowledge that their scenes are emotionally truthful without claiming documentary precision.
వివరణ:
Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
What do the paper birds most plausibly symbolize?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The birds appear capable of flight but remain delicate objects arranged inside the room.
• Option A is correct because they reflect the sister's imaginative life, vulnerability and restricted possibility.
• Their fragility also explains why she resists careless handling.
• Williams frequently uses stage objects as extensions of a character's emotional condition.
• Option A is correct because they reflect the sister's imaginative life, vulnerability and restricted possibility.
• Their fragility also explains why she resists careless handling.
• Williams frequently uses stage objects as extensions of a character's emotional condition.
వివరణ:
Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
What does the sister's refusal to correct the uneven bird reveal?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The sister says that correcting the bird would make it no longer hers.
• Option D is correct because she connects imperfection with uniqueness and personal ownership.
• Her statement quietly resists the mother's demand for social conformity.
• The bird's unevenness may also reflect the sister's awareness of her own difference.
• Option D is correct because she connects imperfection with uniqueness and personal ownership.
• Her statement quietly resists the mother's demand for social conformity.
• The bird's unevenness may also reflect the sister's awareness of her own difference.
వివరణ:
Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
What motivates the narrator to invite the visitor?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The narrator claims that the visitor may change his sister's life but admits that he opened the figurative window for himself.
• Option B is correct because his action combines family responsibility with personal longing for freedom.
• His motive is therefore compassionate but not selfless.
• This ambiguity deepens the family conflict and prepares the possibility of guilt.
• Option B is correct because his action combines family responsibility with personal longing for freedom.
• His motive is therefore compassionate but not selfless.
• This ambiguity deepens the family conflict and prepares the possibility of guilt.
వివరణ:
Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
What does the mother's window metaphor imply?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The mother describes a promise as a window that should not be opened without a world beyond it.
• Option C is correct because false hope can expose vulnerable people to disappointment.
• The metaphor connects expectation with the possibility of escape from confinement.
• Dramatically, the visitor represents both opportunity and the risk of emotional betrayal.
• Option C is correct because false hope can expose vulnerable people to disappointment.
• The metaphor connects expectation with the possibility of escape from confinement.
• Dramatically, the visitor represents both opportunity and the risk of emotional betrayal.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Girish Karnad's use of myth and history.
KING: The inscription will say that I raised this temple after the goddess appeared in my dream.
SCULPTOR: The goddess appeared after the southern villages refused your new tax.
PRIEST: History must be carved in a form that protects the kingdom.
QUEEN: You mean in a form that protects the king.
SCULPTOR: My hands shaped every figure, yet my name cannot enter the stone because of the caste into which I was born.
PRIEST: Sacred work belongs to the deity, not the artisan.
SCULPTOR: Then why does royal work belong to the king?
QUEEN: Let his name be carved.
KING: A queen does not decide what history remembers.
QUEEN: No, but history may remember who was forbidden to speak while men decided it.
Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
What conflict structures the first paragraph?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The king attributes the temple to a divine dream, while the sculptor connects it with resistance to taxation.
• Option B is correct because sacred narrative is being used to rewrite a political crisis.
• The priest's statement confirms that history is being shaped to protect authority.
• Karnad's drama often places myth and history in tension rather than treating either as neutral truth.
• Option B is correct because sacred narrative is being used to rewrite a political crisis.
• The priest's statement confirms that history is being shaped to protect authority.
• Karnad's drama often places myth and history in tension rather than treating either as neutral truth.
వివరణ:
Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
What does the sculptor's question about royal work expose?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The priest says that sacred work belongs to the deity rather than the artisan.
• Option D is correct because the sculptor applies the same logic to the king and reveals its inconsistency.
• His question exposes how religious language can preserve caste and political hierarchy.
• The dialogue transforms an individual grievance into a critique of institutional power.
• Option D is correct because the sculptor applies the same logic to the king and reveals its inconsistency.
• His question exposes how religious language can preserve caste and political hierarchy.
• The dialogue transforms an individual grievance into a critique of institutional power.
వివరణ:
Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which social issue is most directly represented by the exclusion of the sculptor's name?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The sculptor explicitly says that his birth prevents his name from being carved beside the work he created.
• Option C is correct because caste determines whose labour may be acknowledged publicly.
• His artistic skill does not overcome the inherited social restriction.
• The passage uses historical setting to examine continuing questions of dignity and social exclusion.
• Option C is correct because caste determines whose labour may be acknowledged publicly.
• His artistic skill does not overcome the inherited social restriction.
• The passage uses historical setting to examine continuing questions of dignity and social exclusion.
వివరణ:
Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
How is the queen characterized?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The queen distinguishes protection of the kingdom from protection of the king and demands recognition for the sculptor.
• Option A is correct because she challenges the authority of male rulers to control both history and speech.
• The king's reply reveals the gendered limit placed upon her political voice.
• Her final statement converts exclusion itself into material that history may preserve.
• Option A is correct because she challenges the authority of male rulers to control both history and speech.
• The king's reply reveals the gendered limit placed upon her political voice.
• Her final statement converts exclusion itself into material that history may preserve.
వివరణ:
Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
What is the main dramatic implication of the queen's final line?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The queen predicts that history may remember who was prevented from participating in its construction.
• Option D is correct because acts of suppression can themselves become historically meaningful.
• Her line challenges the king's belief that authority can completely control memory.
• The passage therefore presents history as contested, incomplete and open to later reinterpretation.
• Option D is correct because acts of suppression can themselves become historically meaningful.
• Her line challenges the king's belief that authority can completely control memory.
• The passage therefore presents history as contested, incomplete and open to later reinterpretation.
వివరణ:
Unseen examination-style passage inspired by Mahesh Dattani's social drama.
MOTHER: Keep the front shutters closed. The procession may turn toward our street.
SON: Rahim Uncle says his family can shelter in the storeroom if the crowd reaches their lane.
FATHER: This is not the night to advertise friendship.
DAUGHTER: Then what is friendship for?
GRANDMOTHER: During the last riot, their people broke your grandfather's shop.
SON: Rahim Uncle rebuilt the counter afterward.
GRANDMOTHER: Some memories should not be balanced like accounts.
DAUGHTER: You remember the hand that broke the glass but not the hand that repaired it.
FATHER: Enough. The neighbours are watching.
MOTHER: They are always watching. That is why we have learned to perform peace instead of practising it.
A stone strikes the closed shutter. No one moves toward the door.
Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
What immediate conflict confronts the family?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The son proposes sheltering Rahim Uncle's family while the father fears public consequences.
• Option A is correct because moral responsibility conflicts with communal fear and concern about reputation.
• The closed shutters make the political danger physically present inside the household.
• Dattani's drama often places public prejudice within intimate family decisions.
• Option A is correct because moral responsibility conflicts with communal fear and concern about reputation.
• The closed shutters make the political danger physically present inside the household.
• Dattani's drama often places public prejudice within intimate family decisions.
వివరణ:
Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
What does the daughter's statement about the broken and repaired glass reveal?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The grandmother remembers violence associated with another community but ignores Rahim Uncle's later act of assistance.
• Option C is correct because memory is organized to preserve grievance while excluding evidence that complicates it.
• The daughter does not erase the original harm; she challenges its use as a total judgement of a community.
• Selective remembrance becomes a mechanism through which communal hostility survives.
• Option C is correct because memory is organized to preserve grievance while excluding evidence that complicates it.
• The daughter does not erase the original harm; she challenges its use as a total judgement of a community.
• Selective remembrance becomes a mechanism through which communal hostility survives.
వివరణ:
Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Why does the father refuse to advertise friendship?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The father repeatedly refers to neighbours watching and treats visible friendship as dangerous.
• Option B is correct because communal identity pressures him to conceal personal loyalty.
• His motive combines fear, conformity and self-protection rather than simple personal hatred.
• This complexity shows how prejudice is maintained through social surveillance.
• Option B is correct because communal identity pressures him to conceal personal loyalty.
• His motive combines fear, conformity and self-protection rather than simple personal hatred.
• This complexity shows how prejudice is maintained through social surveillance.
వివరణ:
Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
What does the mother mean by performing peace instead of practising it?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The mother distinguishes outward appearance from ethically meaningful behaviour.
• Option D is correct because the family wants to seem peaceful while hesitating to protect threatened neighbours.
• The language of performance highlights hypocrisy within domestic and communal life.
• Dattani frequently uses theatrical self-awareness to reveal the roles people adopt under social pressure.
• Option D is correct because the family wants to seem peaceful while hesitating to protect threatened neighbours.
• The language of performance highlights hypocrisy within domestic and communal life.
• Dattani frequently uses theatrical self-awareness to reveal the roles people adopt under social pressure.
వివరణ:
Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
What is the dramatic significance of no one moving when the stone strikes the shutter?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The stone transforms anticipated communal danger into an immediate physical event.
• Option C is correct because the family's failure to move reveals the practical power of fear.
• Their earlier debate about friendship is now tested by action rather than words.
• The stage direction leaves the audience to judge whether silence protects life or becomes participation in injustice.
• Option C is correct because the family's failure to move reveals the practical power of fear.
• Their earlier debate about friendship is now tested by action rather than words.
• The stage direction leaves the audience to judge whether silence protects life or becomes participation in injustice.
వివరణ:
Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Whether to reject his father or repeat his father's pattern సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: D. The language of work and duty protects him from confronting emotional responsibility సమాధానం: D.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: A. Livelihood, escape and inherited emotional absence సమాధానం: A.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: C. Bitterly perceptive సమాధానం: C.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. His socially defensible commitment to work has contributed to the destruction of family intimacy సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: A. Personal attractiveness and social recognition create opportunity సమాధానం: A.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. His professional relationships were transactional rather than genuinely personal సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: B. A belief that popularity is equivalent to value సమాధానం: B.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: D. A competitive ideal makes structural economic failure feel like personal shame సమాధానం: D.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: A. Tangible and honest work is preferable to living through false appearances సమాధానం: A.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. It reshapes painful reality through beauty and emotional selection సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: A. The sister's fragile imagination and desire for a protected form of freedom సమాధానం: A.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: D. She values individual imperfection as part of identity సమాధానం: D.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. A mixture of concern for his sister and desire for his own escape సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. Hope becomes dangerous when it offers escape without a real possibility behind it సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: B. Mythic explanation is being used to conceal political motives సమాధానం: B.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: D. A double standard allows rulers to claim credit while denying recognition to labourers సమాధానం: D.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. Caste-based denial of recognition సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. As a critic of both patriarchal and political control over historical memory సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. Official history may unintentionally preserve evidence of those it excludes సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Whether to protect a neighbouring Muslim family despite fear of communal violence సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: C. Collective prejudice depends upon selective memory సమాధానం: C.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: B. He fears social judgement and possible retaliation from his own community సమాధానం: B.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. The community displays respectability while avoiding actions that require genuine solidarity సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. Fear has produced paralysis at the moment when moral action may be required సమాధానం: C.