Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which description best defines nineteenth-century melodrama?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Melodrama commonly presents clear moral opposition between virtuous and villainous characters.
• Its plots use suspense, coincidence, danger, emotional intensity and spectacular stage effects.
• Music historically accompanied or heightened important moments in the action.
• The form became a major influence on popular theatre, fiction and later cinema.
• Its plots use suspense, coincidence, danger, emotional intensity and spectacular stage effects.
• Music historically accompanied or heightened important moments in the action.
• The form became a major influence on popular theatre, fiction and later cinema.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Which French dramatist is most closely associated with the development of the well-made play?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Eugène Scribe is closely associated with the development of the well-made play or pièce bien faite.
• The form depends on careful exposition, concealed information, complications and a tightly managed climax.
• Victor Hugo contributed to Romantic drama, while Zola advocated theatrical naturalism.
• Scribe's structural model influenced many nineteenth-century European dramatists.
• The form depends on careful exposition, concealed information, complications and a tightly managed climax.
• Victor Hugo contributed to Romantic drama, while Zola advocated theatrical naturalism.
• Scribe's structural model influenced many nineteenth-century European dramatists.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which feature is most characteristic of the well-made play?
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Explanation:
• The well-made play carefully introduces necessary background information and hidden secrets.
• Its plot develops through misunderstandings, discoveries, reversals and precisely timed entrances.
• A climactic revelation usually resolves the central complications.
• The form values mechanical efficiency and theatrical suspense.
• Its plot develops through misunderstandings, discoveries, reversals and precisely timed entrances.
• A climactic revelation usually resolves the central complications.
• The form values mechanical efficiency and theatrical suspense.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
In The Importance of Being Earnest, what does Algernon call the practice of inventing an imaginary person as an excuse to escape social obligations?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Algernon calls this practice Bunburying after his imaginary invalid friend Bunbury.
• The invention allows him to avoid unwanted social engagements.
• Jack similarly maintains separate identities in the country and the city.
• Bunburying reflects the play's concern with double lives, social performance and unstable identity.
• The invention allows him to avoid unwanted social engagements.
• Jack similarly maintains separate identities in the country and the city.
• Bunburying reflects the play's concern with double lives, social performance and unstable identity.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
What name does Jack Worthing use when he visits London in The Importance of Being Earnest?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Jack Worthing presents himself as Ernest when he visits London.
• In the country, he claims that Ernest is his irresponsible younger brother.
• His double identity allows him to escape the moral expectations attached to his role as guardian.
• The name Ernest becomes central to the play's satire on sincerity and social identity.
• In the country, he claims that Ernest is his irresponsible younger brother.
• His double identity allows him to escape the moral expectations attached to his role as guardian.
• The name Ernest becomes central to the play's satire on sincerity and social identity.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Where was Jack Worthing discovered as an infant?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Jack was discovered in a handbag in the cloakroom at Victoria Station.
• The absurd origin becomes a major obstacle to his proposed marriage with Gwendolen.
• Lady Bracknell treats family background and social status as more important than personal character.
• The handbag later helps reveal Jack's true identity and family connection.
• The absurd origin becomes a major obstacle to his proposed marriage with Gwendolen.
• Lady Bracknell treats family background and social status as more important than personal character.
• The handbag later helps reveal Jack's true identity and family connection.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which character in The Importance of Being Earnest conducts an interrogation of Jack concerning income, politics and family background?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Lady Bracknell questions Jack after learning that he wishes to marry Gwendolen.
• Her interrogation reduces marriage to questions of class, income, property and lineage.
• The scene satirises the values and prejudices of Victorian upper-class society.
• Gwendolen loves Jack, but Lady Bracknell initially refuses to approve the match.
• Her interrogation reduces marriage to questions of class, income, property and lineage.
• The scene satirises the values and prejudices of Victorian upper-class society.
• Gwendolen loves Jack, but Lady Bracknell initially refuses to approve the match.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which character in Arms and the Man is known as the chocolate-cream soldier?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Captain Bluntschli carries chocolates rather than cartridges in his ammunition pouch.
• Raina consequently calls him the chocolate-cream soldier.
• His practical view of warfare challenges romantic ideas of military heroism.
• Bluntschli becomes Shaw's principal instrument for exposing the illusions of Raina and Sergius.
• Raina consequently calls him the chocolate-cream soldier.
• His practical view of warfare challenges romantic ideas of military heroism.
• Bluntschli becomes Shaw's principal instrument for exposing the illusions of Raina and Sergius.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
At the beginning of Arms and the Man, to whom is Raina engaged?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Raina is initially engaged to the Bulgarian officer Sergius Saranoff.
• She idealises him as a heroic and romantic warrior.
• Sergius's behaviour gradually exposes the artificiality of their relationship.
• Raina ultimately recognises her stronger compatibility with the practical Bluntschli.
• She idealises him as a heroic and romantic warrior.
• Sergius's behaviour gradually exposes the artificiality of their relationship.
• Raina ultimately recognises her stronger compatibility with the practical Bluntschli.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which statement best expresses Shaw's treatment of warfare in Arms and the Man?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Shaw contrasts romantic military ideals with the practical and often accidental realities of warfare.
• Sergius's cavalry charge succeeds despite being strategically foolish.
• Bluntschli survives because he values food, experience and practical judgement over heroic display.
• The play uses comedy to question conventional ideas about courage and honour.
• Sergius's cavalry charge succeeds despite being strategically foolish.
• Bluntschli survives because he values food, experience and practical judgement over heroic display.
• The play uses comedy to question conventional ideas about courage and honour.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
What is Henry Higgins's professional field in Pygmalion?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Henry Higgins is a professor and specialist in phonetics.
• He studies speech sounds and claims that he can identify a speaker's geographical and social background.
• His expertise enables him to train Eliza Doolittle in upper-class pronunciation.
• The play uses phonetics to examine class identity, education and social power.
• He studies speech sounds and claims that he can identify a speaker's geographical and social background.
• His expertise enables him to train Eliza Doolittle in upper-class pronunciation.
• The play uses phonetics to examine class identity, education and social power.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
What is Eliza Doolittle's occupation when she first meets Henry Higgins?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Eliza initially sells flowers on the streets of London.
• Her speech identifies her as a member of the urban working class.
• She seeks lessons from Higgins because she wants to improve her economic and social opportunities.
• Her transformation raises questions about whether language training alone can create a secure identity.
• Her speech identifies her as a member of the urban working class.
• She seeks lessons from Higgins because she wants to improve her economic and social opportunities.
• Her transformation raises questions about whether language training alone can create a secure identity.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
What wager forms the central experiment of Pygmalion?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Higgins claims that he can transform Eliza's social presentation by teaching her pronunciation and manners.
• He intends to make her pass convincingly as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party.
• The experiment demonstrates the constructed nature of many class distinctions.
• It also reveals the ethical danger of treating a person as material for an experiment.
• He intends to make her pass convincingly as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party.
• The experiment demonstrates the constructed nature of many class distinctions.
• It also reveals the ethical danger of treating a person as material for an experiment.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Consider the following statements about The Importance of Being Earnest.
Statement I: The play uses epigram and paradox to expose Victorian social conventions.
Statement II: The play treats marriage only as a solemn religious duty without comic irony.
Choose the correct answer.
Statement I: The play uses epigram and paradox to expose Victorian social conventions.
Statement II: The play treats marriage only as a solemn religious duty without comic irony.
Choose the correct answer.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Wilde's epigrams reverse conventional expectations and expose social hypocrisy.
• Statement II is incorrect because marriage is treated through irony, negotiation, absurdity and social satire.
• Characters often value names, income and appearance more than emotional sincerity.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because marriage is treated through irony, negotiation, absurdity and social satire.
• Characters often value names, income and appearance more than emotional sincerity.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which objective was central to the Irish Literary Revival?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Irish Literary Revival sought to create a distinctive modern Irish literature.
• Writers drew on Irish mythology, folklore, rural speech, history and political experience.
• The movement formed part of a wider cultural effort to resist dependence on English models.
• Yeats, Lady Gregory and Synge became major figures in its theatrical development.
• Writers drew on Irish mythology, folklore, rural speech, history and political experience.
• The movement formed part of a wider cultural effort to resist dependence on English models.
• Yeats, Lady Gregory and Synge became major figures in its theatrical development.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which institution became the principal theatrical centre of the Irish Literary Revival?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Abbey Theatre opened in Dublin in 1904 and became the national theatre associated with the Irish Literary Revival.
• It staged works by Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge and other Irish dramatists.
• The theatre promoted Irish subjects, speech patterns and performance traditions.
• Its productions also became sites of political and cultural controversy.
• It staged works by Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge and other Irish dramatists.
• The theatre promoted Irish subjects, speech patterns and performance traditions.
• Its productions also became sites of political and cultural controversy.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which of the following plays was written by W. B. Yeats?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Countess Cathleen is a verse drama by W. B. Yeats.
• The play draws on Irish legend and explores sacrifice, spirituality and national identity.
• The Rising of the Moon is by Lady Gregory, while The Playboy of the Western World is by J. M. Synge.
• Yeats sought a poetic and symbolic theatre distinct from commercial realism.
• The play draws on Irish legend and explores sacrifice, spirituality and national identity.
• The Rising of the Moon is by Lady Gregory, while The Playboy of the Western World is by J. M. Synge.
• Yeats sought a poetic and symbolic theatre distinct from commercial realism.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which description best characterises Yeats's dramatic method?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Yeats developed a poetic theatre using symbolism, myth, music, dance and ritualised movement.
• He resisted the dominance of commercial realism and elaborate naturalistic scenery.
• Irish legend and spiritual conflict are central to many of his plays.
• His dramatic experiments also drew inspiration from non-Western theatrical traditions.
• He resisted the dominance of commercial realism and elaborate naturalistic scenery.
• Irish legend and spiritual conflict are central to many of his plays.
• His dramatic experiments also drew inspiration from non-Western theatrical traditions.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which play was written by Lady Gregory?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Rising of the Moon is a one-act play by Lady Gregory.
• It presents an encounter between a police sergeant and an Irish revolutionary fugitive.
• The play explores national loyalty, memory and divided political identity.
• Lady Gregory also played a major organisational role in the Abbey Theatre and the Irish Literary Revival.
• It presents an encounter between a police sergeant and an Irish revolutionary fugitive.
• The play explores national loyalty, memory and divided political identity.
• Lady Gregory also played a major organisational role in the Abbey Theatre and the Irish Literary Revival.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Who is the protagonist of The Playboy of the Western World?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Christy Mahon arrives at a rural public house claiming that he has killed his father.
• His story transforms him from a frightened outsider into a celebrated local hero.
• The community's admiration depends more on his narrative performance than on moral judgement.
• The return of Old Mahon exposes the instability of Christy's new identity.
• His story transforms him from a frightened outsider into a celebrated local hero.
• The community's admiration depends more on his narrative performance than on moral judgement.
• The return of Old Mahon exposes the instability of Christy's new identity.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Why do the villagers initially admire Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Christy claims that he struck and killed his oppressive father.
• The villagers romanticise the supposed act and admire the courage suggested by his story.
• Their response reveals the power of language, storytelling and communal fantasy.
• When they witness actual violence later, their admiration turns into condemnation.
• The villagers romanticise the supposed act and admire the courage suggested by his story.
• Their response reveals the power of language, storytelling and communal fantasy.
• When they witness actual violence later, their admiration turns into condemnation.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Assertion: The Playboy of the Western World caused controversy during its first Abbey Theatre performances.
Reason: Some spectators believed that Synge's representation of Irish rural life and sexuality insulted national dignity.
Choose the correct answer.
Reason: Some spectators believed that Synge's representation of Irish rural life and sexuality insulted national dignity.
Choose the correct answer.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because the 1907 production provoked disturbances commonly called the Playboy riots.
• The Reason is correct because nationalist spectators objected to aspects of the play's language, sexuality and representation of Irish rural society.
• The controversy revealed tensions between artistic freedom and nationalist expectations.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because nationalist spectators objected to aspects of the play's language, sexuality and representation of Irish rural society.
• The controversy revealed tensions between artistic freedom and nationalist expectations.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Oscar Wilde
2. George Bernard Shaw
3. Lady Gregory
4. J. M. Synge
List II
P. The Rising of the Moon
Q. The Importance of Being Earnest
R. The Playboy of the Western World
S. Pygmalion
Choose the correct code.
List I
1. Oscar Wilde
2. George Bernard Shaw
3. Lady Gregory
4. J. M. Synge
List II
P. The Rising of the Moon
Q. The Importance of Being Earnest
R. The Playboy of the Western World
S. Pygmalion
Choose the correct code.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Oscar Wilde matches Q because he wrote The Importance of Being Earnest.
• George Bernard Shaw matches S because he wrote Pygmalion.
• Lady Gregory matches P because she wrote The Rising of the Moon.
• J. M. Synge matches R because he wrote The Playboy of the Western World.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-Q, 2-S, 3-P, 4-R.
• George Bernard Shaw matches S because he wrote Pygmalion.
• Lady Gregory matches P because she wrote The Rising of the Moon.
• J. M. Synge matches R because he wrote The Playboy of the Western World.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-Q, 2-S, 3-P, 4-R.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Arrange the following plays in chronological order of first performance.
1. Pygmalion
2. Arms and the Man
3. The Playboy of the Western World
4. The Importance of Being Earnest
1. Pygmalion
2. Arms and the Man
3. The Playboy of the Western World
4. The Importance of Being Earnest
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Arms and the Man was first performed in 1894.
• The Importance of Being Earnest was first performed in 1895.
• The Playboy of the Western World was first performed in 1907.
• Pygmalion was first staged in 1913 before its English production in 1914.
• The correct sequence is 2, 4, 3, 1.
• The Importance of Being Earnest was first performed in 1895.
• The Playboy of the Western World was first performed in 1907.
• Pygmalion was first staged in 1913 before its English production in 1914.
• The correct sequence is 2, 4, 3, 1.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The pair Pygmalion — romantic celebration of class hierarchy without criticism is incorrect.
• Pygmalion exposes the role of speech, education, money and behaviour in constructing class distinctions.
• It also questions Higgins's treatment of Eliza and resists a simple romantic conclusion.
• The other pairs accurately identify major features of melodrama, the well-made play and Wilde's comedy.
• Pygmalion exposes the role of speech, education, money and behaviour in constructing class distinctions.
• It also questions Higgins's treatment of Eliza and resists a simple romantic conclusion.
• The other pairs accurately identify major features of melodrama, the well-made play and Wilde's comedy.
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Question 26
ప్రశ్న 26
Which combination correctly identifies major developments in nineteenth-century British and Irish drama?
1. Popular melodrama expanded theatrical spectacle and emotional suspense.
2. The well-made play encouraged tightly organised plotting.
3. Wilde and Shaw used comedy to criticise social conventions.
4. The Irish Literary Revival developed drama grounded in Irish culture and national debate.
1. Popular melodrama expanded theatrical spectacle and emotional suspense.
2. The well-made play encouraged tightly organised plotting.
3. Wilde and Shaw used comedy to criticise social conventions.
4. The Irish Literary Revival developed drama grounded in Irish culture and national debate.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because melodrama relied on suspense, emotional conflict and visual spectacle.
• Statement 2 is correct because the well-made play emphasised exposition, complication and climactic revelation.
• Statement 3 is correct because Wilde and Shaw transformed comedy into a vehicle of social criticism.
• Statement 4 is correct because Yeats, Lady Gregory and Synge developed a theatre engaged with Irish identity and politics.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because the well-made play emphasised exposition, complication and climactic revelation.
• Statement 3 is correct because Wilde and Shaw transformed comedy into a vehicle of social criticism.
• Statement 4 is correct because Yeats, Lady Gregory and Synge developed a theatre engaged with Irish identity and politics.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. A sensational drama using moral polarities, emotional conflict and spectacular incidents సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. Eugène Scribe సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Carefully prepared complications leading to a climactic revelation సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Bunburying సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Ernest సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. In a handbag at Victoria Station సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Lady Bracknell సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Captain Bluntschli సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Sergius Saranoff సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Romantic ideas of military glory are challenged by practical realities and human weakness. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Phonetics సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Flower seller సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Higgins claims that he can train Eliza to pass as a duchess through speech and manners. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. The creation of a distinctive Irish literature drawing on national history, folklore and cultural identity సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. The Abbey Theatre సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. The Countess Cathleen సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. Use of poetic language, symbolism, myth and ritualised performance సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. The Rising of the Moon సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. Christy Mahon సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. They are fascinated by his claim that he killed his father. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. 1-Q, 2-S, 3-P, 4-R సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: A. 2, 4, 3, 1 సమాధానం: A.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. Pygmalion — romantic celebration of class hierarchy without criticism సమాధానం: C.
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Question 26 ప్రశ్న 26Answer: D. 1, 2, 3 and 4 సమాధానం: D.