Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which dramatist is most closely associated with the development of Epic Theatre?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Bertolt Brecht is the dramatist most closely associated with Epic Theatre.
• He developed theatrical methods intended to encourage critical reflection rather than passive emotional absorption.
• Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter are more commonly associated with the Theatre of the Absurd.
• Brecht's work joins formal experimentation with explicit political and social analysis.
• He developed theatrical methods intended to encourage critical reflection rather than passive emotional absorption.
• Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter are more commonly associated with the Theatre of the Absurd.
• Brecht's work joins formal experimentation with explicit political and social analysis.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
The German term Verfremdungseffekt is commonly translated as the
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Explanation:
• Verfremdungseffekt is commonly translated as the alienation or estrangement effect.
• It aims to make familiar social relations appear strange and therefore open to criticism.
• Brecht did not want spectators to forget that they were watching a constructed performance.
• The technique differs from classical unity, comic relief and the illusion of an invisible fourth wall.
• It aims to make familiar social relations appear strange and therefore open to criticism.
• Brecht did not want spectators to forget that they were watching a constructed performance.
• The technique differs from classical unity, comic relief and the illusion of an invisible fourth wall.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which structural feature is especially characteristic of Brechtian Epic Theatre?
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Explanation:
• Epic Theatre commonly uses an episodic structure in which scenes retain a degree of independence.
• Each episode may examine a different stage of a social process or historical conflict.
• This arrangement interrupts seamless dramatic illusion and encourages comparison and judgement.
• Brecht's structure therefore differs from tightly unified dramatic action.
• Each episode may examine a different stage of a social process or historical conflict.
• This arrangement interrupts seamless dramatic illusion and encourages comparison and judgement.
• Brecht's structure therefore differs from tightly unified dramatic action.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which device most directly prevents suspense by informing the audience in advance about what will occur in a scene?
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Explanation:
• Brecht often used projected titles, placards or captions to announce the content of a scene.
• By revealing outcomes in advance, the performance shifts attention from what happens to why and how it happens.
• This technique weakens conventional suspense and strengthens analysis.
• It is a major practical form of the alienation effect.
• By revealing outcomes in advance, the performance shifts attention from what happens to why and how it happens.
• This technique weakens conventional suspense and strengthens analysis.
• It is a major practical form of the alienation effect.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which Brecht play follows a travelling trader and her children during the Thirty Years' War?
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Explanation:
• Mother Courage and Her Children follows Anna Fierling, known as Mother Courage, during the Thirty Years' War.
• She attempts to profit from war while gradually losing her children to it.
• The play exposes the economic system that turns war into business.
• Its episodic form discourages a simple interpretation of Mother Courage as either hero or villain.
• She attempts to profit from war while gradually losing her children to it.
• The play exposes the economic system that turns war into business.
• Its episodic form discourages a simple interpretation of Mother Courage as either hero or villain.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which Brecht work adapts the story of the criminal Macheath and satirises bourgeois society?
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Explanation:
• The Threepenny Opera centres on Macheath, also called Mack the Knife.
• Brecht and composer Kurt Weill adapted material from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.
• The work satirises capitalism, crime, respectability and the similarity between legal and illegal exploitation.
• Songs interrupt the action and comment critically on the characters and society.
• Brecht and composer Kurt Weill adapted material from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.
• The work satirises capitalism, crime, respectability and the similarity between legal and illegal exploitation.
• Songs interrupt the action and comment critically on the characters and society.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
In Brechtian theatre, songs generally function to
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Brechtian songs interrupt rather than merely decorate the dramatic action.
• They may expose contradictions, summarise social relations or challenge a character's conduct.
• Performers are not expected to dissolve completely into the emotion of the song.
• The separation of music, text and acting encourages critical spectatorship.
• They may expose contradictions, summarise social relations or challenge a character's conduct.
• Performers are not expected to dissolve completely into the emotion of the song.
• The separation of music, text and acting encourages critical spectatorship.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which description best defines the political purpose of Epic Theatre?
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Explanation:
• Epic Theatre presents social arrangements as products of history rather than eternal facts.
• By exposing contradiction and causation, it encourages audiences to imagine alternatives.
• Brecht's political theatre often examines class, labour, war, law and ideology.
• Its purpose is therefore transformative and analytical rather than merely contemplative.
• By exposing contradiction and causation, it encourages audiences to imagine alternatives.
• Brecht's political theatre often examines class, labour, war, law and ideology.
• Its purpose is therefore transformative and analytical rather than merely contemplative.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Who coined the critical label Theatre of the Absurd in a major study published in 1961?
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Explanation:
• Martin Esslin popularised the term Theatre of the Absurd in his 1961 study of that name.
• He grouped dramatists such as Beckett, Ionesco, Adamov and Genet around shared formal and philosophical tendencies.
• The writers did not constitute a formally organised movement.
• Sartre, Camus and Artaud influenced modern theatre but did not coin this critical label.
• He grouped dramatists such as Beckett, Ionesco, Adamov and Genet around shared formal and philosophical tendencies.
• The writers did not constitute a formally organised movement.
• Sartre, Camus and Artaud influenced modern theatre but did not coin this critical label.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which play by Samuel Beckett centres on Vladimir and Estragon waiting for someone who never arrives?
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Explanation:
• Waiting for Godot centres on Vladimir and Estragon waiting for the absent Godot.
• Godot never arrives, and a boy announces that he may come the following day.
• The repeated waiting creates a dramatic structure based on delay, uncertainty and recurrence.
• The play is one of the best-known works associated with the Theatre of the Absurd.
• Godot never arrives, and a boy announces that he may come the following day.
• The repeated waiting creates a dramatic structure based on delay, uncertainty and recurrence.
• The play is one of the best-known works associated with the Theatre of the Absurd.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
What is the setting of Waiting for Godot?
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Explanation:
• Waiting for Godot is set on a country road beside a tree.
• The setting is radically reduced and resists detailed realistic localisation.
• The tree acquires shifting associations with time, hope, death and possible renewal.
• The sparse environment directs attention toward repetition, language and bodily performance.
• The setting is radically reduced and resists detailed realistic localisation.
• The tree acquires shifting associations with time, hope, death and possible renewal.
• The sparse environment directs attention toward repetition, language and bodily performance.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which pair of characters arrives during both acts of Waiting for Godot?
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Explanation:
• Pozzo and Lucky encounter Vladimir and Estragon in both acts.
• In the first act, Pozzo dominates the enslaved Lucky through a rope and commands.
• In the second act, Pozzo is blind and Lucky is mute.
• Their altered condition reinforces the play's concern with instability, dependency and suffering.
• In the first act, Pozzo dominates the enslaved Lucky through a rope and commands.
• In the second act, Pozzo is blind and Lucky is mute.
• Their altered condition reinforces the play's concern with instability, dependency and suffering.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which action closes both acts of Waiting for Godot?
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Explanation:
• At the end of both acts, Vladimir and Estragon speak of leaving but do not move.
• The repeated failure to act embodies paralysis and the circular structure of the play.
• Their words and actions fail to coincide.
• This discrepancy contributes to the drama's treatment of habit, hope and existential uncertainty.
• The repeated failure to act embodies paralysis and the circular structure of the play.
• Their words and actions fail to coincide.
• This discrepancy contributes to the drama's treatment of habit, hope and existential uncertainty.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which statement best explains repetition in Waiting for Godot?
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Explanation:
• Repeated actions, phrases and encounters make the two acts resemble one another.
• The characters often cannot remember what happened previously with certainty.
• Repetition turns time into an unstable cycle rather than a clear progression toward resolution.
• Godot's continued absence prevents the waiting from reaching a definitive conclusion.
• The characters often cannot remember what happened previously with certainty.
• Repetition turns time into an unstable cycle rather than a clear progression toward resolution.
• Godot's continued absence prevents the waiting from reaching a definitive conclusion.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which Ionesco play begins with two couples whose conventional conversation gradually collapses into linguistic disorder?
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Explanation:
• The Bald Soprano begins with the Smiths and later introduces the Martins.
• Clichés, non sequiturs and contradictory statements gradually destroy meaningful conversation.
• The play satirises mechanical language and empty middle-class convention.
• Its ending returns to the beginning with the couples exchanged, reinforcing circularity.
• Clichés, non sequiturs and contradictory statements gradually destroy meaningful conversation.
• The play satirises mechanical language and empty middle-class convention.
• Its ending returns to the beginning with the couples exchanged, reinforcing circularity.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
In Ionesco's Rhinoceros, what happens to most of the inhabitants of the town?
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Explanation:
• Most townspeople gradually transform into rhinoceroses.
• The transformation has been interpreted as an image of conformity, ideological contagion and collective surrender.
• Bérenger remains human and struggles to resist the pressure of the herd.
• The fantastic premise allows Ionesco to dramatise political and social mass behaviour.
• The transformation has been interpreted as an image of conformity, ideological contagion and collective surrender.
• Bérenger remains human and struggles to resist the pressure of the herd.
• The fantastic premise allows Ionesco to dramatise political and social mass behaviour.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which term is most closely associated with Harold Pinter's distinctive use of pauses, threat and apparently ordinary conversation?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Comedy of menace is strongly associated with Pinter's early plays.
• Everyday speech and familiar settings conceal intimidation, uncertainty and possible violence.
• Humour and fear coexist because characters rarely possess secure knowledge about one another.
• The term captures the tonal instability of works such as The Birthday Party.
• Everyday speech and familiar settings conceal intimidation, uncertainty and possible violence.
• Humour and fear coexist because characters rarely possess secure knowledge about one another.
• The term captures the tonal instability of works such as The Birthday Party.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which Pinter play centres on Stanley Webber and the unexpected arrival of Goldberg and McCann?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Birthday Party centres on Stanley Webber in Meg and Petey's boarding house.
• Goldberg and McCann arrive and subject Stanley to interrogation, intimidation and a mysterious removal.
• Their authority and motives remain uncertain.
• The play exemplifies Pinter's comedy of menace and breakdown of reliable communication.
• Goldberg and McCann arrive and subject Stanley to interrogation, intimidation and a mysterious removal.
• Their authority and motives remain uncertain.
• The play exemplifies Pinter's comedy of menace and breakdown of reliable communication.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Consider the following statements about Brechtian acting.
Statement I: The actor should demonstrate a character rather than disappear completely into the role.
Statement II: The actor may use gesture and direct address to encourage critical distance.
Choose the correct answer.
Statement I: The actor should demonstrate a character rather than disappear completely into the role.
Statement II: The actor may use gesture and direct address to encourage critical distance.
Choose the correct answer.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Brechtian acting preserves a visible distinction between performer and character.
• Statement II is correct because gesture, commentary and direct address can interrupt psychological identification.
• The actor presents behaviour as something that could be judged or changed.
• Therefore, both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
• Statement II is correct because gesture, commentary and direct address can interrupt psychological identification.
• The actor presents behaviour as something that could be judged or changed.
• Therefore, both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which of the following statements about Waiting for Godot are correct?
1. Vladimir and Estragon repeatedly consider leaving.
2. Lucky delivers a long disordered speech.
3. Godot appears at the end of the second act.
4. A boy carries messages concerning Godot.
1. Vladimir and Estragon repeatedly consider leaving.
2. Lucky delivers a long disordered speech.
3. Godot appears at the end of the second act.
4. A boy carries messages concerning Godot.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Vladimir and Estragon repeatedly discuss departure without acting.
• Statement 2 is correct because Lucky delivers a lengthy and fragmented speech after being ordered to think.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because Godot never appears.
• Statement 4 is correct because a boy announces that Godot will not come that day.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because Lucky delivers a lengthy and fragmented speech after being ordered to think.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because Godot never appears.
• Statement 4 is correct because a boy announces that Godot will not come that day.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Assertion: Silence in Pinter's drama can function as a form of action.
Reason: Pauses and silences may communicate fear, resistance, hostility or shifts in power that spoken words conceal.
Choose the correct answer.
Reason: Pauses and silences may communicate fear, resistance, hostility or shifts in power that spoken words conceal.
Choose the correct answer.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because silence in Pinter is dramatically charged rather than empty.
• The Reason is correct because pauses may expose tension, conceal motive or alter control within a conversation.
• Meaning is produced by rhythm, hesitation and what remains unsaid.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because pauses may expose tension, conceal motive or alter control within a conversation.
• Meaning is produced by rhythm, hesitation and what remains unsaid.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Bertolt Brecht
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Eugène Ionesco
4. Harold Pinter
List II
P. The Birthday Party
Q. Waiting for Godot
R. Mother Courage and Her Children
S. Rhinoceros
Choose the correct code.
List I
1. Bertolt Brecht
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Eugène Ionesco
4. Harold Pinter
List II
P. The Birthday Party
Q. Waiting for Godot
R. Mother Courage and Her Children
S. Rhinoceros
Choose the correct code.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Bertolt Brecht matches R because he wrote Mother Courage and Her Children.
• Samuel Beckett matches Q because he wrote Waiting for Godot.
• Eugène Ionesco matches S because he wrote Rhinoceros.
• Harold Pinter matches P because he wrote The Birthday Party.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-R, 2-Q, 3-S, 4-P.
• Samuel Beckett matches Q because he wrote Waiting for Godot.
• Eugène Ionesco matches S because he wrote Rhinoceros.
• Harold Pinter matches P because he wrote The Birthday Party.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-R, 2-Q, 3-S, 4-P.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Arrange the following plays in chronological order of their first performances.
1. The Birthday Party
2. Waiting for Godot
3. Mother Courage and Her Children
4. The Bald Soprano
1. The Birthday Party
2. Waiting for Godot
3. Mother Courage and Her Children
4. The Bald Soprano
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Mother Courage and Her Children was first performed in 1941.
• The Bald Soprano was first performed in 1950.
• Waiting for Godot was first performed in 1953.
• The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958.
• The correct sequence is 3, 4, 2, 1.
• The Bald Soprano was first performed in 1950.
• Waiting for Godot was first performed in 1953.
• The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958.
• The correct sequence is 3, 4, 2, 1.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which comparison between Epic Theatre and the Theatre of the Absurd is most accurate?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Epic Theatre makes social processes visible and encourages audiences to analyse how institutions can change.
• Absurd drama frequently presents repetition, uncertainty and failures of language or purposeful action.
• Both challenge conventional realism, but they do so through different philosophical and political emphases.
• Neither form is defined by the well-made plot or complete naturalistic illusion.
• Absurd drama frequently presents repetition, uncertainty and failures of language or purposeful action.
• Both challenge conventional realism, but they do so through different philosophical and political emphases.
• Neither form is defined by the well-made plot or complete naturalistic illusion.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which combination correctly identifies recurrent features of the Theatre of the Absurd?
1. Circular or repetitive dramatic structures
2. Breakdown of reliable communication
3. Uncertainty about identity, motive or purpose
4. Conventional resolution through complete explanation
1. Circular or repetitive dramatic structures
2. Breakdown of reliable communication
3. Uncertainty about identity, motive or purpose
4. Conventional resolution through complete explanation
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Absurd plays often replace linear development with cycles and repetition.
• Statement 2 is correct because language may collapse into cliché, contradiction, silence or non sequitur.
• Statement 3 is correct because characters commonly lack secure knowledge about themselves and their situations.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because these plays generally resist complete explanation and conventional resolution.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because language may collapse into cliché, contradiction, silence or non sequitur.
• Statement 3 is correct because characters commonly lack secure knowledge about themselves and their situations.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because these plays generally resist complete explanation and conventional resolution.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Bertolt Brecht సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. alienation effect సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Episodic scenes that can be viewed as distinct units సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Projected titles or scene captions సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Mother Courage and Her Children సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. The Threepenny Opera సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. interrupt the action and comment on it critically సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. To reveal social relations as historically produced and capable of change సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Martin Esslin సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Waiting for Godot సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: D. A road beside a tree సమాధానం: D.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: C. Pozzo and Lucky సమాధానం: C.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: D. The characters say they will leave but remain where they are. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. It creates a circular experience in which memory, time and purposeful action become uncertain. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: B. The Bald Soprano సమాధానం: B.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: C. They transform into rhinoceroses. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: D. Comedy of menace సమాధానం: D.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. The Birthday Party సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: D. 1-R, 2-Q, 3-S, 4-P సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: A. 3, 4, 2, 1 సమాధానం: A.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. Epic Theatre foregrounds historical and social causation, while Absurd drama often exposes uncertainty, repetition and the failure of stable meaning. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. 1, 2 and 3 only సమాధానం: C.