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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which play by John Osborne is commonly associated with the emergence of the Angry Young Men in British theatre?
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Explanation:
• Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1956.
• Its protagonist Jimmy Porter became an emblem of postwar frustration and social discontent.
• The play helped redirect attention toward contemporary class tensions and ordinary domestic settings.
• The other plays are associated with Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and Caryl Churchill.
• Its protagonist Jimmy Porter became an emblem of postwar frustration and social discontent.
• The play helped redirect attention toward contemporary class tensions and ordinary domestic settings.
• The other plays are associated with Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and Caryl Churchill.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Who is the central protagonist of Look Back in Anger?
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Explanation:
• Jimmy Porter is the central protagonist of Look Back in Anger.
• He is educated but socially frustrated and expresses resentment toward class privilege, emotional complacency and postwar Britain.
• Cliff Lewis is his friend and business partner.
• Jimmy's anger shapes both the play's social criticism and its destructive domestic conflict.
• He is educated but socially frustrated and expresses resentment toward class privilege, emotional complacency and postwar Britain.
• Cliff Lewis is his friend and business partner.
• Jimmy's anger shapes both the play's social criticism and its destructive domestic conflict.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which domestic activity is repeatedly associated with Sunday life in Look Back in Anger?
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Explanation:
• The play repeatedly presents Jimmy and Cliff reading the Sunday newspapers while Alison irons.
• This ordinary domestic routine creates the setting for arguments about class, marriage and dissatisfaction.
• The confined flat supports the play's social realism.
• Osborne turns everyday activity into a theatrical expression of postwar emotional pressure.
• This ordinary domestic routine creates the setting for arguments about class, marriage and dissatisfaction.
• The confined flat supports the play's social realism.
• Osborne turns everyday activity into a theatrical expression of postwar emotional pressure.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which phrase best describes the Angry Young Men?
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Explanation:
• Angry Young Men was a loose journalistic and cultural label rather than a formal organisation.
• It was applied to several postwar British writers who challenged class privilege, convention and institutional complacency.
• John Osborne became strongly associated with the label after Look Back in Anger.
• The term does not identify a unified political programme or a single dramatic technique.
• It was applied to several postwar British writers who challenged class privilege, convention and institutional complacency.
• John Osborne became strongly associated with the label after Look Back in Anger.
• The term does not identify a unified political programme or a single dramatic technique.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which Harold Pinter play centres on Stanley Webber and the threatening arrival of Goldberg and McCann?
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Explanation:
• The Birthday Party centres on Stanley Webber in a seaside boarding house.
• Goldberg and McCann arrive and subject him to interrogation, humiliation and removal.
• Their motives and authority remain uncertain.
• The play combines ordinary conversation, comedy and menace.
• Goldberg and McCann arrive and subject him to interrogation, humiliation and removal.
• Their motives and authority remain uncertain.
• The play combines ordinary conversation, comedy and menace.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which term is especially associated with Pinter's use of everyday dialogue, pauses and underlying threat?
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Explanation:
• Comedy of menace describes the unstable mixture of humour and threat in Pinter's early drama.
• Familiar settings and ordinary speech conceal power struggles and possible violence.
• Pauses, silences and evasions become dramatically significant.
• The term is not equivalent to comedy of manners, Epic Theatre or heroic drama.
• Familiar settings and ordinary speech conceal power struggles and possible violence.
• Pauses, silences and evasions become dramatically significant.
• The term is not equivalent to comedy of manners, Epic Theatre or heroic drama.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
In The Caretaker, which two brothers offer or discuss shelter and work with the homeless Davies?
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Explanation:
• Aston and Mick are the two brothers in The Caretaker.
• Aston brings Davies into the room and offers him shelter, while Mick alternately threatens and questions him.
• The uncertain relationship among the three men creates the play's power struggle.
• The other pairs belong to different Pinter plays.
• Aston brings Davies into the room and offers him shelter, while Mick alternately threatens and questions him.
• The uncertain relationship among the three men creates the play's power struggle.
• The other pairs belong to different Pinter plays.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which statement best explains the dramatic function of Pinter's pauses and silences?
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Explanation:
• Pinter's pauses and silences are structured elements of the dialogue.
• They may signal concealed thought, intimidation, emotional distance or a struggle for control.
• What remains unsaid can be as important as spoken language.
• Their meaning depends on performance context rather than on one fixed interpretation.
• They may signal concealed thought, intimidation, emotional distance or a struggle for control.
• What remains unsaid can be as important as spoken language.
• Their meaning depends on performance context rather than on one fixed interpretation.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which Tom Stoppard play places two minor characters from Hamlet at the centre of the action?
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Explanation:
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead relocates two minor characters from Hamlet to the centre of the drama.
• The play combines Shakespearean intertextuality with absurdist repetition and philosophical comedy.
• The protagonists struggle to understand events whose larger script they cannot control.
• The work is a major example of Stoppard's metatheatre.
• The play combines Shakespearean intertextuality with absurdist repetition and philosophical comedy.
• The protagonists struggle to understand events whose larger script they cannot control.
• The work is a major example of Stoppard's metatheatre.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
At the beginning of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which improbable event repeatedly occurs?
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Explanation:
• A tossed coin repeatedly lands heads at the beginning of the play.
• The improbable sequence unsettles ordinary expectations about chance and probability.
• It introduces the protagonists' uncertainty about the rules governing their world.
• The event also anticipates the play's concern with fate and scripted existence.
• The improbable sequence unsettles ordinary expectations about chance and probability.
• It introduces the protagonists' uncertainty about the rules governing their world.
• The event also anticipates the play's concern with fate and scripted existence.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Metatheatre is best defined as drama that
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Explanation:
• Metatheatre draws attention to drama as performance, representation and constructed illusion.
• It may use plays within plays, role-playing, direct address or characters aware of theatrical conventions.
• Stoppard frequently uses metatheatre to explore identity, knowledge and artistic creation.
• The technique does not eliminate performance but makes its mechanisms visible.
• It may use plays within plays, role-playing, direct address or characters aware of theatrical conventions.
• Stoppard frequently uses metatheatre to explore identity, knowledge and artistic creation.
• The technique does not eliminate performance but makes its mechanisms visible.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which Stoppard play juxtaposes events in a nineteenth-century country house with investigations conducted in the same house in the present?
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Explanation:
• Arcadia alternates between the early nineteenth century and the modern period.
• Characters in the present attempt to reconstruct the past from incomplete evidence.
• The play brings together mathematics, literature, history, desire and theories of order and disorder.
• Its double time structure demonstrates Stoppard's experimental dramatic technique.
• Characters in the present attempt to reconstruct the past from incomplete evidence.
• The play brings together mathematics, literature, history, desire and theories of order and disorder.
• Its double time structure demonstrates Stoppard's experimental dramatic technique.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which playwright wrote Top Girls?
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Explanation:
• Caryl Churchill wrote Top Girls.
• The play examines feminism, career success, class inequality, family responsibility and the costs of individual advancement.
• Its formal experiments include overlapping dialogue and a historically impossible dinner party.
• Sarah Kane belongs to a later generation of experimental British dramatists.
• The play examines feminism, career success, class inequality, family responsibility and the costs of individual advancement.
• Its formal experiments include overlapping dialogue and a historically impossible dinner party.
• Sarah Kane belongs to a later generation of experimental British dramatists.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Who hosts the opening dinner party in Top Girls?
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Explanation:
• Marlene hosts the opening dinner party to celebrate her promotion at the Top Girls employment agency.
• Her guests are women drawn from history, literature, art and legend.
• Their stories complicate any simple idea of female achievement.
• The scene connects feminist history with contemporary questions about power and class.
• Her guests are women drawn from history, literature, art and legend.
• Their stories complicate any simple idea of female achievement.
• The scene connects feminist history with contemporary questions about power and class.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which Churchill play uses cross-gender and cross-racial casting to examine colonialism, gender and sexuality?
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Explanation:
• Cloud Nine uses deliberately non-naturalistic casting to expose gender and racial identities as socially performed.
• Its first act is set in colonial Africa, while the second shifts to modern London.
• The characters age unevenly across the time gap, reinforcing the play's experimental form.
• Churchill links private sexuality with imperial and patriarchal power.
• Its first act is set in colonial Africa, while the second shifts to modern London.
• The characters age unevenly across the time gap, reinforcing the play's experimental form.
• Churchill links private sexuality with imperial and patriarchal power.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Consider the following statements about Top Girls.
Statement I: The opening dinner brings together women from different historical and fictional contexts.
Statement II: The play presents professional success as entirely separate from class and family responsibility.
Choose the correct answer.
Statement I: The opening dinner brings together women from different historical and fictional contexts.
Statement II: The play presents professional success as entirely separate from class and family responsibility.
Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Marlene's guests come from history, literature, painting and legend.
• Statement II is incorrect because the conflict between Marlene and Joyce directly connects career success with class and family sacrifice.
• The play questions versions of feminism based only on individual advancement.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because the conflict between Marlene and Joyce directly connects career success with class and family sacrifice.
• The play questions versions of feminism based only on individual advancement.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which Sarah Kane play begins in a hotel room before transforming into an extreme landscape of war and violence?
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Explanation:
• Blasted begins in a hotel room with Ian and Cate.
• The apparently private setting is violently disrupted when war enters the room.
• Kane connects personal abuse with larger structures of military and political violence.
• The transformation challenges the separation between domestic realism and public catastrophe.
• The apparently private setting is violently disrupted when war enters the room.
• Kane connects personal abuse with larger structures of military and political violence.
• The transformation challenges the separation between domestic realism and public catastrophe.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which term became associated with the confrontational British theatre of the 1990s represented by writers such as Sarah Kane?
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Explanation:
• In-yer-face theatre is associated with confrontational British drama of the 1990s.
• It frequently uses explicit violence, sexuality and disturbing situations to challenge audience comfort.
• Sarah Kane is commonly discussed in relation to this tendency, though her work cannot be reduced to one label.
• The term identifies an audience experience and theatrical intensity rather than a fixed manifesto.
• It frequently uses explicit violence, sexuality and disturbing situations to challenge audience comfort.
• Sarah Kane is commonly discussed in relation to this tendency, though her work cannot be reduced to one label.
• The term identifies an audience experience and theatrical intensity rather than a fixed manifesto.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which formal feature distinguishes 4.48 Psychosis from a conventionally structured realist play?
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Explanation:
• 4.48 Psychosis does not assign all its lines to fixed named characters.
• The text leaves directors and performers considerable freedom in distributing voices.
• Its fragmented form uses numbers, lists, lyric passages and clinical language.
• This openness makes the play a major example of experimental performance writing.
• The text leaves directors and performers considerable freedom in distributing voices.
• Its fragmented form uses numbers, lists, lyric passages and clinical language.
• This openness makes the play a major example of experimental performance writing.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Assertion: Churchill's feminist theatre frequently experiments with dramatic form.
Reason: Techniques such as overlapping dialogue, non-linear chronology and unconventional casting help expose gender and power as constructed relations.
Choose the correct answer.
Reason: Techniques such as overlapping dialogue, non-linear chronology and unconventional casting help expose gender and power as constructed relations.
Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Churchill repeatedly rejects conventional linear realism.
• The Reason is correct because her formal techniques make social structures visible rather than treating them as natural.
• Overlapping speech, temporal disruption and cross-casting are central to plays such as Top Girls and Cloud Nine.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because her formal techniques make social structures visible rather than treating them as natural.
• Overlapping speech, temporal disruption and cross-casting are central to plays such as Top Girls and Cloud Nine.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which of the following statements about postwar British social realism are correct?
1. It frequently uses recognisable working-class or lower-middle-class settings.
2. It examines class frustration, domestic conflict and institutional inequality.
3. It always rejects colloquial language in favour of heroic verse.
4. Look Back in Anger became an important landmark in its development.
1. It frequently uses recognisable working-class or lower-middle-class settings.
2. It examines class frustration, domestic conflict and institutional inequality.
3. It always rejects colloquial language in favour of heroic verse.
4. Look Back in Anger became an important landmark in its development.
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because social realism often places ordinary homes and workplaces onstage.
• Statement 2 is correct because class, marriage, work and social mobility become central conflicts.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because colloquial and regionally marked speech is often important to the form.
• Statement 4 is correct because Look Back in Anger became a landmark of postwar theatrical change.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because class, marriage, work and social mobility become central conflicts.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because colloquial and regionally marked speech is often important to the form.
• Statement 4 is correct because Look Back in Anger became a landmark of postwar theatrical change.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. John Osborne
2. Harold Pinter
3. Tom Stoppard
4. Caryl Churchill
List II
P. Top Girls
Q. Look Back in Anger
R. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
S. The Caretaker
Choose the correct code.
List I
1. John Osborne
2. Harold Pinter
3. Tom Stoppard
4. Caryl Churchill
List II
P. Top Girls
Q. Look Back in Anger
R. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
S. The Caretaker
Choose the correct code.
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Explanation:
• John Osborne matches Q because he wrote Look Back in Anger.
• Harold Pinter matches S because he wrote The Caretaker.
• Tom Stoppard matches R because he wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
• Caryl Churchill matches P because she wrote Top Girls.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-Q, 2-S, 3-R, 4-P.
• Harold Pinter matches S because he wrote The Caretaker.
• Tom Stoppard matches R because he wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
• Caryl Churchill matches P because she wrote Top Girls.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-Q, 2-S, 3-R, 4-P.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Arrange the following plays in chronological order of first performance.
1. Top Girls
2. Look Back in Anger
3. Blasted
4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
1. Top Girls
2. Look Back in Anger
3. Blasted
4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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Explanation:
• Look Back in Anger was first performed in 1956.
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead received its first full production in 1966.
• Top Girls was first performed in 1982.
• Blasted was first performed in 1995.
• The correct sequence is 2, 4, 1, 3.
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead received its first full production in 1966.
• Top Girls was first performed in 1982.
• Blasted was first performed in 1995.
• The correct sequence is 2, 4, 1, 3.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• The pair Vladimir — protagonist of The Caretaker is incorrect.
• Vladimir is one of the two waiting tramps in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
• The Caretaker centres on Davies, Aston and Mick.
• Jimmy Porter, Stanley Webber and Marlene are correctly matched with their respective plays.
• Vladimir is one of the two waiting tramps in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
• The Caretaker centres on Davies, Aston and Mick.
• Jimmy Porter, Stanley Webber and Marlene are correctly matched with their respective plays.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which comparison among Osborne, Pinter, Stoppard, Churchill and Kane is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• Osborne's drama gives forceful expression to class frustration and postwar dissatisfaction.
• Pinter turns ordinary speech, silence and uncertainty into struggles for power.
• Stoppard uses metatheatre, intertextuality and philosophical play.
• Churchill combines feminist and political analysis with radical experiments in form.
• Kane confronts violence, trauma and psychic fragmentation through highly experimental performance writing.
• Pinter turns ordinary speech, silence and uncertainty into struggles for power.
• Stoppard uses metatheatre, intertextuality and philosophical play.
• Churchill combines feminist and political analysis with radical experiments in form.
• Kane confronts violence, trauma and psychic fragmentation through highly experimental performance writing.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Look Back in Anger సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. Jimmy Porter సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Reading the newspapers and ironing clothes సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. A loose label for postwar writers expressing class resentment and social disillusionment సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. The Birthday Party సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. Comedy of menace సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: A. Aston and Mick సమాధానం: A.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. They can communicate hesitation, aggression, resistance and shifts in power. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: A. A coin repeatedly lands heads. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. draws attention to its own theatrical status and conventions సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Arcadia సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Caryl Churchill సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Marlene సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. Cloud Nine సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: A. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: A.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: C. Blasted సమాధానం: C.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: D. In-yer-face theatre సమాధానం: D.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. It lacks fixed named characters and a clearly prescribed distribution of voices. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. 1-Q, 2-S, 3-R, 4-P సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: A. 2, 4, 1, 3 సమాధానం: A.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. Vladimir — protagonist of The Caretaker సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: B. Osborne foregrounds postwar class anger, Pinter explores menace and unstable communication, Stoppard uses intellectual metatheatre, Churchill joins political critique with formal innovation, and Kane pushes theatrical representation toward extreme fragmentation and violence. సమాధానం: B.