Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which statement best defines poststructuralism?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Poststructuralism questions the possibility of completely stable structures and final meanings.
• It emphasizes textual plurality, difference, discourse and the instability of signification.
• It develops partly through a critique of structuralism rather than through a total rejection of linguistic analysis.
• Authorial intention is not restored as the final interpretive authority.
• It emphasizes textual plurality, difference, discourse and the instability of signification.
• It develops partly through a critique of structuralism rather than through a total rejection of linguistic analysis.
• Authorial intention is not restored as the final interpretive authority.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Poststructuralists most commonly challenge which structuralist assumption?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Poststructuralism challenges the belief that underlying systems can be fully stabilized and objectively mapped.
• It retains the structuralist insight that meaning is relational.
• However, it argues that relations themselves remain mobile, contested and open to reinterpretation.
• The critique therefore targets structural stability rather than every structuralist insight.
• It retains the structuralist insight that meaning is relational.
• However, it argues that relations themselves remain mobile, contested and open to reinterpretation.
• The critique therefore targets structural stability rather than every structuralist insight.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which claim best expresses the poststructuralist view of meaning?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Poststructuralism treats meaning as produced rather than simply discovered.
• Signs gain significance through changing relations, differences and contexts.
• No dictionary, author or structure can guarantee an absolutely final interpretation.
• This does not mean that interpretation is random; meanings remain shaped by textual and discursive constraints.
• Signs gain significance through changing relations, differences and contexts.
• No dictionary, author or structure can guarantee an absolutely final interpretation.
• This does not mean that interpretation is random; meanings remain shaped by textual and discursive constraints.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
In poststructuralist theory, textuality refers most accurately to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Textuality describes the production of meaning through signifying relations rather than through direct access to an unmediated reality.
• A text is connected with other texts, codes and discourses.
• The concept therefore exceeds the physical form of a printed object.
• It also resists the idea that an author's works necessarily possess a single moral unity.
• A text is connected with other texts, codes and discourses.
• The concept therefore exceeds the physical form of a printed object.
• It also resists the idea that an author's works necessarily possess a single moral unity.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
What does intertextuality emphasize?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Intertextuality emphasizes that texts are formed from prior texts, conventions, genres and cultural codes.
• Meaning emerges through quotation, transformation, echo, allusion and difference.
• The concept weakens the image of the work as an isolated and wholly original object.
• It also challenges the author as the sole origin of textual meaning.
• Meaning emerges through quotation, transformation, echo, allusion and difference.
• The concept weakens the image of the work as an isolated and wholly original object.
• It also challenges the author as the sole origin of textual meaning.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which description best fits the poststructuralist account of subjectivity?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Poststructuralism often treats subjectivity as constructed through language, discourse and institutions.
• The subject is neither wholly autonomous nor transparently self-present.
• Social categories and available discourses shape how individuals understand themselves.
• This view distinguishes the subject from a merely biological individual.
• The subject is neither wholly autonomous nor transparently self-present.
• Social categories and available discourses shape how individuals understand themselves.
• This view distinguishes the subject from a merely biological individual.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which thinker is most closely associated with the concept of différance?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Jacques Derrida introduced différance to describe the differing and deferring movement of meaning.
• A sign has meaning through differences from other signs, yet its meaning is never fully present or finally completed.
• Barthes and Foucault are major poststructuralist thinkers but are not the originators of this term.
• Propp belongs primarily to structuralist narratology.
• A sign has meaning through differences from other signs, yet its meaning is never fully present or finally completed.
• Barthes and Foucault are major poststructuralist thinkers but are not the originators of this term.
• Propp belongs primarily to structuralist narratology.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
What is the main implication of Derrida's critique of a transcendental signified?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A transcendental signified would function as a final meaning that ends the movement of interpretation.
• Derrida questions the existence of such an ultimate centre outside the system of signs.
• Meaning therefore remains involved in further differences and references.
• His critique does not claim that words never refer, but that reference cannot produce absolute semantic closure.
• Derrida questions the existence of such an ultimate centre outside the system of signs.
• Meaning therefore remains involved in further differences and references.
• His critique does not claim that words never refer, but that reference cannot produce absolute semantic closure.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which statement best reflects Barthes's poststructuralist position on authorship?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Barthes rejects the author as the final origin and guarantee of textual meaning.
• Reading activates multiple cultural codes and textual relations.
• This position does not deny that authorship has historical or institutional importance.
• It denies that biography or intention can close interpretation.
• Reading activates multiple cultural codes and textual relations.
• This position does not deny that authorship has historical or institutional importance.
• It denies that biography or intention can close interpretation.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
In Michel Foucault's work, discourse is best understood as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Foucault uses discourse for historically organized systems that determine what can be said, known and treated as true.
• Discourses help constitute their objects rather than merely describing pre-existing facts.
• They operate through institutions, practices and rules of formation.
• Discourse is therefore more than casual speech or individual vocabulary.
• Discourses help constitute their objects rather than merely describing pre-existing facts.
• They operate through institutions, practices and rules of formation.
• Discourse is therefore more than casual speech or individual vocabulary.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which pair is correctly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Foucault develops the concept of the author-function in his discussion of authorship.
• The seven spheres of action belong to Vladimir Propp.
• Panopticism is associated with Foucault rather than Barthes.
• The death of the author is associated with Roland Barthes rather than Propp.
• The seven spheres of action belong to Vladimir Propp.
• Panopticism is associated with Foucault rather than Barthes.
• The death of the author is associated with Roland Barthes rather than Propp.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which pair is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The transcendental signified is a concept critically examined by Jacques Derrida, not a concept primarily associated with Barthes.
• Barthes is correctly linked with textual plurality and the death of the author.
• Derrida is correctly linked with deconstruction.
• Foucault is correctly linked with the relation among discourse, knowledge and power.
• Barthes is correctly linked with textual plurality and the death of the author.
• Derrida is correctly linked with deconstruction.
• Foucault is correctly linked with the relation among discourse, knowledge and power.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Consider the following statements.
Statement I: Structuralism generally seeks underlying systems that organize meaning.
Statement II: Poststructuralism questions whether those systems can ever be completely stable or closed.
Statement I: Structuralism generally seeks underlying systems that organize meaning.
Statement II: Poststructuralism questions whether those systems can ever be completely stable or closed.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because structuralism investigates relational systems, codes and underlying structures.
• Statement II is correct because poststructuralism stresses instability, internal difference and resistance to closure.
• Poststructuralism develops from structuralist insights while questioning structural totalization.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
• Statement II is correct because poststructuralism stresses instability, internal difference and resistance to closure.
• Poststructuralism develops from structuralist insights while questioning structural totalization.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Assertion: Poststructuralism does not simply return to the idea that words have natural and self-evident meanings.
Reason: It retains the structuralist insight that signs acquire value through relations and differences.
Reason: It retains the structuralist insight that signs acquire value through relations and differences.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because poststructuralism rejects natural and self-sufficient meanings.
• The Reason is correct because it retains the relational account of signification inherited from structuralism.
• That relational account directly explains why meanings cannot be treated as naturally present in words.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because it retains the relational account of signification inherited from structuralism.
• That relational account directly explains why meanings cannot be treated as naturally present in words.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Roland Barthes
2. Jacques Derrida
3. Michel Foucault
4. Poststructuralist subject
List II
I. Produced through discourse and social relations
II. Death of the author
III. Différance
IV. Author-function
List I
1. Roland Barthes
2. Jacques Derrida
3. Michel Foucault
4. Poststructuralist subject
List II
I. Produced through discourse and social relations
II. Death of the author
III. Différance
IV. Author-function
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Roland Barthes matches II because he argues for the death of the author as final interpretive authority.
• Jacques Derrida matches III because différance is central to his account of unstable signification.
• Michel Foucault matches IV because he analyses authorship as an author-function.
• The poststructuralist subject matches I because subjectivity is produced through discourse and social relations.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-II, 2-III, 3-IV, 4-I.
• Jacques Derrida matches III because différance is central to his account of unstable signification.
• Michel Foucault matches IV because he analyses authorship as an author-function.
• The poststructuralist subject matches I because subjectivity is produced through discourse and social relations.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-II, 2-III, 3-IV, 4-I.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which statement most accurately distinguishes plurality from interpretive randomness?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Poststructuralist plurality allows more than one defensible interpretation.
• It does not mean that evidence, language, genre and historical discourse become irrelevant.
• Readings remain open to evaluation according to their explanatory force and textual support.
• Plurality therefore differs from the claim that every interpretation is equally valid.
• It does not mean that evidence, language, genre and historical discourse become irrelevant.
• Readings remain open to evaluation according to their explanatory force and textual support.
• Plurality therefore differs from the claim that every interpretation is equally valid.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
A critic shows that a text's opposition between civilized and primitive depends on suppressing similarities between the two terms. Which method is being applied?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The critic examines how a hierarchical binary is constructed and destabilized.
• Poststructuralist analysis often reveals that the privileged term depends on what it excludes.
• Similarities and internal contradictions can unsettle the apparent stability of the opposition.
• The method is not primarily biographical, prosodic or concerned with sources.
• Poststructuralist analysis often reveals that the privileged term depends on what it excludes.
• Similarities and internal contradictions can unsettle the apparent stability of the opposition.
• The method is not primarily biographical, prosodic or concerned with sources.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which concept best describes the remaining mark of other signs within the apparent identity of a sign?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Derrida's concept of the trace indicates that a sign carries the effects of other signs from which it differs.
• No sign is fully self-contained or purely present to itself.
• Meaning therefore depends on absences as well as present marks.
• Parole, mimesis and catharsis belong to different theoretical traditions.
• No sign is fully self-contained or purely present to itself.
• Meaning therefore depends on absences as well as present marks.
• Parole, mimesis and catharsis belong to different theoretical traditions.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which claim best represents Foucault's view of the relation between power and knowledge?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Foucault treats power and knowledge as mutually implicated rather than completely separate.
• Institutions and discourses produce categories, norms and objects of knowledge.
• Knowledge in turn supports practices of classification, regulation and discipline.
• Power is productive as well as restrictive.
• Institutions and discourses produce categories, norms and objects of knowledge.
• Knowledge in turn supports practices of classification, regulation and discipline.
• Power is productive as well as restrictive.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which statement about Foucault's author-function is most accurate?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The author-function describes how societies classify, circulate and regulate certain discourses through an author's name.
• It is not identical with the empirical writer or private intention.
• Foucault does not claim that historical writers never existed.
• The concept reveals authorship as an institutional and discursive function.
• It is not identical with the empirical writer or private intention.
• Foucault does not claim that historical writers never existed.
• The concept reveals authorship as an institutional and discursive function.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Poststructuralism questions the possibility of final semantic closure.
2. Intertextuality treats texts as isolated creations.
3. Foucault examines the production of subjects through discourse.
4. Derrida challenges hierarchical binary oppositions.
1. Poststructuralism questions the possibility of final semantic closure.
2. Intertextuality treats texts as isolated creations.
3. Foucault examines the production of subjects through discourse.
4. Derrida challenges hierarchical binary oppositions.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because poststructuralism emphasizes the instability and openness of meaning.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because intertextuality treats texts as connected with other texts and codes.
• Statement 3 is correct because Foucault examines how discourses and institutions constitute subjects.
• Statement 4 is correct because Derridean analysis exposes and destabilizes hierarchical oppositions.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because intertextuality treats texts as connected with other texts and codes.
• Statement 3 is correct because Foucault examines how discourses and institutions constitute subjects.
• Statement 4 is correct because Derridean analysis exposes and destabilizes hierarchical oppositions.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which comparison between structuralism and poststructuralism is most accurate?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Structuralism commonly seeks to describe the relations and rules that organize a system.
• Poststructuralism investigates how such systems fail to achieve complete stability or closure.
• Both approaches take language and signification seriously.
• The difference is therefore not a simple opposition between studying and rejecting language.
• Poststructuralism investigates how such systems fail to achieve complete stability or closure.
• Both approaches take language and signification seriously.
• The difference is therefore not a simple opposition between studying and rejecting language.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Assertion: Poststructuralist criticism often treats interpretation as an ongoing process.
Reason: Each sign refers to other signs, preventing a final meaning from becoming fully self-present.
Reason: Each sign refers to other signs, preventing a final meaning from becoming fully self-present.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because poststructuralism resists the idea of a final interpretive stopping point.
• The Reason is correct because signs gain meaning through further signs, differences and contexts.
• This relational movement directly explains why interpretation remains open and revisable.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because signs gain meaning through further signs, differences and contexts.
• This relational movement directly explains why interpretation remains open and revisable.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which sequence gives the correct chronological order of the following works?
1. Mythologies
2. The Order of Things
3. Of Grammatology
4. S/Z
1. Mythologies
2. The Order of Things
3. Of Grammatology
4. S/Z
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Mythologies by Roland Barthes appeared in 1957.
• The Order of Things by Michel Foucault appeared in French in 1966.
• Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida appeared in French in 1967.
• S/Z by Roland Barthes appeared in 1970.
• The complete chronological sequence is therefore 1, 2, 3, 4.
• The Order of Things by Michel Foucault appeared in French in 1966.
• Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida appeared in French in 1967.
• S/Z by Roland Barthes appeared in 1970.
• The complete chronological sequence is therefore 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
A novel repeatedly changes the meaning of the word home through memories, political slogans, advertisements and earlier literary works. Which poststructuralist concept best explains this process?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The word home acquires different meanings through its relation to memories, slogans, advertisements and prior texts.
• Intertextuality explains the circulation of earlier textual traces, while discourse explains socially organized meanings.
• Their interaction produces plurality rather than one fixed definition.
• Organic unity and objective correlative belong to different critical traditions.
• Intertextuality explains the circulation of earlier textual traces, while discourse explains socially organized meanings.
• Their interaction produces plurality rather than one fixed definition.
• Organic unity and objective correlative belong to different critical traditions.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. A critique of stable structures and fixed meanings in language and culture సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: C. Underlying systems can be analysed as stable and coherent totalities సమాధానం: C.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: D. Meaning is produced through shifting relations, differences and contexts సమాధానం: D.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: A. The condition in which meaning is produced through networks of signs and texts సమాధానం: A.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. Texts acquire meaning through relations with other texts and cultural codes సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. The subject is produced through language, discourse and social relations సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: D. Jacques Derrida సమాధానం: D.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: A. No final meaning exists outside the play of signs to stabilize every interpretation సమాధానం: A.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: C. The reader activates multiple meanings that cannot be reduced to authorial origin సమాధానం: C.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. A system of statements and practices that produces objects of knowledge సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: A. Michel Foucault — author-function సమాధానం: A.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Roland Barthes — transcendental signified సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. 1-II, 2-III, 3-IV, 4-I సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Plurality permits multiple meanings while interpretations remain answerable to textual and discursive evidence సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. Poststructuralist critique of binary opposition సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. Trace సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. Knowledge is produced within relations of power and also helps organize them సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. It describes the cultural and institutional operations attached to the author's name సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. 1, 3 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. Structuralism tends to map systems, whereas poststructuralism stresses their internal instability సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. Intertextual and discursive plurality సమాధానం: C.