Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which American dramatist wrote The Hairy Ape?
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Explanation:
• Eugene O'Neill wrote The Hairy Ape, which was first performed in 1922.
• The play combines social criticism with expressionistic dramatic techniques.
• It explores industrial labour, class division, identity and alienation.
• Miller, Albee and Williams belong to later phases of modern American drama.
• The play combines social criticism with expressionistic dramatic techniques.
• It explores industrial labour, class division, identity and alienation.
• Miller, Albee and Williams belong to later phases of modern American drama.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
What is Yank's occupation at the beginning of The Hairy Ape?
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Explanation:
• Yank works as a stoker in the fire room of an ocean liner.
• His physical strength initially gives him confidence that he belongs to the modern industrial machine.
• The harsh working environment reduces labourers to instruments of production.
• His later crisis begins when his belief in belonging is challenged.
• His physical strength initially gives him confidence that he belongs to the modern industrial machine.
• The harsh working environment reduces labourers to instruments of production.
• His later crisis begins when his belief in belonging is challenged.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Who calls Yank a filthy beast after visiting the stokehole in The Hairy Ape?
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Explanation:
• Mildred Douglas is the wealthy daughter of a steel magnate.
• She visits the stokehole as an observer of working-class life but reacts to Yank with horror.
• Her description of him as a beast destroys his confidence and intensifies his class consciousness.
• The encounter exposes the separation between industrial wealth and industrial labour.
• She visits the stokehole as an observer of working-class life but reacts to Yank with horror.
• Her description of him as a beast destroys his confidence and intensifies his class consciousness.
• The encounter exposes the separation between industrial wealth and industrial labour.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which interpretation best explains the title The Hairy Ape?
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Explanation:
• Yank is repeatedly associated with animal strength and primitive physical energy.
• Industrial society values his labour while denying him a secure human identity.
• His attempt to identify with the gorilla ends in death rather than companionship.
• The title therefore expresses dehumanisation, social exclusion and failed belonging.
• Industrial society values his labour while denying him a secure human identity.
• His attempt to identify with the gorilla ends in death rather than companionship.
• The title therefore expresses dehumanisation, social exclusion and failed belonging.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which play by Arthur Miller centres on the failing salesman Willy Loman?
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Explanation:
• Death of a Salesman centres on Willy Loman and his family.
• Willy's faith in popularity and personal attractiveness conflicts with economic reality.
• The play examines family conflict, memory, failure and the American Dream.
• Miller combines realistic domestic scenes with fluid movements into Willy's past.
• Willy's faith in popularity and personal attractiveness conflicts with economic reality.
• The play examines family conflict, memory, failure and the American Dream.
• Miller combines realistic domestic scenes with fluid movements into Willy's past.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
What is Willy Loman's profession in Death of a Salesman?
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Explanation:
• Willy Loman has spent many years working as a travelling salesman.
• His profession shapes his belief that being well liked guarantees material success.
• As his sales decline, his employer treats him as economically disposable.
• Willy's career becomes a critique of competition and unstable employment.
• His profession shapes his belief that being well liked guarantees material success.
• As his sales decline, his employer treats him as economically disposable.
• Willy's career becomes a critique of competition and unstable employment.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
What discovery in Boston destroys Biff's idealised image of his father?
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Explanation:
• Biff visits Willy in Boston and discovers him with another woman.
• The revelation destroys Biff's belief in Willy's moral authority.
• It also contributes to Biff's failure to complete his education and follow the career expected of him.
• The concealed event lies beneath much of the conflict between father and son.
• The revelation destroys Biff's belief in Willy's moral authority.
• It also contributes to Biff's failure to complete his education and follow the career expected of him.
• The concealed event lies beneath much of the conflict between father and son.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which character regularly lends Willy money while allowing him to pretend that it is his own salary?
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Explanation:
• Charley is Willy's neighbour and one of his most reliable sources of practical help.
• He lends Willy money even when Willy behaves resentfully toward him.
• Charley also offers Willy a job, but Willy's pride prevents him from accepting it.
• His generosity contrasts with Willy's competitive and unrealistic values.
• He lends Willy money even when Willy behaves resentfully toward him.
• Charley also offers Willy a job, but Willy's pride prevents him from accepting it.
• His generosity contrasts with Willy's competitive and unrealistic values.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which statement best expresses Death of a Salesman's criticism of the American Dream?
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Explanation:
• Willy equates personal value with commercial success and social popularity.
• He passes this belief to Biff and Happy, producing confusion and disappointment.
• The play exposes the psychological cost of measuring human worth through economic achievement.
• Biff's final insight depends on recognising the falseness of the family's exaggerated dreams.
• He passes this belief to Biff and Happy, producing confusion and disappointment.
• The play exposes the psychological cost of measuring human worth through economic achievement.
• Biff's final insight depends on recognising the falseness of the family's exaggerated dreams.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
In which essay did Arthur Miller defend the possibility of tragedy centred on an ordinary person?
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Explanation:
• Arthur Miller presented his argument in Tragedy and the Common Man.
• He maintained that tragic dignity is not limited to kings or aristocratic heroes.
• An ordinary person can become tragic by struggling to preserve a threatened sense of identity.
• The essay provides an important critical context for Death of a Salesman.
• He maintained that tragic dignity is not limited to kings or aristocratic heroes.
• An ordinary person can become tragic by struggling to preserve a threatened sense of identity.
• The essay provides an important critical context for Death of a Salesman.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Who arrives in New Orleans to stay with Stella and Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the Kowalski home in New Orleans.
• She has lost the family estate and seeks refuge with her sister Stella.
• Her cultivated manner and dependence on illusion bring her into conflict with Stanley.
• Blanche's arrival initiates the play's central domestic struggle.
• She has lost the family estate and seeks refuge with her sister Stella.
• Her cultivated manner and dependence on illusion bring her into conflict with Stanley.
• Blanche's arrival initiates the play's central domestic struggle.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
What is the name of Stanley Kowalski's wife in A Streetcar Named Desire?
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Explanation:
• Stella Kowalski is Stanley's wife and Blanche's younger sister.
• She is caught between her loyalty to Blanche and her powerful attachment to Stanley.
• Her pregnancy increases her dependence on the domestic relationship.
• Stella's final decision contributes to Blanche's isolation and removal.
• She is caught between her loyalty to Blanche and her powerful attachment to Stanley.
• Her pregnancy increases her dependence on the domestic relationship.
• Stella's final decision contributes to Blanche's isolation and removal.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
What is Belle Reve in A Streetcar Named Desire?
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Explanation:
• Belle Reve is the ancestral plantation associated with Blanche and Stella's family.
• Blanche explains that the estate was lost through debt, death and family decline.
• Its disappearance symbolises the collapse of an older Southern social order.
• Stanley's investigation of the property reflects his suspicion and concern about inheritance.
• Blanche explains that the estate was lost through debt, death and family decline.
• Its disappearance symbolises the collapse of an older Southern social order.
• Stanley's investigation of the property reflects his suspicion and concern about inheritance.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
What does the paper lantern placed over the light bulb chiefly symbolise in A Streetcar Named Desire?
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Explanation:
• Blanche covers the harsh light because she fears exposure and ageing.
• The paper lantern represents her effort to soften reality through illusion and performance.
• Mitch's removal of the lantern symbolically exposes the facts she has attempted to conceal.
• The conflict between light and shadow supports the play's opposition between truth and illusion.
• The paper lantern represents her effort to soften reality through illusion and performance.
• Mitch's removal of the lantern symbolically exposes the facts she has attempted to conceal.
• The conflict between light and shadow supports the play's opposition between truth and illusion.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Where does the action of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story take place?
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Explanation:
• The Zoo Story takes place near a bench in Central Park, New York City.
• The limited setting concentrates attention on the encounter between two strangers.
• Jerry interrupts Peter's quiet reading and gradually takes control of the conversation.
• The public park becomes a space for examining isolation, territory and failed communication.
• The limited setting concentrates attention on the encounter between two strangers.
• Jerry interrupts Peter's quiet reading and gradually takes control of the conversation.
• The public park becomes a space for examining isolation, territory and failed communication.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Who listens to Jerry's stories in The Zoo Story?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Peter is a middle-class publishing executive who is reading alone when Jerry approaches him.
• Jerry questions him about his family, possessions and comfortable life.
• Their conversation reveals deep differences of class and experience.
• Peter is ultimately drawn into a violent encounter he neither expected nor fully understands.
• Jerry questions him about his family, possessions and comfortable life.
• Their conversation reveals deep differences of class and experience.
• Peter is ultimately drawn into a violent encounter he neither expected nor fully understands.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which description best characterises the dramatic structure of The Zoo Story?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Zoo Story is structured as an intense one-act encounter between Jerry and Peter.
• Jerry's fragmented stories gradually reveal his loneliness and desire for meaningful contact.
• The struggle over the bench turns communication into physical conflict.
• The concentrated form contributes to the play's examination of alienation in modern urban life.
• Jerry's fragmented stories gradually reveal his loneliness and desire for meaningful contact.
• The struggle over the bench turns communication into physical conflict.
• The concentrated form contributes to the play's examination of alienation in modern urban life.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which play by Lorraine Hansberry portrays the Younger family's attempt to improve its life in racially segregated Chicago?
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Explanation:
• A Raisin in the Sun centres on the African American Younger family in Chicago.
• An insurance payment creates competing dreams involving housing, education and business.
• The family's plan to move into a white neighbourhood exposes institutional racism.
• The play connects racial justice with dignity, family conflict and the American Dream.
• An insurance payment creates competing dreams involving housing, education and business.
• The family's plan to move into a white neighbourhood exposes institutional racism.
• The play connects racial justice with dignity, family conflict and the American Dream.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
The title A Raisin in the Sun is derived from a poem by
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The title comes from Langston Hughes's poem Harlem.
• The poem asks what happens to a dream that is repeatedly postponed.
• Hansberry's play develops this concern through the delayed aspirations of the Younger family.
• The title connects personal hopes with the historical effects of racial inequality.
• The poem asks what happens to a dream that is repeatedly postponed.
• Hansberry's play develops this concern through the delayed aspirations of the Younger family.
• The title connects personal hopes with the historical effects of racial inequality.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
What business does Walter Lee Younger hope to establish with the insurance money?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Walter Lee hopes to invest in a liquor store with his associates.
• He sees the business as a path toward independence, respect and financial power.
• His mother objects partly because of her moral reservations and competing family priorities.
• The investment conflict reveals differing definitions of the American Dream.
• He sees the business as a path toward independence, respect and financial power.
• His mother objects partly because of her moral reservations and competing family priorities.
• The investment conflict reveals differing definitions of the American Dream.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Consider the following statements about A Raisin in the Sun.
Statement I: The Younger family's housing decision brings it into conflict with racial segregation.
Statement II: Karl Lindner offers the family money to prevent it from moving into Clybourne Park.
Choose the correct answer.
Statement I: The Younger family's housing decision brings it into conflict with racial segregation.
Statement II: Karl Lindner offers the family money to prevent it from moving into Clybourne Park.
Choose the correct answer.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because the Youngers purchase a house in a predominantly white neighbourhood.
• Statement II is correct because Karl Lindner represents an association that attempts to buy them out.
• His apparently polite proposal conceals the discriminatory enforcement of residential segregation.
• Therefore, both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
• Statement II is correct because Karl Lindner represents an association that attempts to buy them out.
• His apparently polite proposal conceals the discriminatory enforcement of residential segregation.
• Therefore, both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which of the following statements about Death of a Salesman are correct?
1. Willy frequently moves between present reality and remembered experience.
2. Biff ultimately rejects the false image of success created by his father.
3. Happy fully understands and abandons Willy's dream at the end.
4. Willy believes that insurance money may help Biff achieve success.
1. Willy frequently moves between present reality and remembered experience.
2. Biff ultimately rejects the false image of success created by his father.
3. Happy fully understands and abandons Willy's dream at the end.
4. Willy believes that insurance money may help Biff achieve success.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Willy's memories repeatedly enter and reshape the present action.
• Statement 2 is correct because Biff recognises that the family's inflated self-image is destructive.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because Happy remains committed to proving Willy's dream rather than rejecting it.
• Statement 4 is correct because Willy imagines that his death benefit will finance Biff's future success.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because Biff recognises that the family's inflated self-image is destructive.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because Happy remains committed to proving Willy's dream rather than rejecting it.
• Statement 4 is correct because Willy imagines that his death benefit will finance Biff's future success.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Assertion: Blanche's conflict with Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire extends beyond a simple clash of personalities.
Reason: Their struggle represents competing forms of class, gender, sexuality, memory and social power.
Choose the correct answer.
Reason: Their struggle represents competing forms of class, gender, sexuality, memory and social power.
Choose the correct answer.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Blanche and Stanley embody conflicting social histories and modes of identity.
• The Reason is correct because their struggle involves class resentment, sexual authority, gendered vulnerability and control of the household.
• Blanche depends on memory and illusion, while Stanley insists on exposing and dominating material reality.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because their struggle involves class resentment, sexual authority, gendered vulnerability and control of the household.
• Blanche depends on memory and illusion, while Stanley insists on exposing and dominating material reality.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Yank
2. Willy Loman
3. Blanche DuBois
4. Walter Lee Younger
List II
P. Dreams of investing in a liquor store
Q. Alienated industrial worker
R. Failing travelling salesman
S. Displaced survivor of a declining Southern family
Choose the correct code.
List I
1. Yank
2. Willy Loman
3. Blanche DuBois
4. Walter Lee Younger
List II
P. Dreams of investing in a liquor store
Q. Alienated industrial worker
R. Failing travelling salesman
S. Displaced survivor of a declining Southern family
Choose the correct code.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Yank matches Q because he is an industrial worker who loses his sense of belonging.
• Willy Loman matches R because he is the failing travelling salesman in Miller's tragedy.
• Blanche DuBois matches S because she is displaced after the decline of Belle Reve and her family world.
• Walter Lee Younger matches P because he hopes to invest in a liquor store.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-Q, 2-R, 3-S, 4-P.
• Willy Loman matches R because he is the failing travelling salesman in Miller's tragedy.
• Blanche DuBois matches S because she is displaced after the decline of Belle Reve and her family world.
• Walter Lee Younger matches P because he hopes to invest in a liquor store.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-Q, 2-R, 3-S, 4-P.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Arrange the following plays in chronological order of first performance.
1. A Raisin in the Sun
2. The Hairy Ape
3. Death of a Salesman
4. A Streetcar Named Desire
1. A Raisin in the Sun
2. The Hairy Ape
3. Death of a Salesman
4. A Streetcar Named Desire
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Hairy Ape was first performed in 1922.
• A Streetcar Named Desire was first performed in 1947.
• Death of a Salesman was first performed in 1949.
• A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
• The correct sequence is 2, 4, 3, 1.
• A Streetcar Named Desire was first performed in 1947.
• Death of a Salesman was first performed in 1949.
• A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
• The correct sequence is 2, 4, 3, 1.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Eugene O'Neill సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. He is a stoker on an ocean liner. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Mildred Douglas సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. It reflects the dehumanising image imposed on Yank and his alienation from society. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Death of a Salesman సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Travelling salesman సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Willy is having an extramarital affair. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Charley సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. It shows how success defined only by wealth, popularity and competition can destroy individual identity and family relationships. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Tragedy and the Common Man సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Blanche DuBois సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Stella సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. The DuBois family estate that Blanche has lost సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Blanche's attempt to conceal age, trauma and unwanted reality సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. A bench in Central Park సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Peter సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. A concentrated one-act encounter that moves from conversation to ritualised violence సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. A Raisin in the Sun సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. Langston Hughes సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. A liquor store సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. 1-Q, 2-R, 3-S, 4-P సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. 2, 4, 3, 1 సమాధానం: A.