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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which concept in Marxist theory refers to the economic organization of society, including the forces and relations of production?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The base consists of the forces and relations of production that organize material economic life.
• It includes productive resources, labour arrangements and class relations.
• The superstructure includes institutions and forms such as law, politics and culture.
• Marxist criticism studies how literary production is connected with these material conditions.
• It includes productive resources, labour arrangements and class relations.
• The superstructure includes institutions and forms such as law, politics and culture.
• Marxist criticism studies how literary production is connected with these material conditions.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
In the base and superstructure model, which of the following belongs primarily to the superstructure?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The superstructure includes legal, political, religious and cultural institutions and practices.
• These forms are connected with the material organization of society.
• Factories, machinery and labour relations belong more directly to the economic base.
• Marxist theory does not treat the superstructure as completely independent of material life.
• These forms are connected with the material organization of society.
• Factories, machinery and labour relations belong more directly to the economic base.
• Marxist theory does not treat the superstructure as completely independent of material life.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which statement best defines class in classical Marxist theory?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Class is defined chiefly by a group's relation to the means of production.
• Under capitalism, the bourgeoisie owns productive property, while the proletariat sells labour power.
• Shared taste or legal status may reflect class position but do not define it by themselves.
• Class conflict arises from unequal control over production and surplus value.
• Under capitalism, the bourgeoisie owns productive property, while the proletariat sells labour power.
• Shared taste or legal status may reflect class position but do not define it by themselves.
• Class conflict arises from unequal control over production and surplus value.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which concept describes the separation of workers from the products, processes and human potential of their labour?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Alienation describes the worker's estrangement from the product, the labour process, other people and human creative potential.
• Under capitalism, labour becomes an external and coercive activity.
• Reification is closely related but emphasizes the treatment of social relations as thing-like.
• The concept is central to Marx's early writings on labour.
• Under capitalism, labour becomes an external and coercive activity.
• Reification is closely related but emphasizes the treatment of social relations as thing-like.
• The concept is central to Marx's early writings on labour.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Commodity fetishism occurs when:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Commodity fetishism makes social relations between people appear as natural relations between commodities.
• The labour that produces value is obscured by the apparent autonomy of market objects.
• Commodities seem to possess value as an inherent property.
• Marx analyses this process in Capital.
• The labour that produces value is obscured by the apparent autonomy of market objects.
• Commodities seem to possess value as an inherent property.
• Marx analyses this process in Capital.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
In Marxist theory, ideology most commonly refers to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Ideology consists of ideas, representations and assumptions that shape how social reality is understood.
• It may naturalize or legitimize unequal class relations.
• Ideology is not merely a conscious lie or a private illusion.
• Literature may reproduce, negotiate or challenge ideological meanings.
• It may naturalize or legitimize unequal class relations.
• Ideology is not merely a conscious lie or a private illusion.
• Literature may reproduce, negotiate or challenge ideological meanings.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which Marxist concept refers to the value created by workers beyond the value paid to them as wages?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Surplus value is the difference between the value produced by labour and the value returned to workers as wages.
• Capitalists appropriate this excess within the production process.
• Use value concerns practical utility, while exchange value concerns market equivalence.
• Surplus value is central to Marx's explanation of capitalist exploitation.
• Capitalists appropriate this excess within the production process.
• Use value concerns practical utility, while exchange value concerns market equivalence.
• Surplus value is central to Marx's explanation of capitalist exploitation.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which thinker is most closely associated with the Marxist concepts of totality and reification?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Georg Lukács develops the concepts of totality and reification in Western Marxist theory.
• He argues that capitalism fragments social experience and makes historical relations appear thing-like.
• Totality enables criticism to reconnect isolated phenomena with the broader social whole.
• Freud, Lévi-Strauss and Iser belong to different theoretical traditions.
• He argues that capitalism fragments social experience and makes historical relations appear thing-like.
• Totality enables criticism to reconnect isolated phenomena with the broader social whole.
• Freud, Lévi-Strauss and Iser belong to different theoretical traditions.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
For Georg Lukács, totality is important because it:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Totality connects particular events, characters and forms with the broader historical and social structure.
• Lukács criticizes fragmented analysis that isolates phenomena from the capitalist whole.
• The concept does not make all works politically identical.
• It provides a method for understanding mediation between individual experience and social history.
• Lukács criticizes fragmented analysis that isolates phenomena from the capitalist whole.
• The concept does not make all works politically identical.
• It provides a method for understanding mediation between individual experience and social history.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which literary mode did Lukács generally value for revealing the social totality of a historical period?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Lukács valued realism because it can represent typical characters and conflicts within a broad social totality.
• He especially admired realist writers who connected individual lives with historical class relations.
• He often criticized modernist fragmentation for presenting alienation without adequately revealing its social causes.
• His defence of realism is central to Marxist debates on literary form.
• He especially admired realist writers who connected individual lives with historical class relations.
• He often criticized modernist fragmentation for presenting alienation without adequately revealing its social causes.
• His defence of realism is central to Marxist debates on literary form.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
In Lukács's literary theory, a typical character is one who:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A typical character is a fully individualized figure whose life expresses important social and historical forces.
• Typicality does not mean statistical averageness or lack of complexity.
• The character mediates between personal experience and wider class relations.
• This concept supports Lukács's account of critical realism.
• Typicality does not mean statistical averageness or lack of complexity.
• The character mediates between personal experience and wider class relations.
• This concept supports Lukács's account of critical realism.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which statement best describes reflection theory in Marxist aesthetics?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Reflection theory holds that literature represents or reflects social reality.
• Strong Marxist versions do not require a simple photographic copy; form, selection and mediation shape the reflection.
• Lukács emphasizes the representation of objective social relations through typical situations.
• Literature is therefore connected with material history without being reducible to direct duplication.
• Strong Marxist versions do not require a simple photographic copy; form, selection and mediation shape the reflection.
• Lukács emphasizes the representation of objective social relations through typical situations.
• Literature is therefore connected with material history without being reducible to direct duplication.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Consider the following statements.
Statement I: In classical Marxism, the superstructure is wholly independent of the economic base.
Statement II: Cultural forms may interact with and respond to material social relations.
Statement I: In classical Marxism, the superstructure is wholly independent of the economic base.
Statement II: Cultural forms may interact with and respond to material social relations.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is incorrect because the superstructure is historically connected with the economic base.
• Statement II is correct because cultural forms respond to and may influence material and social relations.
• Marxist theory does not require a crude one-way mechanical determinism.
• Therefore, option C correctly evaluates the two statements.
• Statement II is correct because cultural forms respond to and may influence material and social relations.
• Marxist theory does not require a crude one-way mechanical determinism.
• Therefore, option C correctly evaluates the two statements.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Assertion: Commodity fetishism conceals the labour relations involved in production.
Reason: Commodities appear to possess value independently of the human labour and social relations that produced them.
Reason: Commodities appear to possess value independently of the human labour and social relations that produced them.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because commodity fetishism obscures the human and class relations behind exchange.
• The Reason is correct because commodities appear to carry value as an inherent property.
• This appearance hides the labour process and the social organization of production.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because commodities appear to carry value as an inherent property.
• This appearance hides the labour process and the social organization of production.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Alienation
2. Commodity fetishism
3. Totality
4. Typicality
List II
I. Individualized embodiment of historical contradictions
II. Social relations appearing as relations among things
III. Estrangement from labour and its products
IV. Relation of parts to the structured social whole
List I
1. Alienation
2. Commodity fetishism
3. Totality
4. Typicality
List II
I. Individualized embodiment of historical contradictions
II. Social relations appearing as relations among things
III. Estrangement from labour and its products
IV. Relation of parts to the structured social whole
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Alienation matches III because it involves estrangement from labour, its products and human potential.
• Commodity fetishism matches II because social relations appear as relations among things.
• Totality matches IV because it connects parts with the structured social whole.
• Typicality matches I because an individualized character embodies significant historical contradictions.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-III, 2-II, 3-IV, 4-I.
• Commodity fetishism matches II because social relations appear as relations among things.
• Totality matches IV because it connects parts with the structured social whole.
• Typicality matches I because an individualized character embodies significant historical contradictions.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-III, 2-II, 3-IV, 4-I.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Readerly and writerly texts are concepts associated with Roland Barthes, not Karl Marx.
• Marx is correctly associated with commodity fetishism.
• Lukács is correctly associated with totality and critical realism.
• The incorrect pair is therefore option A.
• Marx is correctly associated with commodity fetishism.
• Lukács is correctly associated with totality and critical realism.
• The incorrect pair is therefore option A.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Alienation concerns estrangement within capitalist labour.
2. Commodity fetishism makes market relations appear natural and autonomous.
3. Lukács treats totality as irrelevant to social analysis.
4. Realism may reveal historical class relations through typical characters.
1. Alienation concerns estrangement within capitalist labour.
2. Commodity fetishism makes market relations appear natural and autonomous.
3. Lukács treats totality as irrelevant to social analysis.
4. Realism may reveal historical class relations through typical characters.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because alienation describes estrangement from work, products and human capacities.
• Statement 2 is correct because commodity fetishism obscures social labour behind the apparent autonomy of commodities.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because totality is central to Lukács's theory.
• Statement 4 is correct because realism can connect typical characters with historical class relations.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because commodity fetishism obscures social labour behind the apparent autonomy of commodities.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because totality is central to Lukács's theory.
• Statement 4 is correct because realism can connect typical characters with historical class relations.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
A novel portrays factory workers as isolated individuals but gradually reveals how wages, ownership and production link their lives. Which Marxist concept best describes this movement?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The novel moves from isolated experiences toward an understanding of the larger social and economic whole.
• This movement exemplifies Lukács's concept of totality.
• Wages, ownership and production reveal the mediating structures that connect individual lives.
• The other options belong to semiotics, linguistics and Russian Formalism.
• This movement exemplifies Lukács's concept of totality.
• Wages, ownership and production reveal the mediating structures that connect individual lives.
• The other options belong to semiotics, linguistics and Russian Formalism.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
A character treats money and market prices as natural powers while ignoring the labour that created the goods being exchanged. Which concept is most directly illustrated?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Commodity fetishism makes commodities and prices appear to possess independent social power.
• The labour and social relations that produced the goods become obscured.
• The character therefore mistakes a historically produced market relation for a natural property of things.
• Alienation is related but does not name this specific appearance of commodities.
• The labour and social relations that produced the goods become obscured.
• The character therefore mistakes a historically produced market relation for a natural property of things.
• Alienation is related but does not name this specific appearance of commodities.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which statement best explains the relation between literature and material conditions of production?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Literary works are produced through material processes involving publishing, patronage, technology, education and labour.
• These conditions influence form, circulation, readership and cultural value.
• Marxist criticism avoids treating literature as wholly autonomous.
• At the same time, material influence need not operate as simple mechanical determination.
• These conditions influence form, circulation, readership and cultural value.
• Marxist criticism avoids treating literature as wholly autonomous.
• At the same time, material influence need not operate as simple mechanical determination.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Assertion: Lukács often criticized modernist fragmentation.
Reason: He believed that fragmentation could present alienated experience without adequately revealing the social totality that produced it.
Reason: He believed that fragmentation could present alienated experience without adequately revealing the social totality that produced it.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Lukács was critical of major tendencies in modernism.
• The Reason is correct because he believed fragmented forms could isolate subjective alienation from objective social relations.
• He preferred realism that mediated individual experience through historical totality.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because he believed fragmented forms could isolate subjective alienation from objective social relations.
• He preferred realism that mediated individual experience through historical totality.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which sequence gives the correct chronological order of the following works?
1. The Communist Manifesto
2. Capital, Volume I
3. History and Class Consciousness
4. The Historical Novel
1. The Communist Manifesto
2. Capital, Volume I
3. History and Class Consciousness
4. The Historical Novel
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels was published in 1848.
• Capital, Volume I by Marx was first published in 1867.
• History and Class Consciousness by Lukács appeared in 1923.
• The Historical Novel by Lukács was first published in Russian in 1937.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• Capital, Volume I by Marx was first published in 1867.
• History and Class Consciousness by Lukács appeared in 1923.
• The Historical Novel by Lukács was first published in Russian in 1937.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
A critic argues that a novel's celebration of individual success hides the collective labour and class privilege that make such success possible. Which Marxist strategy is being applied?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The critic exposes how an apparently universal story of individual success conceals material class conditions.
• This is an ideological critique because it reveals the social interests and exclusions within a representation.
• Collective labour and inherited privilege challenge the myth of purely individual achievement.
• The other methods belong to narratology, linguistics and archetypal criticism.
• This is an ideological critique because it reveals the social interests and exclusions within a representation.
• Collective labour and inherited privilege challenge the myth of purely individual achievement.
• The other methods belong to narratology, linguistics and archetypal criticism.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which statement best summarizes the difference between crude reflection theory and Lukács's account of realism?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Crude reflection theory assumes a direct and mechanical correspondence between text and reality.
• Lukács's account is more complex because literary form mediates social reality through selection, typicality and totality.
• Realism does not merely photograph isolated facts.
• It reveals essential historical relations through shaped narrative representation.
• Lukács's account is more complex because literary form mediates social reality through selection, typicality and totality.
• Realism does not merely photograph isolated facts.
• It reveals essential historical relations through shaped narrative representation.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which statement best summarizes classical and Western Marxist literary theory?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Marxist literary theory relates literature to material history, production, class conflict and ideology.
• Western Marxists such as Lukács also emphasize mediation, form, realism and social totality.
• A work cannot be reduced mechanically to the author's class origin.
• Literature may reproduce, negotiate or criticize dominant social relations.
• Western Marxists such as Lukács also emphasize mediation, form, realism and social totality.
• A work cannot be reduced mechanically to the author's class origin.
• Literature may reproduce, negotiate or criticize dominant social relations.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Base సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: C. Law, politics and cultural institutions సమాధానం: C.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: D. A group located by its relation to the means of production సమాధానం: D.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: A. Alienation సమాధానం: A.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. Social relations among producers appear as relations among things సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. Ideas and representations that help organize and legitimize social relations సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: D. Surplus value సమాధానం: D.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: A. Georg Lukács సమాధానం: A.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: C. Connects particular social phenomena with the historical structure of society as a whole సమాధానం: C.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Realism సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: D. Embodies significant historical and social contradictions in an individualized form సమాధానం: D.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: A. Literature reflects social reality through historically shaped forms and mediations సమాధానం: A.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: C. Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct సమాధానం: C.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: D. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: D.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: B. 1-III, 2-II, 3-IV, 4-I సమాధానం: B.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: A. Karl Marx — readerly and writerly texts సమాధానం: A.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: D. From fragmentation toward totality సమాధానం: D.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. Commodity fetishism సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. Literary form and circulation are shaped by technologies, institutions, labour and class relations 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, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: A. Identifying ideological concealment సమాధానం: A.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. Crude reflection treats literature as direct copying, while Lukács emphasizes mediated representation of social totality సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. Literature is shaped by material history, class and ideology while also formally mediating social reality సమాధానం: C.