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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which political objective was most closely associated with first-wave feminism?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• First-wave feminism concentrated strongly on legal and political equality.
• Major demands included women's suffrage, property rights, educational access and legal reform.
• The movement was especially prominent during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Later feminist waves expanded the agenda to sexuality, representation, identity and cultural difference.
• Major demands included women's suffrage, property rights, educational access and legal reform.
• The movement was especially prominent during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Later feminist waves expanded the agenda to sexuality, representation, identity and cultural difference.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Which issue became especially prominent during second-wave feminism?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Second-wave feminism examined inequality in both public and private life.
• It analysed patriarchy in marriage, domestic labour, employment, sexuality, education and representation.
• The movement challenged the assumption that personal experiences were unrelated to politics.
• Feminist literary theory developed rapidly within this wider intellectual and political context.
• It analysed patriarchy in marriage, domestic labour, employment, sexuality, education and representation.
• The movement challenged the assumption that personal experiences were unrelated to politics.
• Feminist literary theory developed rapidly within this wider intellectual and political context.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Third-wave feminism is generally distinguished by its emphasis on:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Third-wave feminism questions the idea that all women share one uniform experience.
• It emphasizes plurality, cultural difference, sexuality, race, class and changing forms of identity.
• It also critiques exclusions within earlier feminist movements.
• The movement treats gender as socially and culturally complex rather than biologically predetermined.
• It emphasizes plurality, cultural difference, sexuality, race, class and changing forms of identity.
• It also critiques exclusions within earlier feminist movements.
• The movement treats gender as socially and culturally complex rather than biologically predetermined.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Who wrote The Second Sex?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Simone de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex, first published in French in 1949.
• The work analyses the historical and cultural construction of woman as the Other.
• It argues that femininity is socially produced rather than simply determined by biology.
• Kate Millett wrote Sexual Politics, while Elaine Showalter developed gynocriticism.
• The work analyses the historical and cultural construction of woman as the Other.
• It argues that femininity is socially produced rather than simply determined by biology.
• Kate Millett wrote Sexual Politics, while Elaine Showalter developed gynocriticism.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which statement best expresses Simone de Beauvoir's account of gender?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Beauvoir distinguishes biological sex from the social production of femininity.
• Her argument shows how institutions, customs and representations shape women's identities.
• Woman is positioned as the Other in relation to man as the supposed norm.
• This account became foundational for later distinctions between sex and gender.
• Her argument shows how institutions, customs and representations shape women's identities.
• Woman is positioned as the Other in relation to man as the supposed norm.
• This account became foundational for later distinctions between sex and gender.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
In The Second Sex, woman is frequently constructed in relation to man as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Beauvoir argues that man is culturally positioned as the universal and essential subject.
• Woman is defined as secondary, relative and different from that masculine norm.
• She is therefore constructed as the Other.
• Feminist criticism examines how literary representations reproduce or challenge this hierarchy.
• Woman is defined as secondary, relative and different from that masculine norm.
• She is therefore constructed as the Other.
• Feminist criticism examines how literary representations reproduce or challenge this hierarchy.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which work by Kate Millett became a foundational text of second-wave feminist literary criticism?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Kate Millett's Sexual Politics was published in 1970.
• It analyses the political dimensions of sexual relations and literary representation.
• Millett examines how canonical male writers reproduce structures of patriarchal power.
• A Literature of Their Own was written by Elaine Showalter.
• It analyses the political dimensions of sexual relations and literary representation.
• Millett examines how canonical male writers reproduce structures of patriarchal power.
• A Literature of Their Own was written by Elaine Showalter.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
For Kate Millett, sexual politics refers primarily to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Millett uses sexual politics to describe power relations between the sexes.
• Patriarchy organizes male dominance through social institutions, customs and representations.
• Sexual relations are therefore political rather than merely private.
• Literature can help normalize or expose these unequal arrangements.
• Patriarchy organizes male dominance through social institutions, customs and representations.
• Sexual relations are therefore political rather than merely private.
• Literature can help normalize or expose these unequal arrangements.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which definition best describes patriarchy in feminist theory?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Patriarchy is a social system that privileges male authority and masculine interests.
• It operates through family structures, law, education, religion, language and cultural representation.
• Feminist theory treats patriarchy as historically variable rather than biologically inevitable.
• Literary criticism studies how texts reproduce, negotiate or challenge patriarchal assumptions.
• It operates through family structures, law, education, religion, language and cultural representation.
• Feminist theory treats patriarchy as historically variable rather than biologically inevitable.
• Literary criticism studies how texts reproduce, negotiate or challenge patriarchal assumptions.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which critic introduced gynocriticism as a distinct feminist critical project?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Elaine Showalter introduced gynocriticism as the study of women as writers.
• Gynocriticism investigates female literary traditions, genres, themes, language and conditions of production.
• It shifts attention from representations of women in male-authored texts to women's own writing.
• Showalter is a major figure in Anglo-American feminist literary criticism.
• Gynocriticism investigates female literary traditions, genres, themes, language and conditions of production.
• It shifts attention from representations of women in male-authored texts to women's own writing.
• Showalter is a major figure in Anglo-American feminist literary criticism.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Gynocriticism primarily studies:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Gynocriticism focuses on women as producers of literary texts.
• It seeks to identify traditions, themes, genres and experiences within women's writing.
• It also studies the social and institutional conditions affecting female authorship.
• This differs from feminist critique, which often examines images of women in male-authored literature.
• It seeks to identify traditions, themes, genres and experiences within women's writing.
• It also studies the social and institutional conditions affecting female authorship.
• This differs from feminist critique, which often examines images of women in male-authored literature.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which work by Elaine Showalter traces a tradition of British women novelists?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A Literature of Their Own examines the historical development of British women's fiction.
• Showalter identifies recurring phases in the evolution of this literary tradition.
• The book contributes to the recovery and reassessment of neglected women writers.
• Sexual Politics was written by Kate Millett.
• Showalter identifies recurring phases in the evolution of this literary tradition.
• The book contributes to the recovery and reassessment of neglected women writers.
• Sexual Politics was written by Kate Millett.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Consider the following statements.
Statement I: Feminist critique may analyse stereotypical representations of women in male-authored texts.
Statement II: Gynocriticism concentrates on women as writers and on female literary traditions.
Statement I: Feminist critique may analyse stereotypical representations of women in male-authored texts.
Statement II: Gynocriticism concentrates on women as writers and on female literary traditions.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because feminist critique examines how women are represented within literary and cultural texts.
• It may expose stereotypes, exclusions and patriarchal assumptions.
• Statement II is correct because gynocriticism studies women as authors and investigates female literary traditions.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
• It may expose stereotypes, exclusions and patriarchal assumptions.
• Statement II is correct because gynocriticism studies women as authors and investigates female literary traditions.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Assertion: Feminist literary criticism studies form and language as well as characters and themes.
Reason: Gendered power can operate through narrative voice, genre, imagery and conventions of representation.
Reason: Gendered power can operate through narrative voice, genre, imagery and conventions of representation.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because feminist criticism is not limited to identifying positive or negative female characters.
• The Reason is correct because gender ideology may be embedded in narrative perspective, genre, metaphor and literary convention.
• These formal features can authorize some voices while marginalizing others.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because gender ideology may be embedded in narrative perspective, genre, metaphor and literary convention.
• These formal features can authorize some voices while marginalizing others.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Simone de Beauvoir
2. Kate Millett
3. Elaine Showalter
4. Third-wave feminism
List II
I. Sexual politics
II. Gynocriticism
III. Plurality and diverse gendered experiences
IV. Woman as the Other
List I
1. Simone de Beauvoir
2. Kate Millett
3. Elaine Showalter
4. Third-wave feminism
List II
I. Sexual politics
II. Gynocriticism
III. Plurality and diverse gendered experiences
IV. Woman as the Other
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Simone de Beauvoir matches IV because she analyses woman as the Other.
• Kate Millett matches I because Sexual Politics examines gendered relations of power.
• Elaine Showalter matches II because she developed gynocriticism.
• Third-wave feminism matches III because it emphasizes plurality and diverse experiences.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-IV, 2-I, 3-II, 4-III.
• Kate Millett matches I because Sexual Politics examines gendered relations of power.
• Elaine Showalter matches II because she developed gynocriticism.
• Third-wave feminism matches III because it emphasizes plurality and diverse experiences.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-IV, 2-I, 3-II, 4-III.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The death of the author is associated with Roland Barthes, not Elaine Showalter.
• Showalter is associated with gynocriticism and the study of women's literary traditions.
• First-wave feminism is correctly linked with suffrage and legal reform.
• Second-wave feminism and Kate Millett are correctly linked with patriarchy and sexual politics.
• Showalter is associated with gynocriticism and the study of women's literary traditions.
• First-wave feminism is correctly linked with suffrage and legal reform.
• Second-wave feminism and Kate Millett are correctly linked with patriarchy and sexual politics.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which of the following statements are correct?
1. First-wave feminism emphasized legal and political rights.
2. Second-wave feminism examined sexuality, family and workplace inequality.
3. Third-wave feminism generally supports one universal definition of woman.
4. Feminist criticism analyses the politics of representation.
1. First-wave feminism emphasized legal and political rights.
2. Second-wave feminism examined sexuality, family and workplace inequality.
3. Third-wave feminism generally supports one universal definition of woman.
4. Feminist criticism analyses the politics of representation.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because suffrage and legal equality were central first-wave concerns.
• Statement 2 is correct because second-wave feminism expanded analysis into public and private institutions.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because third-wave feminism questions universal models of womanhood.
• Statement 4 is correct because representation shapes cultural understandings of gender.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because second-wave feminism expanded analysis into public and private institutions.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because third-wave feminism questions universal models of womanhood.
• Statement 4 is correct because representation shapes cultural understandings of gender.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
A novel repeatedly presents ambitious women as unnatural while rewarding female obedience and domestic silence. Which feminist reading practice is most appropriate?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A feminist reading would examine how the novel associates acceptable femininity with obedience and silence.
• The punishment of ambitious women may reinforce patriarchal limits on female agency.
• Narrative rewards and punishments can carry ideological meanings.
• The reading should also consider whether the text ultimately confirms or questions these representations.
• The punishment of ambitious women may reinforce patriarchal limits on female agency.
• Narrative rewards and punishments can carry ideological meanings.
• The reading should also consider whether the text ultimately confirms or questions these representations.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which distinction between sex and gender is most consistent with feminist literary theory?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Feminist theory commonly uses gender to describe socially and culturally produced identities, roles and expectations.
• Gender meanings vary across historical periods and societies.
• This distinction challenges the assumption that every social role follows inevitably from anatomy.
• Literary texts participate in constructing and circulating gendered expectations.
• Gender meanings vary across historical periods and societies.
• This distinction challenges the assumption that every social role follows inevitably from anatomy.
• Literary texts participate in constructing and circulating gendered expectations.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
A critic recovers neglected novels by nineteenth-century women and studies their shared themes, publication difficulties and narrative strategies. This project is best described as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The project reconstructs a tradition of women's writing and studies women as literary producers.
• It examines shared themes, formal strategies and material conditions of publication.
• These aims are central to Showalter's gynocritical project.
• The recovery of neglected female authors also challenges male-dominated literary canons.
• It examines shared themes, formal strategies and material conditions of publication.
• These aims are central to Showalter's gynocritical project.
• The recovery of neglected female authors also challenges male-dominated literary canons.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which statement best explains the feminist concept of representation?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Representation does not merely reflect an already settled social reality.
• Repeated images, plots and descriptions help produce ideas about femininity and masculinity.
• Such representations may legitimize, complicate or resist gender hierarchies.
• Feminist criticism therefore studies who represents whom and with what ideological effects.
• Repeated images, plots and descriptions help produce ideas about femininity and masculinity.
• Such representations may legitimize, complicate or resist gender hierarchies.
• Feminist criticism therefore studies who represents whom and with what ideological effects.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Assertion: Feminist critics frequently question the traditional literary canon.
Reason: Processes of canon formation have often marginalized women writers and treated male experience as universal.
Reason: Processes of canon formation have often marginalized women writers and treated male experience as universal.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because feminist criticism has revised and expanded traditional literary canons.
• The Reason is correct because institutional selection often excluded women's texts or treated them as secondary.
• Male experience was frequently presented as universal, while female experience was marked as special or marginal.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because institutional selection often excluded women's texts or treated them as secondary.
• Male experience was frequently presented as universal, while female experience was marked as special or marginal.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which sequence gives the correct chronological order of the following publications?
1. The Second Sex
2. Sexual Politics
3. A Literature of Their Own
4. Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness
1. The Second Sex
2. Sexual Politics
3. A Literature of Their Own
4. Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Second Sex was first published in French in 1949.
• Sexual Politics was published in 1970.
• A Literature of Their Own appeared in 1977.
• Showalter's essay Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness appeared in 1981.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• Sexual Politics was published in 1970.
• A Literature of Their Own appeared in 1977.
• Showalter's essay Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness appeared in 1981.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which comparison between feminist critique and gynocriticism is most accurate?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Feminist critique often examines stereotypes, images and ideologies concerning women in literary texts.
• Gynocriticism concentrates on women as authors and on female literary traditions.
• The two approaches may overlap and support one another.
• Neither approach excludes history, form or institutional analysis.
• Gynocriticism concentrates on women as authors and on female literary traditions.
• The two approaches may overlap and support one another.
• Neither approach excludes history, form or institutional analysis.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
A feminist critic compares who speaks, who is silenced, whose desires organize the plot and which characters receive narrative authority. What is the critic primarily examining?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The critic is examining how narrative form distributes voice, agency and authority along gendered lines.
• Silence and exclusion can be as ideologically significant as explicit description.
• Plot structure may privilege some desires while suppressing others.
• Feminist reading therefore connects formal narrative choices with gendered power.
• Silence and exclusion can be as ideologically significant as explicit description.
• Plot structure may privilege some desires while suppressing others.
• Feminist reading therefore connects formal narrative choices with gendered power.
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Question 26
ప్రశ్న 26
Which statement best summarizes feminist literary theory?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Feminist literary theory studies how gender and power shape authorship, form, language, character and representation.
• It examines both male-authored and female-authored texts.
• Feminist approaches also investigate canon formation, institutions and the material conditions of women's writing.
• Contemporary feminism recognizes differences among women rather than assuming a single universal experience.
• It examines both male-authored and female-authored texts.
• Feminist approaches also investigate canon formation, institutions and the material conditions of women's writing.
• Contemporary feminism recognizes differences among women rather than assuming a single universal experience.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Women's legal rights and suffrage సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. Patriarchy in family, work, sexuality and culture సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Plural identities, difference and diverse experiences of gender సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Simone de Beauvoir సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. Womanhood is socially and historically constructed సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. The Other సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: A. Sexual Politics సమాధానం: A.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Power relations organized through sex and gender సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. A system in which male authority and masculine privilege are socially organized సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. Elaine Showalter సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: A. Women as writers and the development of female literary traditions సమాధానం: A.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. A Literature of Their Own సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: C. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: C.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. 1-IV, 2-I, 3-II, 4-III సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: C. Elaine Showalter — death of the author సమాధానం: C.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: A. Analysing how representation reinforces patriarchal gender norms సమాధానం: A.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: D. Gender refers to socially produced roles and meanings associated with sexual difference సమాధానం: D.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. Gynocriticism సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. Literary and cultural images help construct social ideas about gender సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: D. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: A. Feminist critique often studies representations of women, whereas gynocriticism studies women as writers సమాధానం: A.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: B. The gendered distribution of voice, agency and representation సమాధానం: B.
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Question 26 ప్రశ్న 26Answer: C. It analyses how literature constructs, reinforces or challenges gendered power and representation సమాధానం: C.