Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which work by Edward Said established Orientalism as a major field of postcolonial inquiry?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Edward Said published Orientalism in 1978.
• The book examines how Western scholarship, literature and institutions represented the East as an object of knowledge and domination.
• Culture and Imperialism is a later work by Said.
• The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks were written by Frantz Fanon.
• The book examines how Western scholarship, literature and institutions represented the East as an object of knowledge and domination.
• Culture and Imperialism is a later work by Said.
• The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks were written by Frantz Fanon.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
In Said's argument, Orientalism is best understood as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Said defines Orientalism as a discourse through which the West represents, classifies and governs the East.
• It operates through scholarship, literature, administration and cultural institutions.
• Orientalism is not merely a collection of inaccurate images.
• Its representations are connected with imperial power.
• It operates through scholarship, literature, administration and cultural institutions.
• Orientalism is not merely a collection of inaccurate images.
• Its representations are connected with imperial power.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which theoretical influence is especially important to Said's analysis of discourse and knowledge?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Said draws significantly on Michel Foucault's account of discourse, knowledge and institutional power.
• Orientalist statements gain authority through organized fields of scholarship and administration.
• Said also modifies Foucault by placing greater emphasis on imperial history and individual intellectual responsibility.
• The other critics belong to different traditions.
• Orientalist statements gain authority through organized fields of scholarship and administration.
• Said also modifies Foucault by placing greater emphasis on imperial history and individual intellectual responsibility.
• The other critics belong to different traditions.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
What is a central effect of Orientalist representation according to Said?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Orientalist discourse often constructs the East through stereotypes of irrationality, sensuality, backwardness and passivity.
• The West is correspondingly represented as rational, modern and active.
• This binary helps legitimize imperial authority.
• Said's analysis shows that representation is never politically innocent.
• The West is correspondingly represented as rational, modern and active.
• This binary helps legitimize imperial authority.
• Said's analysis shows that representation is never politically innocent.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which statement best describes Said's use of the term representation?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Said argues that representation actively constructs its objects through language, conventions and authority.
• Repeated descriptions can make stereotypes appear factual and natural.
• Representation operates in scholarship, literature, travel writing and official policy.
• It is therefore connected with power rather than being a transparent mirror.
• Repeated descriptions can make stereotypes appear factual and natural.
• Representation operates in scholarship, literature, travel writing and official policy.
• It is therefore connected with power rather than being a transparent mirror.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Who wrote Black Skin, White Masks?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Frantz Fanon published Black Skin, White Masks in 1952.
• The work examines the psychological effects of racism and colonialism.
• It analyses language, desire, recognition and the internalization of racial hierarchy.
• Said, Césaire and Bhabha are major postcolonial thinkers but did not write this book.
• The work examines the psychological effects of racism and colonialism.
• It analyses language, desire, recognition and the internalization of racial hierarchy.
• Said, Césaire and Bhabha are major postcolonial thinkers but did not write this book.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which work by Fanon offers a revolutionary analysis of colonial violence and decolonization?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Wretched of the Earth examines colonial domination, revolutionary struggle and the difficulties of national liberation.
• Fanon analyses violence as structurally embedded in colonial rule.
• He also warns against the failures of the postcolonial national bourgeoisie.
• Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism are works by Edward Said.
• Fanon analyses violence as structurally embedded in colonial rule.
• He also warns against the failures of the postcolonial national bourgeoisie.
• Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism are works by Edward Said.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
In Black Skin, White Masks, the image of the white mask primarily symbolizes:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The white mask symbolizes the colonized subject's pressured identification with white language, culture and standards.
• This adoption promises recognition but intensifies alienation from the self.
• Fanon shows that colonial racism enters psychic and interpersonal life.
• The process does not abolish hierarchy or restore an untouched identity.
• This adoption promises recognition but intensifies alienation from the self.
• Fanon shows that colonial racism enters psychic and interpersonal life.
• The process does not abolish hierarchy or restore an untouched identity.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which statement best summarizes Fanon's concept of colonial psychology?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Fanon argues that colonialism produces psychological as well as political and economic effects.
• Racial hierarchy can generate inferiority, self-division and dependence on the colonizer's recognition.
• Language and bodily appearance become charged with colonial meanings.
• Formal independence alone does not automatically remove these effects.
• Racial hierarchy can generate inferiority, self-division and dependence on the colonizer's recognition.
• Language and bodily appearance become charged with colonial meanings.
• Formal independence alone does not automatically remove these effects.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
According to Fanon, colonial society is fundamentally organized through:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Fanon describes the colonial world as divided into opposed and unequal zones.
• Police, military force and racial classification maintain this compartmentalization.
• Colonial order is therefore violent in its basic structure.
• Decolonization seeks to overturn this imposed division.
• Police, military force and racial classification maintain this compartmentalization.
• Colonial order is therefore violent in its basic structure.
• Decolonization seeks to overturn this imposed division.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Why does Fanon assign a central role to violence in decolonization?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Fanon begins from the claim that colonial order is established and maintained through violence.
• Revolutionary violence may reverse the colonized subject's imposed passivity and fear.
• His argument is historical and political rather than a claim that every act of violence is automatically justified.
• The concept remains one of the most debated aspects of Fanon's work.
• Revolutionary violence may reverse the colonized subject's imposed passivity and fear.
• His argument is historical and political rather than a claim that every act of violence is automatically justified.
• The concept remains one of the most debated aspects of Fanon's work.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Consider the following statements.
Statement I: Said treats Orientalism as a discourse connected with imperial institutions.
Statement II: Fanon analyses colonialism as a force that shapes both social structures and psychic life.
Statement I: Said treats Orientalism as a discourse connected with imperial institutions.
Statement II: Fanon analyses colonialism as a force that shapes both social structures and psychic life.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Said links Orientalist knowledge with institutions of scholarship, administration and empire.
• Statement II is correct because Fanon studies political domination together with alienation, inferiority and racialized desire.
• Both theorists reject the separation of culture from colonial power.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
• Statement II is correct because Fanon studies political domination together with alienation, inferiority and racialized desire.
• Both theorists reject the separation of culture from colonial power.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Assertion: Said argues that literary texts can participate in imperial discourse.
Reason: Literature may reproduce assumptions about colonized peoples even when it is not an official colonial document.
Reason: Literature may reproduce assumptions about colonized peoples even when it is not an official colonial document.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because literary texts can circulate imperial images, categories and assumptions.
• The Reason is correct because cultural texts need not be official policy documents to participate in discourse.
• Narrative perspective, characterization and setting may normalize colonial hierarchies.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because cultural texts need not be official policy documents to participate in discourse.
• Narrative perspective, characterization and setting may normalize colonial hierarchies.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Orientalism
2. Black Skin, White Masks
3. The Wretched of the Earth
4. Culture and Imperialism
List II
I. Colonial psychology and racial alienation
II. Representation of the East within Western discourse
III. Empire within canonical cultural forms
IV. Violence, decolonization and national liberation
List I
1. Orientalism
2. Black Skin, White Masks
3. The Wretched of the Earth
4. Culture and Imperialism
List II
I. Colonial psychology and racial alienation
II. Representation of the East within Western discourse
III. Empire within canonical cultural forms
IV. Violence, decolonization and national liberation
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Orientalism matches II because it analyses Western discourse about the East.
• Black Skin, White Masks matches I because it studies racial alienation and colonial psychology.
• The Wretched of the Earth matches IV because it examines violence, decolonization and national liberation.
• Culture and Imperialism matches III because it studies imperial formations within canonical culture.
• Therefore, option D gives the correct code: 1-II, 2-I, 3-IV, 4-III.
• Black Skin, White Masks matches I because it studies racial alienation and colonial psychology.
• The Wretched of the Earth matches IV because it examines violence, decolonization and national liberation.
• Culture and Imperialism matches III because it studies imperial formations within canonical culture.
• Therefore, option D gives the correct code: 1-II, 2-I, 3-IV, 4-III.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Wretched of the Earth was written by Frantz Fanon, not Edward Said.
• Said is correctly associated with Orientalism.
• Fanon is correctly associated with both Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth.
• Therefore, option C is incorrectly matched.
• Said is correctly associated with Orientalism.
• Fanon is correctly associated with both Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth.
• Therefore, option C is incorrectly matched.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Orientalism may turn historically specific representations into apparently natural truths.
2. Fanon treats language as irrelevant to colonial identity.
3. Decolonization involves the transformation of political and social relations.
4. Said examines the cultural authority of Western representations.
1. Orientalism may turn historically specific representations into apparently natural truths.
2. Fanon treats language as irrelevant to colonial identity.
3. Decolonization involves the transformation of political and social relations.
4. Said examines the cultural authority of Western representations.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Orientalist stereotypes can appear natural through repetition and institutional authority.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because Fanon closely analyses language and its relation to racial identity and recognition.
• Statement 3 is correct because decolonization overturns colonial structures rather than merely changing names.
• Statement 4 is correct because Said studies how representations acquire cultural authority.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because Fanon closely analyses language and its relation to racial identity and recognition.
• Statement 3 is correct because decolonization overturns colonial structures rather than merely changing names.
• Statement 4 is correct because Said studies how representations acquire cultural authority.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
What is Said's principal criticism of claims that Orientalist scholarship is politically neutral?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Said argues that Orientalist scholarship developed within institutions connected to European imperial expansion.
• Its classifications and representations could support governance and domination.
• This does not mean that every scholar consciously intended to deceive.
• The critique concerns the discursive system and its relation to power.
• Its classifications and representations could support governance and domination.
• This does not mean that every scholar consciously intended to deceive.
• The critique concerns the discursive system and its relation to power.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
A novel repeatedly depicts an Eastern society as timeless, sensual and incapable of self-government. Which Said-inspired reading is most appropriate?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The descriptions reproduce familiar Orientalist stereotypes of timelessness, sensuality and political incapacity.
• Such images construct the East as requiring Western knowledge and rule.
• A Said-inspired reading would connect narrative representation with imperial discourse.
• It would not assume that the novel transparently represents the culture.
• Such images construct the East as requiring Western knowledge and rule.
• A Said-inspired reading would connect narrative representation with imperial discourse.
• It would not assume that the novel transparently represents the culture.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
In Fanon's account, the use of the colonizer's language can become psychologically significant because it:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Fanon argues that speaking the colonizer's language may involve adopting its cultural values and standards of recognition.
• The colonized subject may seek acceptance through linguistic assimilation.
• This desire can intensify alienation because racial hierarchy remains in place.
• Language alone cannot guarantee liberation.
• The colonized subject may seek acceptance through linguistic assimilation.
• This desire can intensify alienation because racial hierarchy remains in place.
• Language alone cannot guarantee liberation.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which statement best reflects Fanon's criticism of the postcolonial national bourgeoisie?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Fanon warns that the national bourgeoisie may replace colonial rulers without restructuring dependent economic relations.
• It may become an intermediary class focused on privilege rather than broad social transformation.
• National independence can therefore remain incomplete.
• Fanon calls for a more participatory and socially transformative national consciousness.
• It may become an intermediary class focused on privilege rather than broad social transformation.
• National independence can therefore remain incomplete.
• Fanon calls for a more participatory and socially transformative national consciousness.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Assertion: Fanon distinguishes national consciousness from narrow nationalism.
Reason: He warns that independence can reproduce exclusion and class privilege unless national liberation becomes socially transformative.
Reason: He warns that independence can reproduce exclusion and class privilege unless national liberation becomes socially transformative.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Fanon does not treat every form of nationalism as liberating.
• The Reason is correct because postcolonial elites may reproduce exclusion and dependency after independence.
• A genuine national consciousness must involve the people and transform social relations.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because postcolonial elites may reproduce exclusion and dependency after independence.
• A genuine national consciousness must involve the people and transform social relations.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which sequence gives the correct chronological order of the first publication of the following works?
1. Black Skin, White Masks
2. The Wretched of the Earth
3. Orientalism
4. Culture and Imperialism
1. Black Skin, White Masks
2. The Wretched of the Earth
3. Orientalism
4. Culture and Imperialism
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Black Skin, White Masks was first published in French in 1952.
• The Wretched of the Earth was first published in French in 1961.
• Orientalism appeared in 1978.
• Culture and Imperialism appeared in 1993.
• Therefore, the correct chronological sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• The Wretched of the Earth was first published in French in 1961.
• Orientalism appeared in 1978.
• Culture and Imperialism appeared in 1993.
• Therefore, the correct chronological sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which comparison between Said and Fanon is most accurate?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Said focuses strongly on representation, discourse and the cultural authority of imperial knowledge.
• Fanon analyses racialized psychology, colonial violence and revolutionary decolonization.
• Both thinkers connect culture with political power, but their emphases differ.
• Neither reduces colonial domination to military force alone.
• Fanon analyses racialized psychology, colonial violence and revolutionary decolonization.
• Both thinkers connect culture with political power, but their emphases differ.
• Neither reduces colonial domination to military force alone.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
A critic examines how a colonial narrative silences indigenous voices while presenting the colonizer as the only reliable knower. Which combined theoretical concern is most relevant?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Said's work helps explain how representation authorizes the colonizer as the producer of knowledge.
• Fanon's work helps explain how colonial discourse positions colonized people as inferior or dependent subjects.
• Silencing indigenous voices is therefore both a representational and psychological operation of power.
• The analysis connects narrative form with colonial authority.
• Fanon's work helps explain how colonial discourse positions colonized people as inferior or dependent subjects.
• Silencing indigenous voices is therefore both a representational and psychological operation of power.
• The analysis connects narrative form with colonial authority.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which statement best summarizes the shared significance of Said and Fanon for postcolonial theory?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Said shows how imperial power operates through discourse, representation and cultural institutions.
• Fanon analyses the material violence and psychological damage produced by colonial rule.
• Both demonstrate that colonialism extends beyond formal administration.
• Decolonization therefore requires cultural, psychic, political and material transformation.
• Fanon analyses the material violence and psychological damage produced by colonial rule.
• Both demonstrate that colonialism extends beyond formal administration.
• Decolonization therefore requires cultural, psychic, political and material transformation.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Orientalism సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. A discourse that produces the East as an object of Western knowledge and power సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Michel Foucault's theory of discourse సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. It constructs the East as exotic, irrational, backward or passive in contrast to the West సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. Representation actively shapes how peoples and places are understood సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. Frantz Fanon సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: D. The Wretched of the Earth సమాధానం: D.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: A. The colonized subject's attempt to gain recognition by adopting the colonizer's language and values సమాధానం: A.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. Colonial domination produces inferiority, alienation and distorted forms of recognition సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. A compartmentalized and violent division between colonizer and colonized సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: D. Because colonial rule is itself founded on force, and revolutionary violence may break the colonized subject's imposed passivity సమాధానం: D.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: D. 1-II, 2-I, 3-IV, 4-III సమాధానం: D.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. Edward Said — The Wretched of the Earth సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: C. 1, 3 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. Knowledge about the East developed within institutional and imperial relations of power సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: A. Examining how Orientalist stereotypes legitimize imperial authority సమాధానం: A.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: B. May promise social recognition while reinforcing alienation and hierarchy సమాధానం: B.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: C. It may inherit state power while failing to transform colonial economic and social relations సమాధానం: C.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: D. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. Said analyses imperial representation and discourse, while Fanon gives greater attention to colonial psychology and revolutionary decolonization సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: A. The politics of representation and the production of colonial subjectivity సమాధానం: A.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: B. Colonial power works through representation, institutions, racial psychology and material violence, while resistance requires decolonizing these structures సమాధానం: B.