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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which play by Rabindranath Tagore centres on the sick child Amal, who longs to communicate with the world beyond his room?
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Explanation:
• The Post Office centres on Amal, an ill child confined indoors by his guardian.
• Amal imaginatively connects with travellers, villagers and the distant king through the new post office.
• The play explores freedom, spiritual release and the human longing to transcend confinement.
• Chitra and Red Oleanders develop different mythic and political concerns.
• Amal imaginatively connects with travellers, villagers and the distant king through the new post office.
• The play explores freedom, spiritual release and the human longing to transcend confinement.
• Chitra and Red Oleanders develop different mythic and political concerns.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Tagore's Chitra reworks the story of Chitrangada from which Indian epic?
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Explanation:
• Chitra reworks the Mahabharata story of Chitrangada, the warrior princess of Manipur.
• Chitrangada temporarily receives ideal beauty in order to win Arjuna's love.
• The play examines gender, appearance, desire and authentic identity.
• The Ramayana, Rig Veda and Panchatantra do not provide the central source of this drama.
• Chitrangada temporarily receives ideal beauty in order to win Arjuna's love.
• The play examines gender, appearance, desire and authentic identity.
• The Ramayana, Rig Veda and Panchatantra do not provide the central source of this drama.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which character becomes the principal symbol of freedom and humane resistance in Tagore's Red Oleanders?
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Explanation:
• Nandini brings vitality, love and resistance into the oppressive world of Yaksha Town.
• The mining kingdom reduces human beings to numbers and subjects them to mechanical authority.
• Her presence challenges the hidden king and the dehumanising pursuit of wealth.
• Red Oleanders therefore combines symbolism with criticism of industrial and political domination.
• The mining kingdom reduces human beings to numbers and subjects them to mechanical authority.
• Her presence challenges the hidden king and the dehumanising pursuit of wealth.
• Red Oleanders therefore combines symbolism with criticism of industrial and political domination.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which play was written by Sri Aurobindo?
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Explanation:
• Perseus the Deliverer is a poetic drama by Sri Aurobindo.
• It draws on the Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda while exploring tyranny, liberation and heroic action.
• The Doldrummers and The Refugee are associated with Asif Currimbhoy.
• The Purpose was written by T. P. Kailasam.
• It draws on the Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda while exploring tyranny, liberation and heroic action.
• The Doldrummers and The Refugee are associated with Asif Currimbhoy.
• The Purpose was written by T. P. Kailasam.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which description best characterises Sri Aurobindo's dramatic practice?
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Explanation:
• Sri Aurobindo wrote poetic dramas that draw on Indian, Greek and European myth, legend and history.
• His plays often use elevated language and explore spiritual, ethical and heroic conflict.
• His dramatic method differs from strict naturalism, documentary theatre and the Theatre of the Absurd.
• Perseus the Deliverer and Vasavadutta exemplify his interest in large historical and mythic themes.
• His plays often use elevated language and explore spiritual, ethical and heroic conflict.
• His dramatic method differs from strict naturalism, documentary theatre and the Theatre of the Absurd.
• Perseus the Deliverer and Vasavadutta exemplify his interest in large historical and mythic themes.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
T. P. Kailasam's The Purpose reinterprets the story of
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Explanation:
• The Purpose revisits the Mahabharata episode of Ekalavya, Drona and Arjuna.
• Ekalavya's exclusion and sacrifice expose questions of caste, privilege, education and merit.
• Kailasam gives psychological and ethical complexity to a figure marginalised in the epic narrative.
• The other stories are not the central subject of this play.
• Ekalavya's exclusion and sacrifice expose questions of caste, privilege, education and merit.
• Kailasam gives psychological and ethical complexity to a figure marginalised in the epic narrative.
• The other stories are not the central subject of this play.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which Asif Currimbhoy play is most directly associated with the refugee crisis created by the Bangladesh Liberation War?
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Explanation:
• The Refugee responds to the displacement caused by the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.
• It examines hospitality, political responsibility, fear and the pressure placed on Indian households and communities.
• Inquilab engages with revolutionary politics, while Goa addresses Portuguese colonial rule and transition.
• Currimbhoy frequently brought urgent national and political conflicts onto the Indian English stage.
• It examines hospitality, political responsibility, fear and the pressure placed on Indian households and communities.
• Inquilab engages with revolutionary politics, while Goa addresses Portuguese colonial rule and transition.
• Currimbhoy frequently brought urgent national and political conflicts onto the Indian English stage.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Asif Currimbhoy's Inquilab is chiefly associated with
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Explanation:
• Inquilab engages with Naxalite insurgency, radical politics and generational conflict.
• The title means revolution and signals the play's concern with political violence and social injustice.
• Currimbhoy does not present revolution as a simple or uncontested solution.
• The other historical situations are not the play's principal focus.
• The title means revolution and signals the play's concern with political violence and social injustice.
• Currimbhoy does not present revolution as a simple or uncontested solution.
• The other historical situations are not the play's principal focus.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which historical ruler is the central figure of Girish Karnad's Tughlaq?
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Explanation:
• Tughlaq dramatises the reign of the fourteenth-century Delhi Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq.
• Karnad portrays him as intelligent, idealistic, contradictory and increasingly authoritarian.
• The ruler's ambitious schemes produce disorder, distrust and political violence.
• The historical setting also enables reflection on modern nation-building and failed idealism.
• Karnad portrays him as intelligent, idealistic, contradictory and increasingly authoritarian.
• The ruler's ambitious schemes produce disorder, distrust and political violence.
• The historical setting also enables reflection on modern nation-building and failed idealism.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which controversial administrative decision is dramatised in Tughlaq?
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Explanation:
• Muhammad bin Tughlaq orders the transfer of the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad.
• The forced migration causes immense suffering and exposes the gap between ideal policy and practical consequence.
• The decision becomes a central image of political overreach and failed governance.
• The other events belong to different periods of Indian history.
• The forced migration causes immense suffering and exposes the gap between ideal policy and practical consequence.
• The decision becomes a central image of political overreach and failed governance.
• The other events belong to different periods of Indian history.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which economic experiment contributes to disorder in Tughlaq?
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Explanation:
• Tughlaq introduces token copper currency intended to circulate with the value of silver.
• Widespread counterfeiting undermines the scheme and damages the state treasury.
• The episode reveals both the ruler's intellectual ambition and his failure to anticipate social behaviour.
• It strengthens the play's critique of policy detached from practical realities.
• Widespread counterfeiting undermines the scheme and damages the state treasury.
• The episode reveals both the ruler's intellectual ambition and his failure to anticipate social behaviour.
• It strengthens the play's critique of policy detached from practical realities.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Consider the following statements about Tughlaq.
Statement I: The Sultan's early idealism gradually gives way to suspicion and violence.
Statement II: Aziz repeatedly exploits the contradictions within the Sultan's policies.
Choose the correct answer.
Statement I: The Sultan's early idealism gradually gives way to suspicion and violence.
Statement II: Aziz repeatedly exploits the contradictions within the Sultan's policies.
Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Tughlaq begins with visions of justice and rational government but becomes increasingly isolated and brutal.
• Statement II is correct because Aziz manipulates religious identity, legal procedures and state policies for personal gain.
• Aziz's opportunism mirrors the disorder produced by the Sultan's idealistic experiments.
• Therefore, both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
• Statement II is correct because Aziz manipulates religious identity, legal procedures and state policies for personal gain.
• Aziz's opportunism mirrors the disorder produced by the Sultan's idealistic experiments.
• Therefore, both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Hayavadana draws its central story of exchanged heads most directly from
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Explanation:
• Hayavadana adapts the exchanged-heads story known through Thomas Mann's The Transposed Heads.
• Mann's narrative itself draws on older Indian sources, including the Kathasaritsagara tradition.
• Karnad reshapes the story to examine identity, body, mind and the desire for completeness.
• The play is neither a historical chronicle nor a documentary account.
• Mann's narrative itself draws on older Indian sources, including the Kathasaritsagara tradition.
• Karnad reshapes the story to examine identity, body, mind and the desire for completeness.
• The play is neither a historical chronicle nor a documentary account.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which three characters form the central human triangle in Hayavadana?
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Explanation:
• Devadatta, Kapila and Padmini form the central triangle in Hayavadana.
• Devadatta is associated with intellectual refinement, while Kapila embodies physical strength.
• Padmini's attraction to both men intensifies the play's exploration of divided desire.
• The exchange of their heads destabilises any simple distinction between body and identity.
• Devadatta is associated with intellectual refinement, while Kapila embodies physical strength.
• Padmini's attraction to both men intensifies the play's exploration of divided desire.
• The exchange of their heads destabilises any simple distinction between body and identity.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
After the transposition of heads in Hayavadana, the initial judgement identifies a man's identity chiefly with his
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Explanation:
• The initial judgement treats the head as the principal seat of personal identity.
• Padmini therefore returns to the man bearing Devadatta's head, even though he has Kapila's body.
• The bodies gradually acquire characteristics associated with their heads, further complicating the decision.
• Karnad uses the episode to question the possibility of achieving a complete and stable self.
• Padmini therefore returns to the man bearing Devadatta's head, even though he has Kapila's body.
• The bodies gradually acquire characteristics associated with their heads, further complicating the decision.
• Karnad uses the episode to question the possibility of achieving a complete and stable self.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
In Naga-Mandala, the cobra gains access to Rani by
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Explanation:
• The cobra assumes Appanna's form and visits Rani at night.
• Rani experiences affection from the disguised Naga that she does not receive from her actual husband.
• The doubling creates uncertainty about marital identity, desire and truth.
• The play draws on oral tales to examine the position of women within patriarchal marriage.
• Rani experiences affection from the disguised Naga that she does not receive from her actual husband.
• The doubling creates uncertainty about marital identity, desire and truth.
• The play draws on oral tales to examine the position of women within patriarchal marriage.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which character gives Rani a magical root intended to win her husband's affection in Naga-Mandala?
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Explanation:
• Kurudavva, an elderly blind woman, gives Rani a magical root.
• Rani eventually pours the preparation into an anthill, awakening the cobra's desire for her.
• The action begins the supernatural transformation of her lonely domestic life.
• Kurudavva links folk knowledge, oral tradition and female solidarity.
• Rani eventually pours the preparation into an anthill, awakening the cobra's desire for her.
• The action begins the supernatural transformation of her lonely domestic life.
• Kurudavva links folk knowledge, oral tradition and female solidarity.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which theatrical device is central to Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions?
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Explanation:
• Final Solutions uses a chorus wearing masks to represent changing Hindu and Muslim communal mobs.
• The same performers can shift identity, showing how collective hatred is constructed and mirrored.
• The chorus externalises fear, prejudice and crowd psychology.
• This device enables Dattani to combine domestic realism with stylised political theatre.
• The same performers can shift identity, showing how collective hatred is constructed and mirrored.
• The chorus externalises fear, prejudice and crowd psychology.
• This device enables Dattani to combine domestic realism with stylised political theatre.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which two Muslim youths seek shelter in the Gandhi household during communal violence in Final Solutions?
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Explanation:
• Bobby and Javed enter the Gandhi household while fleeing a violent mob.
• Their presence exposes the prejudices, memories and conflicting attitudes within the family.
• Bobby is also known as Babban, while Javed carries a more immediate history of anger and political manipulation.
• The encounter turns the home into a site of debate about communal identity and responsibility.
• Their presence exposes the prejudices, memories and conflicting attitudes within the family.
• Bobby is also known as Babban, while Javed carries a more immediate history of anger and political manipulation.
• The encounter turns the home into a site of debate about communal identity and responsibility.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
What form of exploitation is central to Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest?
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Explanation:
• Harvest presents a near-future system in which poor people sell bodily organs to wealthy foreign recipients.
• The transaction turns the human body into a commodity within global capitalism.
• Technology allows the receiving organisation to monitor and control the donor household.
• The play connects economic inequality with surveillance, gender and loss of bodily autonomy.
• The transaction turns the human body into a commodity within global capitalism.
• Technology allows the receiving organisation to monitor and control the donor household.
• The play connects economic inequality with surveillance, gender and loss of bodily autonomy.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Who is selected as an organ donor by InterPlanta Services in Harvest?
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Explanation:
• Om Prakash signs the contract with InterPlanta Services and is officially selected as the donor.
• His family receives improved material conditions in exchange for strict control over the household and his body.
• The arrangement creates conflict involving Om, Jaya, Ma and Jeetu.
• The contract exposes how poverty can make apparently voluntary consent coercive.
• His family receives improved material conditions in exchange for strict control over the household and his body.
• The arrangement creates conflict involving Om, Jaya, Ma and Jeetu.
• The contract exposes how poverty can make apparently voluntary consent coercive.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Assertion: Harvest presents technological modernity as inseparable from global inequality.
Reason: Advanced communication and medical systems allow wealthy recipients to control and consume the bodies of economically vulnerable donors.
Choose the correct answer.
Reason: Advanced communication and medical systems allow wealthy recipients to control and consume the bodies of economically vulnerable donors.
Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because the play connects technological sophistication with an unequal international economic order.
• The Reason is correct because InterPlanta uses screens, contracts, guards and medical systems to discipline the donor family.
• Technology does not remove exploitation; it makes exploitation more efficient and distant.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because InterPlanta uses screens, contracts, guards and medical systems to discipline the donor family.
• Technology does not remove exploitation; it makes exploitation more efficient and distant.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. T. P. Kailasam
3. Girish Karnad
4. Manjula Padmanabhan
List II
P. Harvest
Q. The Purpose
R. Red Oleanders
S. Naga-Mandala
Choose the correct code.
List I
1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. T. P. Kailasam
3. Girish Karnad
4. Manjula Padmanabhan
List II
P. Harvest
Q. The Purpose
R. Red Oleanders
S. Naga-Mandala
Choose the correct code.
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Explanation:
• Rabindranath Tagore matches R because he wrote Red Oleanders.
• T. P. Kailasam matches Q because he wrote The Purpose.
• Girish Karnad matches S because he wrote Naga-Mandala.
• Manjula Padmanabhan matches P because she wrote Harvest.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-R, 2-Q, 3-S, 4-P.
• T. P. Kailasam matches Q because he wrote The Purpose.
• Girish Karnad matches S because he wrote Naga-Mandala.
• Manjula Padmanabhan matches P because she wrote Harvest.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-R, 2-Q, 3-S, 4-P.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Arrange the following plays in chronological order of publication or first major production.
1. Harvest
2. Tughlaq
3. Final Solutions
4. The Post Office
1. Harvest
2. Tughlaq
3. Final Solutions
4. The Post Office
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Explanation:
• The Post Office was published and first staged in 1912.
• Tughlaq was published in Kannada in 1964 and later translated into English.
• Final Solutions emerged in the early 1990s and received a major production in 1993.
• Harvest was written and published in the late 1990s, receiving the Onassis Prize in 1997.
• The correct sequence is 4, 2, 3, 1.
• Tughlaq was published in Kannada in 1964 and later translated into English.
• Final Solutions emerged in the early 1990s and received a major production in 1993.
• Harvest was written and published in the late 1990s, receiving the Onassis Prize in 1997.
• The correct sequence is 4, 2, 3, 1.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which combination correctly identifies recurring concerns in Indian drama in English?
1. Reworking of myth and epic to question inherited hierarchies
2. Use of history to examine the modern nation and political authority
3. Representation of caste, gender and communal conflict within domestic life
4. Experimentation with folk forms, masks, symbolism and non-linear theatrical devices
1. Reworking of myth and epic to question inherited hierarchies
2. Use of history to examine the modern nation and political authority
3. Representation of caste, gender and communal conflict within domestic life
4. Experimentation with folk forms, masks, symbolism and non-linear theatrical devices
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because playwrights such as Kailasam and Karnad reinterpret epic and mythic narratives.
• Statement 2 is correct because Tughlaq and Currimbhoy's political plays use history and public crisis to examine the nation.
• Statement 3 is correct because caste, patriarchy and communalism enter family and household relationships.
• Statement 4 is correct because Indian dramatists combine modern theatre with oral tales, masks, choruses, symbolism and experimental structures.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because Tughlaq and Currimbhoy's political plays use history and public crisis to examine the nation.
• Statement 3 is correct because caste, patriarchy and communalism enter family and household relationships.
• Statement 4 is correct because Indian dramatists combine modern theatre with oral tales, masks, choruses, symbolism and experimental structures.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. The Post Office సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. The Mahabharata సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Nandini సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Perseus the Deliverer సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Poetic drama drawing on myth, legend and history సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Ekalavya and his exclusion from formal martial training సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. The Refugee సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. the Naxalite movement and revolutionary unrest సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Muhammad bin Tughlaq సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. The transfer of the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Introducing token copper currency with the value of silver coins సమాధానం: C.
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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: D. a tale used by Thomas Mann and ultimately derived from Indian narrative tradition సమాధానం: D.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Devadatta, Kapila and Padmini సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. head సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. assuming the appearance of Appanna సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. Kurudavva సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. A masked chorus that shifts between Hindu and Muslim communal identities సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. Bobby and Javed సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. International trade in human organs సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: B. Om Prakash సమాధానం: B.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. 1-R, 2-Q, 3-S, 4-P సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. 4, 2, 3, 1 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. 1, 2, 3 and 4 సమాధానం: A.