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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which Nigerian playwright wrote Death and the King's Horseman?
Explanation:
• Wole Soyinka wrote Death and the King's Horseman.
• The play is based partly on an incident that occurred in colonial-era Oyo.
• It examines ritual obligation, colonial intervention, communal responsibility and individual failure.
• Soyinka became the first African recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.
• The play is based partly on an incident that occurred in colonial-era Oyo.
• It examines ritual obligation, colonial intervention, communal responsibility and individual failure.
• Soyinka became the first African recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Who is required to follow the dead king into the ancestral world in Death and the King's Horseman?
Explanation:
• Elesin Oba is the king's horseman and must complete a ritual transition after the king's death.
• His death is believed to preserve continuity among the living, the dead and the unborn.
• Olunde is Elesin's son, while Pilkings is the British district officer.
• The ritual responsibility gives Elesin both honour and a grave communal duty.
• His death is believed to preserve continuity among the living, the dead and the unborn.
• Olunde is Elesin's son, while Pilkings is the British district officer.
• The ritual responsibility gives Elesin both honour and a grave communal duty.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
What is Elesin's principal ritual duty in Death and the King's Horseman?
Explanation:
• Elesin must undergo ritual death so that he may accompany the departed king into the ancestral realm.
• The ceremony is understood as necessary for the spiritual and social continuity of the community.
• Colonial intervention prevents the ritual from being completed at the proper time.
• The play presents the duty as more than an individual act because it concerns the entire cosmic order.
• The ceremony is understood as necessary for the spiritual and social continuity of the community.
• Colonial intervention prevents the ritual from being completed at the proper time.
• The play presents the duty as more than an individual act because it concerns the entire cosmic order.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
What official position does Simon Pilkings hold in Death and the King's Horseman?
Explanation:
• Simon Pilkings is the British district officer responsible for colonial administration in the area.
• He prevents Elesin's ritual death because he interprets it only through British legal and moral assumptions.
• His actions demonstrate the cultural ignorance and coercive power of colonial rule.
• The Praise-Singer and Iyaloja belong to the Yoruba communal world rather than the colonial administration.
• He prevents Elesin's ritual death because he interprets it only through British legal and moral assumptions.
• His actions demonstrate the cultural ignorance and coercive power of colonial rule.
• The Praise-Singer and Iyaloja belong to the Yoruba communal world rather than the colonial administration.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
What does Olunde do after discovering that Elesin has failed to complete his ritual duty?
Explanation:
• Olunde takes his own life after learning that his father has failed to complete the ritual transition.
• His action preserves the honour and responsibility that Elesin has compromised.
• Olunde's sacrifice reverses the expected relation between father and son.
• The event deepens the tragedy by showing the irreversible consequences of both colonial intervention and Elesin's hesitation.
• His action preserves the honour and responsibility that Elesin has compromised.
• Olunde's sacrifice reverses the expected relation between father and son.
• The event deepens the tragedy by showing the irreversible consequences of both colonial intervention and Elesin's hesitation.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which interpretation of Death and the King's Horseman most closely reflects Soyinka's stated emphasis?
Explanation:
• Soyinka cautioned against reducing the play to a simple clash between European and African cultures.
• The central issue is the disruption of a Yoruba metaphysical transition involving the living, the dead and the unborn.
• Colonial interference is crucial, but Elesin's personal weakness also contributes to the catastrophe.
• The tragedy therefore combines cultural, spiritual, political and individual dimensions.
• The central issue is the disruption of a Yoruba metaphysical transition involving the living, the dead and the unborn.
• Colonial interference is crucial, but Elesin's personal weakness also contributes to the catastrophe.
• The tragedy therefore combines cultural, spiritual, political and individual dimensions.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead was created collaboratively by Athol Fugard with which two performers?
Explanation:
• Sizwe Bansi Is Dead was collaboratively developed by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona.
• Kani and Ntshona also performed the central roles in the original production.
• The collaborative process drew on improvisation and lived experience under apartheid.
• The play combines political critique with flexible storytelling and direct theatrical performance.
• Kani and Ntshona also performed the central roles in the original production.
• The collaborative process drew on improvisation and lived experience under apartheid.
• The play combines political critique with flexible storytelling and direct theatrical performance.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
How does Buntu propose that Sizwe solve his passbook problem in Sizwe Bansi Is Dead?
Explanation:
• Buntu discovers the body and identity papers of a dead man named Robert Zwelinzima.
• He proposes that Sizwe exchange photographs and live under Robert's legally acceptable identity.
• The solution allows Sizwe to remain and work, but it requires the official death of his former identity.
• The episode exposes how apartheid bureaucracy reduces personhood to documentation.
• He proposes that Sizwe exchange photographs and live under Robert's legally acceptable identity.
• The solution allows Sizwe to remain and work, but it requires the official death of his former identity.
• The episode exposes how apartheid bureaucracy reduces personhood to documentation.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
What is Styles's occupation in Sizwe Bansi Is Dead?
Explanation:
• Styles owns and operates a photographic studio.
• His studio allows ordinary people to create images of dignity, aspiration and self-definition.
• He previously worked in a factory where black labour was controlled by white management.
• Photography therefore becomes an alternative to the dehumanising classifications of apartheid.
• His studio allows ordinary people to create images of dignity, aspiration and self-definition.
• He previously worked in a factory where black labour was controlled by white management.
• Photography therefore becomes an alternative to the dehumanising classifications of apartheid.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
What was the chief function of the pass laws criticised in Sizwe Bansi Is Dead?
Explanation:
• Apartheid pass laws controlled where black South Africans could live, travel and work.
• Failure to possess approved documentation could lead to arrest, deportation or unemployment.
• Sizwe's struggle arises because his official identity does not permit him to remain where work is available.
• The play reveals bureaucracy as a direct instrument of racial domination.
• Failure to possess approved documentation could lead to arrest, deportation or unemployment.
• Sizwe's struggle arises because his official identity does not permit him to remain where work is available.
• The play reveals bureaucracy as a direct instrument of racial domination.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
The title Sizwe Bansi Is Dead most directly suggests that
Explanation:
• Sizwe continues to live physically but must surrender his legal name and assume Robert Zwelinzima's identity.
• Under apartheid, official documentation possesses greater authority than lived human identity.
• The title expresses the psychological and social cost of survival under racial bureaucracy.
• The apparent death is therefore legal and symbolic rather than a literal murder.
• Under apartheid, official documentation possesses greater authority than lived human identity.
• The title expresses the psychological and social cost of survival under racial bureaucracy.
• The apparent death is therefore legal and symbolic rather than a literal murder.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Who wrote Dream on Monkey Mountain?
Explanation:
• Derek Walcott wrote Dream on Monkey Mountain.
• Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet and dramatist whose work explores Caribbean history, language and identity.
• The play combines dream, ritual, poetry, masquerade and political symbolism.
• Walcott received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
• Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet and dramatist whose work explores Caribbean history, language and identity.
• The play combines dream, ritual, poetry, masquerade and political symbolism.
• Walcott received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Who is the central protagonist of Dream on Monkey Mountain?
Explanation:
• Makak is the central figure of Dream on Monkey Mountain.
• He is an aged charcoal burner who has internalised shame about his blackness and appearance.
• A dream vision of a white goddess encourages him to imagine a different identity and destiny.
• His journey becomes a symbolic confrontation with colonial psychology and racial alienation.
• He is an aged charcoal burner who has internalised shame about his blackness and appearance.
• A dream vision of a white goddess encourages him to imagine a different identity and destiny.
• His journey becomes a symbolic confrontation with colonial psychology and racial alienation.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
What does the white goddess in Dream on Monkey Mountain principally symbolise?
Explanation:
• The white goddess embodies an ideal of beauty and value created by colonial racial hierarchy.
• Makak initially worships this image because he has internalised contempt for his own black identity.
• The dream makes psychological colonisation visible through theatrical symbolism.
• Rejecting the goddess becomes necessary for Makak's movement toward self-recognition.
• Makak initially worships this image because he has internalised contempt for his own black identity.
• The dream makes psychological colonisation visible through theatrical symbolism.
• Rejecting the goddess becomes necessary for Makak's movement toward self-recognition.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which dramatic function is most closely associated with Corporal Lestrade in Dream on Monkey Mountain?
Explanation:
• Corporal Lestrade initially enforces colonial law and expresses contempt for black identity.
• His divided racial position reveals how colonial ideology may be internalised by the colonised.
• During the dream journey, his attitudes and allegiances undergo significant change.
• He therefore embodies both colonial discipline and the possibility of psychological transformation.
• His divided racial position reveals how colonial ideology may be internalised by the colonised.
• During the dream journey, his attitudes and allegiances undergo significant change.
• He therefore embodies both colonial discipline and the possibility of psychological transformation.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which action marks Makak's symbolic rejection of colonial ideals near the climax of Dream on Monkey Mountain?
Explanation:
• Makak symbolically beheads the white goddess within the dream action.
• The act represents his rejection of an imposed racial ideal that has alienated him from himself.
• It does not produce a simple political programme but marks an inward decolonisation.
• The play's ritual and dream structure permits this psychological conflict to appear as theatrical action.
• The act represents his rejection of an imposed racial ideal that has alienated him from himself.
• It does not produce a simple political programme but marks an inward decolonisation.
• The play's ritual and dream structure permits this psychological conflict to appear as theatrical action.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which Ghanaian dramatist wrote both The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa?
Explanation:
• Ama Ata Aidoo wrote The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa.
• Her drama examines gender, marriage, diaspora, cultural conflict, memory and colonial history.
• She was a major Ghanaian playwright, novelist, poet and critic.
• Efua Sutherland was also an important Ghanaian dramatist but did not write these two plays.
• Her drama examines gender, marriage, diaspora, cultural conflict, memory and colonial history.
• She was a major Ghanaian playwright, novelist, poet and critic.
• Efua Sutherland was also an important Ghanaian dramatist but did not write these two plays.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which marriage creates the central cultural conflict in The Dilemma of a Ghost?
Explanation:
• Ato returns to Ghana after studying abroad with his African American wife, Eulalie.
• Their marriage brings together people connected by African ancestry but separated by different histories and expectations.
• Conflicts emerge concerning family obligations, childlessness, gender and cultural belonging.
• The play resists the assumption that a shared racial origin automatically removes cultural difference.
• Their marriage brings together people connected by African ancestry but separated by different histories and expectations.
• Conflicts emerge concerning family obligations, childlessness, gender and cultural belonging.
• The play resists the assumption that a shared racial origin automatically removes cultural difference.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which conflict is central to Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa?
Explanation:
• Anowa resists the marriage expectations imposed by her family and chooses Kofi Ako.
• Their relationship deteriorates as wealth, infertility, gender expectations and the use of enslaved labour reshape their lives.
• The play connects personal tragedy with the historical economy of slavery.
• Aidoo presents Anowa as both resistant and tragically isolated.
• Their relationship deteriorates as wealth, infertility, gender expectations and the use of enslaved labour reshape their lives.
• The play connects personal tragedy with the historical economy of slavery.
• Aidoo presents Anowa as both resistant and tragically isolated.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which statement best explains the importance of language in postcolonial drama?
Explanation:
• Postcolonial dramatists frequently reshape European languages through indigenous rhythm, proverb, oral storytelling and multilingual expression.
• Language may carry the history of colonial education while also becoming a means of resistance.
• Soyinka, Walcott, Fugard and Aidoo use speech in distinct ways shaped by their cultural contexts.
• Postcolonial language is therefore contested and creative rather than uniform.
• Language may carry the history of colonial education while also becoming a means of resistance.
• Soyinka, Walcott, Fugard and Aidoo use speech in distinct ways shaped by their cultural contexts.
• Postcolonial language is therefore contested and creative rather than uniform.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Consider the following statements about ritual in Death and the King's Horseman.
Statement I: The ritual connects individual action with the continuity of the entire community.
Statement II: Pilkings fully understands the ritual's metaphysical meaning before intervening.
Choose the correct answer.
Statement I: The ritual connects individual action with the continuity of the entire community.
Statement II: Pilkings fully understands the ritual's metaphysical meaning before intervening.
Choose the correct answer.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Elesin's duty concerns the relation among the living, the ancestors and future generations.
• Statement II is incorrect because Pilkings interprets the event through colonial assumptions and fails to understand its metaphysical significance.
• His intervention is backed by administrative force rather than cultural knowledge.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because Pilkings interprets the event through colonial assumptions and fails to understand its metaphysical significance.
• His intervention is backed by administrative force rather than cultural knowledge.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which of the following statements about Sizwe Bansi Is Dead are correct?
1. Styles's studio allows clients to fashion images of dignity and aspiration.
2. Sizwe's survival requires him to adopt another man's identity.
3. The play criticises the apartheid pass system.
4. Buntu is a government officer who arrests Sizwe.
1. Styles's studio allows clients to fashion images of dignity and aspiration.
2. Sizwe's survival requires him to adopt another man's identity.
3. The play criticises the apartheid pass system.
4. Buntu is a government officer who arrests Sizwe.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Styles's photographs allow clients to preserve chosen images of themselves.
• Statement 2 is correct because Sizwe adopts Robert Zwelinzima's identity to obtain legal permission to remain and work.
• Statement 3 is correct because apartheid documentation and labour control form the play's central political target.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because Buntu helps Sizwe rather than arresting him.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because Sizwe adopts Robert Zwelinzima's identity to obtain legal permission to remain and work.
• Statement 3 is correct because apartheid documentation and labour control form the play's central political target.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because Buntu helps Sizwe rather than arresting him.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Assertion: Dream on Monkey Mountain uses a non-realistic dramatic structure to explore colonial psychology.
Reason: Dreams, masks, ritual movement and symbolic figures make Makak's internalised racial conflict visible onstage.
Choose the correct answer.
Reason: Dreams, masks, ritual movement and symbolic figures make Makak's internalised racial conflict visible onstage.
Choose the correct answer.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because the play does not confine itself to linear naturalistic action.
• The Reason is correct because ritual, dream and symbolic transformation externalise Makak's divided consciousness.
• These devices connect private alienation with the wider history of colonialism and racial hierarchy.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because ritual, dream and symbolic transformation externalise Makak's divided consciousness.
• These devices connect private alienation with the wider history of colonialism and racial hierarchy.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Wole Soyinka
2. Athol Fugard
3. Derek Walcott
4. Ama Ata Aidoo
List II
P. Anowa
Q. Dream on Monkey Mountain
R. Death and the King's Horseman
S. Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
Choose the correct code.
List I
1. Wole Soyinka
2. Athol Fugard
3. Derek Walcott
4. Ama Ata Aidoo
List II
P. Anowa
Q. Dream on Monkey Mountain
R. Death and the King's Horseman
S. Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
Choose the correct code.
Explanation:
• Wole Soyinka matches R because he wrote Death and the King's Horseman.
• Athol Fugard matches S because he collaborated on Sizwe Bansi Is Dead.
• Derek Walcott matches Q because he wrote Dream on Monkey Mountain.
• Ama Ata Aidoo matches P because she wrote Anowa.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-R, 2-S, 3-Q, 4-P.
• Athol Fugard matches S because he collaborated on Sizwe Bansi Is Dead.
• Derek Walcott matches Q because he wrote Dream on Monkey Mountain.
• Ama Ata Aidoo matches P because she wrote Anowa.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-R, 2-S, 3-Q, 4-P.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Arrange the following plays in chronological order of publication or first major production.
1. Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
2. Death and the King's Horseman
3. The Dilemma of a Ghost
4. Dream on Monkey Mountain
1. Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
2. Death and the King's Horseman
3. The Dilemma of a Ghost
4. Dream on Monkey Mountain
Explanation:
• The Dilemma of a Ghost appeared in 1965.
• Dream on Monkey Mountain was first performed in 1967.
• Sizwe Bansi Is Dead was first performed in 1972.
• Death and the King's Horseman was published and first performed in 1975.
• The correct sequence is 3, 4, 1, 2.
• Dream on Monkey Mountain was first performed in 1967.
• Sizwe Bansi Is Dead was first performed in 1972.
• Death and the King's Horseman was published and first performed in 1975.
• The correct sequence is 3, 4, 1, 2.
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Question 26
ప్రశ్న 26
Which combination correctly identifies recurring concerns in African, Caribbean and postcolonial drama?
1. Colonial disruption of indigenous cultural and ritual systems
2. Racial classification and bureaucratic control under apartheid
3. Psychological effects of imposed standards of language, beauty and identity
4. Resistance through storytelling, ritual, performance and communal memory
1. Colonial disruption of indigenous cultural and ritual systems
2. Racial classification and bureaucratic control under apartheid
3. Psychological effects of imposed standards of language, beauty and identity
4. Resistance through storytelling, ritual, performance and communal memory
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Soyinka dramatises the disruption of Yoruba ritual by colonial authority.
• Statement 2 is correct because Fugard, Kani and Ntshona expose apartheid control through passbooks and labour restrictions.
• Statement 3 is correct because Walcott examines internalised racial and colonial values.
• Statement 4 is correct because these dramatists use oral narrative, ritual, masks, photography and theatrical performance as forms of memory and resistance.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because Fugard, Kani and Ntshona expose apartheid control through passbooks and labour restrictions.
• Statement 3 is correct because Walcott examines internalised racial and colonial values.
• Statement 4 is correct because these dramatists use oral narrative, ritual, masks, photography and theatrical performance as forms of memory and resistance.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Wole Soyinka సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. Elesin Oba సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. To accompany the dead king into the ancestral world through ritual death సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. British district officer సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. He sacrifices himself in his father's place. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. It concerns the disruption of a metaphysical and communal order rather than a simple opposition between two cultures. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. John Kani and Winston Ntshona సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. By assuming the identity of the dead Robert Zwelinzima సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. Photographer సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. To control the movement, residence and employment of black South Africans సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: A. Sizwe must become legally dead under one name in order to survive under another. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Derek Walcott సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Makak సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. An internalised colonial ideal of whiteness and beauty సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. He represents internalised colonial authority and changing racial consciousness. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: C. He beheads the image of the white goddess. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. Ama Ata Aidoo సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. Ato and the African American Eulalie సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: D. A woman's resistance to prescribed gender roles within marriage, commerce and a society shaped by slavery సమాధానం: D.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: A. Language may combine colonial and indigenous traditions to express conflict, resistance and hybrid identity. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. 1, 2 and 3 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: C. 1-R, 2-S, 3-Q, 4-P సమాధానం: C.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: D. 3, 4, 1, 2 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 26 ప్రశ్న 26Answer: A. 1, 2, 3 and 4 సమాధానం: A.
