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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which statement best defines textual criticism?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Textual criticism studies manuscripts, printed editions and other witnesses of a work.
• It identifies and evaluates differences among witnesses in order to understand transmission and establish a defensible text.
• The discipline may also investigate revision, corruption and editorial intervention.
• It is distinct from reader surveys, biography and unsupported interpretation.
• It identifies and evaluates differences among witnesses in order to understand transmission and establish a defensible text.
• The discipline may also investigate revision, corruption and editorial intervention.
• It is distinct from reader surveys, biography and unsupported interpretation.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
In textual scholarship, a manuscript is:
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Explanation:
• A manuscript is a handwritten or otherwise unpublished documentary witness containing a text.
• Manuscripts may preserve authorial drafts, scribal copies, revisions or annotations.
• They are important because they can record stages of composition and transmission.
• A critical article or bibliography is secondary scholarship rather than a manuscript witness.
• Manuscripts may preserve authorial drafts, scribal copies, revisions or annotations.
• They are important because they can record stages of composition and transmission.
• A critical article or bibliography is secondary scholarship rather than a manuscript witness.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
A textual variant is best understood as:
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Explanation:
• A textual variant is a difference found when two or more witnesses of a text are compared.
• Variants may involve words, spelling, punctuation, lineation, omissions, additions or ordering.
• Some variants are authorial, while others arise from scribal, compositorial or editorial intervention.
• Recording and evaluating variants is central to textual criticism.
• Variants may involve words, spelling, punctuation, lineation, omissions, additions or ordering.
• Some variants are authorial, while others arise from scribal, compositorial or editorial intervention.
• Recording and evaluating variants is central to textual criticism.
వివరణ:
Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
In scholarly editing, the term copy-text generally refers to:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A copy-text is the witness selected to provide the principal textual basis of an edition.
• An editor may adopt readings from other witnesses when the evidence justifies doing so.
• The choice of copy-text should be explained through explicit editorial principles.
• Copy-text does not necessarily mean the earliest witness or an unaltered reproduction of one source.
• An editor may adopt readings from other witnesses when the evidence justifies doing so.
• The choice of copy-text should be explained through explicit editorial principles.
• Copy-text does not necessarily mean the earliest witness or an unaltered reproduction of one source.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Recension in textual criticism primarily involves:
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Explanation:
• Recension is the systematic examination and classification of surviving witnesses.
• Its purpose is to identify relationships, families of readings and possible lines of transmission.
• The process may contribute to the construction of a stemma codicum.
• It is broader than casual proofreading or reviewing an edition.
• Its purpose is to identify relationships, families of readings and possible lines of transmission.
• The process may contribute to the construction of a stemma codicum.
• It is broader than casual proofreading or reviewing an edition.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Emendation is:
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Explanation:
• Emendation is an editorial correction made when a transmitted reading appears corrupt, impossible or seriously defective.
• An emendation may be supported by another witness or proposed conjecturally when no satisfactory reading survives.
• Responsible editors explain significant emendations in notes or an apparatus.
• Emendation should be evidence-based rather than arbitrary.
• An emendation may be supported by another witness or proposed conjecturally when no satisfactory reading survives.
• Responsible editors explain significant emendations in notes or an apparatus.
• Emendation should be evidence-based rather than arbitrary.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
A stemma codicum is:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A stemma codicum is a genealogical diagram used to represent inferred relationships among manuscripts or other witnesses.
• It may indicate descent from common exemplars and help identify shared errors.
• The stemmatic method is most useful when transmission is relatively uncontaminated.
• A stemma is not a bibliography, transcription or influence map.
• It may indicate descent from common exemplars and help identify shared errors.
• The stemmatic method is most useful when transmission is relatively uncontaminated.
• A stemma is not a bibliography, transcription or influence map.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which feature most clearly distinguishes a critical edition?
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Explanation:
• A critical edition presents a text established through evaluation of textual evidence.
• It normally includes an introduction, editorial principles, textual notes or a critical apparatus.
• Significant variants and uncertain readings should be documented rather than concealed.
• Silent modernisation without explanation weakens scholarly transparency.
• It normally includes an introduction, editorial principles, textual notes or a critical apparatus.
• Significant variants and uncertain readings should be documented rather than concealed.
• Silent modernisation without explanation weakens scholarly transparency.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
A scholarly edition is best characterised by:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A scholarly edition documents the evidence and principles underlying its text.
• It may include textual history, explanatory notes, variants, appendices and bibliographical information.
• Transparency enables readers to assess and, where necessary, challenge editorial decisions.
• A scholarly edition does not treat a commercial reprint as automatically authoritative.
• It may include textual history, explanatory notes, variants, appendices and bibliographical information.
• Transparency enables readers to assess and, where necessary, challenge editorial decisions.
• A scholarly edition does not treat a commercial reprint as automatically authoritative.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Genetic criticism focuses primarily on:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Genetic criticism studies the genesis and development of a work.
• Drafts, notebooks, corrected proofs and successive revisions reveal stages of composition.
• The method often resists treating the final published form as the only meaningful state of the work.
• Its concern is textual production rather than biological genealogy or market valuation.
• Drafts, notebooks, corrected proofs and successive revisions reveal stages of composition.
• The method often resists treating the final published form as the only meaningful state of the work.
• Its concern is textual production rather than biological genealogy or market valuation.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which statement about authorial revisions is correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Authorial revisions can produce materially different versions or states of a work.
• Editors must determine whether revisions represent correction, adaptation, censorship, reconsideration or a new version.
• An earlier state may retain independent historical or literary significance.
• No single rule automatically makes every later revision superior.
• Editors must determine whether revisions represent correction, adaptation, censorship, reconsideration or a new version.
• An earlier state may retain independent historical or literary significance.
• No single rule automatically makes every later revision superior.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
The primary function of a critical apparatus is to:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A critical apparatus records textual evidence relevant to the constitution of the edited text.
• It may identify variant readings, rejected alternatives, sources and editorial emendations.
• The apparatus allows readers to reconstruct or evaluate important editorial choices.
• It supports rather than replaces the edited text.
• It may identify variant readings, rejected alternatives, sources and editorial emendations.
• The apparatus allows readers to reconstruct or evaluate important editorial choices.
• It supports rather than replaces the edited text.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which practice best exemplifies a diplomatic transcription?
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Explanation:
• A diplomatic transcription aims to represent a particular document with minimal normalisation.
• It commonly preserves spelling, punctuation, abbreviations, lineation and visible textual features according to stated conventions.
• Such a transcription is useful when the document itself is the object of study.
• It differs from an eclectic edition assembled from multiple witnesses.
• It commonly preserves spelling, punctuation, abbreviations, lineation and visible textual features according to stated conventions.
• Such a transcription is useful when the document itself is the object of study.
• It differs from an eclectic edition assembled from multiple witnesses.
వివరణ:
Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Statement I: Every later edition is necessarily more authoritative than every earlier edition.
Statement II: The authority of an edition depends on evidence such as authorial involvement, textual history and editorial intervention.
Statement II: The authority of an edition depends on evidence such as authorial involvement, textual history and editorial intervention.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is incorrect because later editions may contain unauthorised changes, new errors or commercial modernisation.
• Statement II is correct because authority must be assessed through documentary and historical evidence.
• Date alone cannot determine textual value.
• Therefore, Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct.
• Statement II is correct because authority must be assessed through documentary and historical evidence.
• Date alone cannot determine textual value.
• Therefore, Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Assertion: An editor should state the principles used to choose among variant readings.
Reason: Explicit principles allow readers to evaluate the consistency and evidential basis of editorial decisions.
Reason: Explicit principles allow readers to evaluate the consistency and evidential basis of editorial decisions.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because editorial choices should follow declared and defensible principles.
• The Reason is correct because transparency allows readers to assess whether those principles were applied consistently.
• Documented reasoning is especially important when witnesses conflict or evidence is uncertain.
• The Reason directly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because transparency allows readers to assess whether those principles were applied consistently.
• Documented reasoning is especially important when witnesses conflict or evidence is uncertain.
• The Reason directly explains the Assertion.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Recension
2. Emendation
3. Stemma
4. Genetic criticism
List II
A. Study of compositional development
B. Correction of a defective reading
C. Classification of textual witnesses
D. Diagram of genealogical relationships
List I
1. Recension
2. Emendation
3. Stemma
4. Genetic criticism
List II
A. Study of compositional development
B. Correction of a defective reading
C. Classification of textual witnesses
D. Diagram of genealogical relationships
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Recension matches C because it classifies and compares textual witnesses.
• Emendation matches B because it corrects a reading judged defective or corrupt.
• Stemma matches D because it diagrams inferred genealogical relationships among witnesses.
• Genetic criticism matches A because it studies the development of a work through drafts and revisions.
• Emendation matches B because it corrects a reading judged defective or corrupt.
• Stemma matches D because it diagrams inferred genealogical relationships among witnesses.
• Genetic criticism matches A because it studies the development of a work through drafts and revisions.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Consider the following statements about establishing a reliable text:
1. All surviving witnesses should be evaluated according to their textual history.
2. The earliest surviving witness must always be followed without exception.
3. Significant editorial interventions should be documented.
4. Authorial revisions may require the editor to distinguish separate versions.
Which statements are correct?
1. All surviving witnesses should be evaluated according to their textual history.
2. The earliest surviving witness must always be followed without exception.
3. Significant editorial interventions should be documented.
4. Authorial revisions may require the editor to distinguish separate versions.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because witnesses must be assessed in relation to provenance, transmission and authority.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because the earliest surviving witness may be corrupt, derivative or superseded by authorised revision.
• Statement 3 is correct because documentation makes editorial intervention transparent.
• Statement 4 is correct; therefore, the correct combination is 1, 3 and 4 only.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because the earliest surviving witness may be corrupt, derivative or superseded by authorised revision.
• Statement 3 is correct because documentation makes editorial intervention transparent.
• Statement 4 is correct; therefore, the correct combination is 1, 3 and 4 only.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
An editor encounters a passage that is nonsensical in every surviving witness and proposes a plausible reading not found in any of them. This is:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A conjectural emendation is a reading proposed by the editor when the transmitted witnesses preserve no satisfactory text.
• The proposal should account for the apparent corruption and fit the language, context and transmission of the work.
• It must be clearly identified rather than presented as if it were documentary evidence.
• Facsimile and diplomatic methods reproduce a witness instead of inventing a corrective reading.
• The proposal should account for the apparent corruption and fit the language, context and transmission of the work.
• It must be clearly identified rather than presented as if it were documentary evidence.
• Facsimile and diplomatic methods reproduce a witness instead of inventing a corrective reading.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which situation most clearly indicates contamination in textual transmission?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Contamination occurs when a witness draws readings from more than one line or branch of transmission.
• Such mixture complicates a simple genealogical stemma because descent is no longer strictly branching.
• It may result from scribes consulting several exemplars.
• Missing leaves, page numbering and signatures do not by themselves establish contamination.
• Such mixture complicates a simple genealogical stemma because descent is no longer strictly branching.
• It may result from scribes consulting several exemplars.
• Missing leaves, page numbering and signatures do not by themselves establish contamination.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which statement best distinguishes an eclectic edition from a diplomatic edition?
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Explanation:
• An eclectic edition constructs its text by selecting readings judged best from more than one witness.
• A diplomatic edition or transcription aims to reproduce the features of a particular document closely.
• Both require editorial judgement, but they pursue different objectives.
• Neither method is necessarily a facsimile or a translation.
• A diplomatic edition or transcription aims to reproduce the features of a particular document closely.
• Both require editorial judgement, but they pursue different objectives.
• Neither method is necessarily a facsimile or a translation.
వివరణ:
Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which of the following is an incorrect editorial practice?
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Explanation:
• Silently simplifying difficult readings is an unsound editorial practice because difficulty alone does not prove corruption.
• Significant changes should be justified and documented.
• Editors should explain how spelling, punctuation and other features are treated.
• Conjectural readings must be distinguished from readings supported by witnesses.
• Significant changes should be justified and documented.
• Editors should explain how spelling, punctuation and other features are treated.
• Conjectural readings must be distinguished from readings supported by witnesses.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A scholar wants to study how a poem developed from notebook fragments through several drafts to the published version. Which approach is most appropriate?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Genetic criticism examines the compositional process represented by drafts, notes, revisions and proofs.
• It can trace deletion, addition, substitution and reordering across successive stages.
• The method treats the archive of composition as evidence of creative development.
• Reception study and survey research address different research questions.
• It can trace deletion, addition, substitution and reordering across successive stages.
• The method treats the archive of composition as evidence of creative development.
• Reception study and survey research address different research questions.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which sequence best represents a traditional stemmatic procedure?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The process begins by collating the available witnesses and recording their readings.
• Shared significant errors and agreements are then used to infer genealogical relationships.
• These relationships may be represented in a stemma codicum.
• A stemma must arise from evidence rather than being constructed before collation.
• Shared significant errors and agreements are then used to infer genealogical relationships.
• These relationships may be represented in a stemma codicum.
• A stemma must arise from evidence rather than being constructed before collation.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
An editor publishes two substantially different authorially revised states of a novel in parallel rather than merging them. What principle does this decision recognise?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Substantially revised states may constitute distinct versions rather than mere collections of isolated variants.
• Presenting them separately preserves their individual historical and artistic integrity.
• Merging readings can create a composite text that never existed in any authorised form.
• Versional editing is especially appropriate when revision changes structure, meaning or intended audience.
• Presenting them separately preserves their individual historical and artistic integrity.
• Merging readings can create a composite text that never existed in any authorised form.
• Versional editing is especially appropriate when revision changes structure, meaning or intended audience.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which combination represents the strongest basis for establishing a reliable scholarly text?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A reliable scholarly text depends on comprehensive collation and critical evaluation of relevant witnesses.
• The editor must assess provenance, authority, transmission and possible revision.
• Stated principles promote consistency, while an apparatus documents significant choices and uncertainty.
• Recency, brevity or indiscriminate conflation cannot substitute for textual evidence.
• The editor must assess provenance, authority, transmission and possible revision.
• Stated principles promote consistency, while an apparatus documents significant choices and uncertainty.
• Recency, brevity or indiscriminate conflation cannot substitute for textual evidence.
వివరణ:
Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. The systematic study of textual witnesses to identify, explain and evaluate variant readings సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. A handwritten or otherwise unpublished documentary witness of a text సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: A. A difference in wording, spelling, punctuation or arrangement among textual witnesses సమాధానం: A.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. The textual witness chosen as the principal basis for an edited text సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. Classifying and comparing textual witnesses to determine their relationships సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: A. The correction or alteration of a reading judged to be corrupt or defective సమాధానం: A.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. A genealogical diagram representing relationships among textual witnesses సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: C. It presents an edited text supported by evidence, variants and documented editorial decisions. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Transparent documentation of sources, editorial principles and significant interventions సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Studying the processes of composition through drafts, revisions and working documents సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: D. They may create distinct textual states that require editorial interpretation. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: C. Record significant variant readings, sources and editorial interventions సమాధానం: C.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: D. Reproducing a source as closely as possible, including original spelling, punctuation and lineation సమాధానం: D.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: C. Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct సమాధానం: C.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: B. 1-C, 2-B, 3-D, 4-A సమాధానం: B.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: C. 1, 3 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. A conjectural emendation సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. A manuscript combines readings derived from more than one branch of transmission. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: A. An eclectic edition selects readings from multiple witnesses, whereas a diplomatic edition closely represents one document. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: D. Silently changing difficult readings merely to make the text easier సమాధానం: D.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. Genetic criticism సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. Collate witnesses, identify significant agreements and errors, infer relationships, construct a stemma సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: A. Distinct authorial versions may possess independent textual integrity. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: D. Collating relevant witnesses, assessing their authority, applying stated principles and documenting decisions సమాధానం: D.