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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Who wrote the sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella?
Explanation:
• Philip Sidney wrote Astrophil and Stella, one of the earliest major sonnet sequences in English.
• The sequence dramatizes Astrophil's desire for Stella and his conflict between passion, reason and virtue.
• Sidney adapted Petrarchan conventions while giving the sequence distinctive psychological and rhetorical complexity.
• Spenser wrote Amoretti, while Daniel and Drayton composed other Elizabethan sonnet sequences.
• The sequence dramatizes Astrophil's desire for Stella and his conflict between passion, reason and virtue.
• Sidney adapted Petrarchan conventions while giving the sequence distinctive psychological and rhetorical complexity.
• Spenser wrote Amoretti, while Daniel and Drayton composed other Elizabethan sonnet sequences.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
What do the names Astrophil and Stella literally suggest?
Explanation:
• Astrophil combines Greek elements meaning star and lover, while Stella is the Latin word for star.
• The names establish the lover's aspiration toward an elevated and seemingly distant beloved.
• This naming reflects the idealizing tendencies of courtly and Petrarchan love poetry.
• The pair does not literally mean shepherd and rose, knight and queen, or poet and muse.
• The names establish the lover's aspiration toward an elevated and seemingly distant beloved.
• This naming reflects the idealizing tendencies of courtly and Petrarchan love poetry.
• The pair does not literally mean shepherd and rose, knight and queen, or poet and muse.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which work by Edmund Spenser is a sonnet sequence celebrating courtship and love?
Explanation:
• Amoretti is Spenser's sonnet sequence associated with his courtship of Elizabeth Boyle.
• Unlike many Petrarchan sequences centred on unattainable love, it moves toward mutual love and marriage.
• The sequence was published together with Epithalamion.
• The Faerie Queene is an allegorical epic, while the other works belong chiefly to Spenser's pastoral poetry.
• Unlike many Petrarchan sequences centred on unattainable love, it moves toward mutual love and marriage.
• The sequence was published together with Epithalamion.
• The Faerie Queene is an allegorical epic, while the other works belong chiefly to Spenser's pastoral poetry.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Epithalamion is best classified as which poetic form?
Explanation:
• Epithalamion is a marriage hymn written by Spenser to celebrate his own wedding.
• The poem follows the progress of the wedding day from dawn toward night and consummation.
• It combines classical invocation, Christian ceremony, personal emotion and elaborate formal design.
• It is therefore neither an elegy, a beast fable nor a verse satire.
• The poem follows the progress of the wedding day from dawn toward night and consummation.
• It combines classical invocation, Christian ceremony, personal emotion and elaborate formal design.
• It is therefore neither an elegy, a beast fable nor a verse satire.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which rhyme scheme characterizes the Spenserian sonnet?
Explanation:
• The Spenserian sonnet uses the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
• Its interlocking rhymes connect the three quatrains more closely than in the Shakespearean form.
• The final couplet provides closure while remaining linked to the preceding rhyme pattern.
• The Petrarchan and Shakespearean schemes follow different structural arrangements.
• Its interlocking rhymes connect the three quatrains more closely than in the Shakespearean form.
• The final couplet provides closure while remaining linked to the preceding rhyme pattern.
• The Petrarchan and Shakespearean schemes follow different structural arrangements.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
What is the normal structural division of a Petrarchan sonnet?
Explanation:
• A Petrarchan sonnet is normally divided into an octave and a sestet.
• The octave often presents a problem, situation or emotional tension.
• The sestet develops a response, qualification or resolution after the volta.
• Three quatrains and a couplet characterize the English sonnet tradition.
• The octave often presents a problem, situation or emotional tension.
• The sestet develops a response, qualification or resolution after the volta.
• Three quatrains and a couplet characterize the English sonnet tradition.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which description best captures the central poetic situation in Astrophil and Stella?
Explanation:
• Astrophil repeatedly struggles between erotic desire and the claims of reason, virtue and self-command.
• Stella is idealized, but the sequence also exposes the lover's self-deception and rhetorical manipulation.
• This conflict gives the sequence greater psychological complexity than a simple celebration of love.
• The dominant situation is not pastoral labour, military conquest or dynastic defence.
• Stella is idealized, but the sequence also exposes the lover's self-deception and rhetorical manipulation.
• This conflict gives the sequence greater psychological complexity than a simple celebration of love.
• The dominant situation is not pastoral labour, military conquest or dynastic defence.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which statement best describes The Faerie Queene?
Explanation:
• The Faerie Queene is an allegorical chivalric epic that combines romance adventure with moral and political symbolism.
• Its knights undertake quests associated with virtues such as holiness, temperance and chastity.
• The poem also engages Elizabethan nationalism, Protestant identity and court culture.
• It is neither an urban comedy, a prose chronicle nor a lyric sequence.
• Its knights undertake quests associated with virtues such as holiness, temperance and chastity.
• The poem also engages Elizabethan nationalism, Protestant identity and court culture.
• It is neither an urban comedy, a prose chronicle nor a lyric sequence.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
In Book I of The Faerie Queene, the Redcrosse Knight chiefly represents which virtue?
Explanation:
• The Redcrosse Knight is the knight of Holiness in Book I of The Faerie Queene.
• His journey involves error, temptation, repentance and spiritual education.
• Una guides him toward truth, while figures such as Duessa represent deception.
• Temperance, chastity and justice become central virtues in other books.
• His journey involves error, temptation, repentance and spiritual education.
• Una guides him toward truth, while figures such as Duessa represent deception.
• Temperance, chastity and justice become central virtues in other books.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which formal pattern defines the Spenserian stanza used in The Faerie Queene?
Explanation:
• The Spenserian stanza contains nine lines.
• The first eight lines are normally in iambic pentameter, and the ninth is an alexandrine of six iambic feet.
• Its rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc.
• The extended final line gives the stanza a distinctive sense of expansion and closure.
• The first eight lines are normally in iambic pentameter, and the ninth is an alexandrine of six iambic feet.
• Its rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc.
• The extended final line gives the stanza a distinctive sense of expansion and closure.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which concept in Renaissance poetics most strongly supports the view that poetry can teach through imaginative pleasure?
Explanation:
• Renaissance defenders of poetry frequently argue that poetry joins delight with instruction.
• Sidney maintains that the poet moves readers toward virtuous action by presenting vivid imaginative examples.
• Poetry is not restricted to recording historical facts and may use fiction to embody moral possibilities.
• The concept connects classical ideas about imitation with humanist educational aims.
• Sidney maintains that the poet moves readers toward virtuous action by presenting vivid imaginative examples.
• Poetry is not restricted to recording historical facts and may use fiction to embody moral possibilities.
• The concept connects classical ideas about imitation with humanist educational aims.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
What is the chief function of allegory in The Faerie Queene?
Explanation:
• Allegory allows characters, places and events in The Faerie Queene to operate on more than one level.
• Romance adventures become vehicles for moral education, Protestant symbolism and political reflection.
• The narrative remains active and imaginative rather than being reduced to literal history.
• Allegory therefore expands rather than removes interpretive possibilities.
• Romance adventures become vehicles for moral education, Protestant symbolism and political reflection.
• The narrative remains active and imaginative rather than being reduced to literal history.
• Allegory therefore expands rather than removes interpretive possibilities.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Consider the following statements about Astrophil and Stella.
Statement I: The sequence adapts conventions of Petrarchan love poetry.
Statement II: The sequence presents Astrophil's arguments as entirely reliable and morally unproblematic.
Statement I: The sequence adapts conventions of Petrarchan love poetry.
Statement II: The sequence presents Astrophil's arguments as entirely reliable and morally unproblematic.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because the sequence uses the distant beloved, frustrated desire, paradox and rhetorical self-analysis associated with Petrarchism.
• Statement II is incorrect because Astrophil is often self-deceiving, manipulative or divided in his reasoning.
• Readers are encouraged to distinguish the speaking lover from Sidney as author.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because Astrophil is often self-deceiving, manipulative or divided in his reasoning.
• Readers are encouraged to distinguish the speaking lover from Sidney as author.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which of the following statements about Amoretti and Epithalamion are correct?
1. Amoretti presents a courtship sequence.
2. Epithalamion celebrates marriage.
3. The two works create a movement from desire toward union.
4. Both works treat love as necessarily unfulfilled.
1. Amoretti presents a courtship sequence.
2. Epithalamion celebrates marriage.
3. The two works create a movement from desire toward union.
4. Both works treat love as necessarily unfulfilled.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Amoretti traces the progress of a courtship.
• Statement 2 is correct because Epithalamion is a marriage hymn.
• Statement 3 is correct because the paired works move from pursuit and resistance toward mutual union.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because Spenser's sequence differs from conventional frustrated Petrarchism by culminating in marriage.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because Epithalamion is a marriage hymn.
• Statement 3 is correct because the paired works move from pursuit and resistance toward mutual union.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because Spenser's sequence differs from conventional frustrated Petrarchism by culminating in marriage.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Assertion: Spenser's sonnet sequence modifies conventional Petrarchan love poetry.
Reason: Amoretti moves toward reciprocal love and marriage rather than permanent frustration.
Reason: Amoretti moves toward reciprocal love and marriage rather than permanent frustration.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Spenser adapts rather than merely repeats Petrarchan conventions.
• The Reason is correct because Amoretti develops toward mutual commitment and marriage.
• Traditional Petrarchan sequences often preserve the beloved's distance and the lover's frustration.
• The Reason directly explains the distinctive modification identified in the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because Amoretti develops toward mutual commitment and marriage.
• Traditional Petrarchan sequences often preserve the beloved's distance and the lover's frustration.
• The Reason directly explains the distinctive modification identified in the Assertion.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Astrophil and Stella
2. Amoretti
3. Epithalamion
4. The Faerie Queene
List II
i. Allegorical epic
ii. Sidney's sonnet sequence
iii. Spenser's courtship sonnets
iv. Marriage hymn
List I
1. Astrophil and Stella
2. Amoretti
3. Epithalamion
4. The Faerie Queene
List II
i. Allegorical epic
ii. Sidney's sonnet sequence
iii. Spenser's courtship sonnets
iv. Marriage hymn
Explanation:
• Astrophil and Stella matches ii because it is Sidney's major sonnet sequence.
• Amoretti matches iii because it records Spenser's courtship in sonnet form.
• Epithalamion matches iv because it is a marriage hymn.
• The Faerie Queene matches i because it is Spenser's allegorical epic.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-ii, 2-iii, 3-iv, 4-i.
• Amoretti matches iii because it records Spenser's courtship in sonnet form.
• Epithalamion matches iv because it is a marriage hymn.
• The Faerie Queene matches i because it is Spenser's allegorical epic.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-ii, 2-iii, 3-iv, 4-i.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which sequence gives the correct movement of the major forms represented by the following Spenserian works?
1. The Shepheardes Calender
2. The Faerie Queene
3. Amoretti
4. Epithalamion
1. The Shepheardes Calender
2. The Faerie Queene
3. Amoretti
4. Epithalamion
Explanation:
• The Shepheardes Calender is a pastoral sequence organized through monthly eclogues.
• The Faerie Queene is an allegorical chivalric epic.
• Amoretti is a sonnet sequence focused on courtship.
• Epithalamion is a marriage hymn.
• The correct formal movement is therefore pastoral, allegorical epic, sonnet sequence and marriage hymn.
• The Faerie Queene is an allegorical chivalric epic.
• Amoretti is a sonnet sequence focused on courtship.
• Epithalamion is a marriage hymn.
• The correct formal movement is therefore pastoral, allegorical epic, sonnet sequence and marriage hymn.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
Explanation:
• Duessa represents falsehood, deception and corrupted religion rather than spiritual truth.
• Astrophil is the lover-speaker of Sidney's sequence, and Stella is his beloved.
• Una in The Faerie Queene is associated with truth and the true church.
• Therefore, the pair linking Duessa with perfect constancy and spiritual truth is incorrect.
• Astrophil is the lover-speaker of Sidney's sequence, and Stella is his beloved.
• Una in The Faerie Queene is associated with truth and the true church.
• Therefore, the pair linking Duessa with perfect constancy and spiritual truth is incorrect.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which statement best explains the function of pastoralism in Elizabethan poetry?
Explanation:
• Elizabethan pastoral uses shepherds and rural landscapes as flexible literary conventions.
• Through apparently simple settings, poets can discuss court politics, religion, love and literary ambition.
• The mode derives substantially from classical models such as Theocritus and Virgil.
• Pastoral speakers are literary constructions rather than necessarily historical shepherds.
• Through apparently simple settings, poets can discuss court politics, religion, love and literary ambition.
• The mode derives substantially from classical models such as Theocritus and Virgil.
• Pastoral speakers are literary constructions rather than necessarily historical shepherds.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which statement best distinguishes the Spenserian sonnet from the Petrarchan sonnet?
Explanation:
• The Spenserian sonnet uses three interlinked quatrains followed by a couplet.
• Its rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee creates continuity across the quatrains.
• The Petrarchan sonnet is normally divided into an octave and a sestet.
• Both forms contain fourteen lines and may employ iambic pentameter and a thematic turn.
• Its rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee creates continuity across the quatrains.
• The Petrarchan sonnet is normally divided into an octave and a sestet.
• Both forms contain fourteen lines and may employ iambic pentameter and a thematic turn.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
In Sidney's Renaissance poetics, why is the poet described as a maker rather than a mere copier?
Explanation:
• Sidney treats the poet as a maker who constructs imaginative worlds rather than merely copying existing reality.
• Poetry can present ideal patterns of virtue and vivid examples of vice.
• These invented models may move readers more effectively than abstract philosophy or factual history alone.
• The idea reflects both classical imitation and Renaissance confidence in creative human agency.
• Poetry can present ideal patterns of virtue and vivid examples of vice.
• These invented models may move readers more effectively than abstract philosophy or factual history alone.
• The idea reflects both classical imitation and Renaissance confidence in creative human agency.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Consider the following statements about The Faerie Queene.
Statement I: Its moral design is organized around the adventures of virtue-bearing knights.
Statement II: Its allegory has only one fixed and exclusively moral meaning.
Statement I: Its moral design is organized around the adventures of virtue-bearing knights.
Statement II: Its allegory has only one fixed and exclusively moral meaning.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because major books centre on knights associated with virtues such as holiness and temperance.
• Statement II is incorrect because the poem's allegory operates across moral, religious, political and historical levels.
• Characters and episodes can sustain several related meanings rather than one rigid interpretation.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because the poem's allegory operates across moral, religious, political and historical levels.
• Characters and episodes can sustain several related meanings rather than one rigid interpretation.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which of the following statements about Elizabethan sonnet sequences are correct?
1. They often develop a continuing relationship across separate poems.
2. They employ rhetorical argument as well as emotional expression.
3. The speaking lover must always be identified directly with the historical poet.
4. They adapt continental conventions to English court culture.
1. They often develop a continuing relationship across separate poems.
2. They employ rhetorical argument as well as emotional expression.
3. The speaking lover must always be identified directly with the historical poet.
4. They adapt continental conventions to English court culture.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because a sonnet sequence can create narrative and emotional development across individual poems.
• Statement 2 is correct because sonnets frequently use persuasion, paradox, debate and self-analysis.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because the lover-speaker is a literary persona and should not automatically be equated with the historical author.
• Statement 4 is correct because Elizabethan poets transformed Petrarchan and other continental conventions within English courtly settings.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because sonnets frequently use persuasion, paradox, debate and self-analysis.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because the lover-speaker is a literary persona and should not automatically be equated with the historical author.
• Statement 4 is correct because Elizabethan poets transformed Petrarchan and other continental conventions within English courtly settings.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which comparison between Sidney and Spenser is most accurate?
Explanation:
• Sidney's Astrophil and Stella dramatizes frustrated desire, rhetorical self-fashioning and conflict between passion and reason.
• Spenser's Amoretti modifies the tradition by moving toward reciprocal love and marriage.
• Both poets participate in Renaissance humanism, court culture and the adaptation of continental forms.
• The contrast lies in their different uses of the sonnet sequence rather than in a rejection of shared traditions.
• Spenser's Amoretti modifies the tradition by moving toward reciprocal love and marriage.
• Both poets participate in Renaissance humanism, court culture and the adaptation of continental forms.
• The contrast lies in their different uses of the sonnet sequence rather than in a rejection of shared traditions.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated statement best describes Sidney's and Spenser's contribution to Elizabethan poetry?
Explanation:
• Sidney and Spenser transformed inherited classical, Italian and French conventions within English poetry.
• Sidney developed the psychologically complex sonnet sequence and a major humanist defence of poetry.
• Spenser reshaped sonnet, pastoral and epic traditions through distinctive stanzaic and allegorical forms.
• Their poetry connects love, moral education, court culture, religion and national literary ambition.
• Sidney developed the psychologically complex sonnet sequence and a major humanist defence of poetry.
• Spenser reshaped sonnet, pastoral and epic traditions through distinctive stanzaic and allegorical forms.
• Their poetry connects love, moral education, court culture, religion and national literary ambition.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Philip Sidney సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. Star-lover and star సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Amoretti సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. A marriage hymn సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. abab bcbc cdcd ee సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. An octave and a sestet సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. A lover struggles between desire and moral reason సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. An allegorical chivalric epic సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Holiness సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Eight lines of iambic pentameter followed by an alexandrine సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Poetry combines delight with instruction సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. To connect romance adventures with moral, religious and political meanings సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: D. 1, 2 and 3 only సమాధానం: D.
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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-ii, 2-iii, 3-iv, 4-i సమాధానం: B.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: D. Pastoral, allegorical epic, sonnet sequence, marriage hymn సమాధానం: D.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: D. Duessa — perfect constancy and spiritual truth సమాధానం: D.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. It provides a rural framework that may indirectly address love, politics and poetic identity సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. The Spenserian form uses interlocking quatrain rhymes and a closing couplet సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: B. The poet creates imaginative models of what may or should be సమాధానం: B.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. Sidney uses the sonnet sequence to dramatize divided desire, while Spenser reshapes it toward courtship and marriage సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. They adapted classical and continental forms while developing distinct models of love, allegory and poetic vocation సమాధానం: A.
