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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which playwright is the principal surviving representative of Athenian Old Comedy?
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Explanation:
• Aristophanes is the principal surviving representative of Athenian Old Comedy.
• His plays combine political satire, fantasy, topical allusion, choral spectacle and personal invective.
• Menander represents Greek New Comedy, while Plautus and Terence are Roman comic dramatists.
• Eleven complete plays by Aristophanes survive.
• His plays combine political satire, fantasy, topical allusion, choral spectacle and personal invective.
• Menander represents Greek New Comedy, while Plautus and Terence are Roman comic dramatists.
• Eleven complete plays by Aristophanes survive.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
In Lysistrata, the women attempt to end the Peloponnesian War primarily by
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Explanation:
• Lysistrata persuades women from the warring Greek communities to withhold sexual relations until the men make peace.
• The women also seize control of the Athenian treasury, connecting war with public finance.
• The plot turns domestic and sexual power into an instrument of anti-war satire.
• The play was first produced in 411 BCE during the Peloponnesian War.
• The women also seize control of the Athenian treasury, connecting war with public finance.
• The plot turns domestic and sexual power into an instrument of anti-war satire.
• The play was first produced in 411 BCE during the Peloponnesian War.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which intellectual figure is satirically portrayed as the head of the Thinkery in The Clouds?
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Explanation:
• Aristophanes presents Socrates as the head of the Thinkery in The Clouds.
• The comic portrayal associates him with speculative inquiry, rhetorical manipulation and fashionable education.
• This stage caricature should not be treated as an accurate account of the historical Socrates.
• Cleon is attacked prominently in other Aristophanic comedies, especially The Knights.
• The comic portrayal associates him with speculative inquiry, rhetorical manipulation and fashionable education.
• This stage caricature should not be treated as an accurate account of the historical Socrates.
• Cleon is attacked prominently in other Aristophanic comedies, especially The Knights.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which feature is most characteristic of Old Comedy?
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Explanation:
• Old Comedy is marked by topical satire, extravagant fantasy, direct attacks on public figures and an important chorus.
• It frequently addresses war, politics, education, intellectual fashion and civic life.
• Domestic intrigue becomes more central in New Comedy.
• The genre's freedom of attack distinguishes it from the more socially generalised comedy of Menander.
• It frequently addresses war, politics, education, intellectual fashion and civic life.
• Domestic intrigue becomes more central in New Comedy.
• The genre's freedom of attack distinguishes it from the more socially generalised comedy of Menander.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
The section of Old Comedy in which the chorus directly addresses the audience, often on behalf of the poet, is called the
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Explanation:
• The parabasis is a distinctive feature of Old Comedy in which the chorus addresses the audience directly.
• It may comment on public affairs, rivals, the dramatic competition or the poet's own claims.
• A stasimon is a choral ode associated especially with tragedy.
• The prologue opens a play, while the exodos is its concluding section.
• It may comment on public affairs, rivals, the dramatic competition or the poet's own claims.
• A stasimon is a choral ode associated especially with tragedy.
• The prologue opens a play, while the exodos is its concluding section.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which statement best describes the chorus in Aristophanic comedy?
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Explanation:
• Aristophanic choruses may consist of unusual groups such as clouds, birds, frogs or wasps.
• They sing, dance, debate, comment on events and contribute to the play's visual and political imagination.
• The chorus is therefore both a dramatic participant and a vehicle of comic spectacle.
• Its prominence declines in the later development of Greek comedy.
• They sing, dance, debate, comment on events and contribute to the play's visual and political imagination.
• The chorus is therefore both a dramatic participant and a vehicle of comic spectacle.
• Its prominence declines in the later development of Greek comedy.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Who is the best-known representative of Greek New Comedy?
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Explanation:
• Menander is the best-known representative of Greek New Comedy.
• His plays concentrate on domestic life, romantic obstacles, family recognition and social types.
• Aristophanes represents Old Comedy, while Cratinus was another Old Comic poet.
• Aeschylus was a tragedian rather than a comic dramatist.
• His plays concentrate on domestic life, romantic obstacles, family recognition and social types.
• Aristophanes represents Old Comedy, while Cratinus was another Old Comic poet.
• Aeschylus was a tragedian rather than a comic dramatist.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which of the following plays was written by Menander?
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Explanation:
• Dyskolos, also known as The Grouch, is the only substantially complete play by Menander.
• It centres on the misanthropic Knemon and a marriage plot involving social reconciliation.
• The Birds is by Aristophanes.
• The Brothers is associated with Terence, while Amphitryon is by Plautus.
• It centres on the misanthropic Knemon and a marriage plot involving social reconciliation.
• The Birds is by Aristophanes.
• The Brothers is associated with Terence, while Amphitryon is by Plautus.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
New Comedy differs from Old Comedy chiefly in its greater emphasis on
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Explanation:
• New Comedy shifts attention from topical political satire to private and domestic concerns.
• Its plots commonly involve young lovers, obstructive fathers, lost children, recognition scenes and marriage.
• Stock characters and intricate intrigue become more important than direct attacks on named public figures.
• This pattern strongly influenced Roman comedy and later European comic traditions.
• Its plots commonly involve young lovers, obstructive fathers, lost children, recognition scenes and marriage.
• Stock characters and intricate intrigue become more important than direct attacks on named public figures.
• This pattern strongly influenced Roman comedy and later European comic traditions.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which Roman comic playwright adapted Greek New Comedy with especially energetic language, musicality and broad farce?
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Explanation:
• Plautus adapted Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences with verbal exuberance, songs, slapstick and metatheatrical humour.
• His surviving comedies often intensify the role of clever slaves and comic deception.
• Terence is generally associated with a more restrained and polished style.
• Seneca wrote tragedies, while Horace is primarily known as a poet and critic.
• His surviving comedies often intensify the role of clever slaves and comic deception.
• Terence is generally associated with a more restrained and polished style.
• Seneca wrote tragedies, while Horace is primarily known as a poet and critic.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which Roman playwright is associated with the comedies The Brothers and The Mother-in-Law?
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Explanation:
• Terence wrote The Brothers and The Mother-in-Law.
• His six extant comedies adapt Greek New Comic models and are noted for elegant language and ethical complexity.
• Plautus wrote plays such as Menaechmi, Miles Gloriosus and Amphitryon.
• Ennius and Juvenal belong to other Roman literary traditions.
• His six extant comedies adapt Greek New Comic models and are noted for elegant language and ethical complexity.
• Plautus wrote plays such as Menaechmi, Miles Gloriosus and Amphitryon.
• Ennius and Juvenal belong to other Roman literary traditions.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
The Latin expression fabula palliata refers to
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Explanation:
• Fabula palliata is Roman comedy adapted from Greek New Comedy and normally set in a Greek environment.
• Its name derives from the pallium, a Greek cloak.
• Plautus and Terence are the major surviving writers of this form.
• Comedy dealing with Roman settings and dress was termed fabula togata.
• Its name derives from the pallium, a Greek cloak.
• Plautus and Terence are the major surviving writers of this form.
• Comedy dealing with Roman settings and dress was termed fabula togata.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which Plautine play centres on twin brothers whose identical appearance produces a chain of mistaken identities?
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Explanation:
• Menaechmi centres on separated twin brothers whose identical appearance generates repeated confusion.
• The mistaken-identity plot influenced later European comedy, most famously Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.
• The Pot of Gold concerns an avaricious old man, while Pseudolus foregrounds a clever slave.
• The Captives uses a different pattern of exchange and recognition.
• The mistaken-identity plot influenced later European comedy, most famously Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.
• The Pot of Gold concerns an avaricious old man, while Pseudolus foregrounds a clever slave.
• The Captives uses a different pattern of exchange and recognition.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which stock character is most closely associated with the Latin term servus callidus?
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Explanation:
• Servus callidus means the clever or cunning slave.
• This figure devises schemes, deceives authority figures and often controls the comic action.
• Pseudolus in Plautus is a famous example.
• The boastful soldier is the miles gloriosus, while the young lover is commonly the adulescens.
• This figure devises schemes, deceives authority figures and often controls the comic action.
• Pseudolus in Plautus is a famous example.
• The boastful soldier is the miles gloriosus, while the young lover is commonly the adulescens.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
The stock character known as the miles gloriosus is best described as
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Explanation:
• The miles gloriosus is the braggart soldier who boasts of military and romantic success.
• Comic plots commonly expose his vanity, gullibility or cowardice.
• Plautus's Miles Gloriosus gives the type its most famous Roman formulation.
• The character influenced later figures such as the stage braggart and comic soldier.
• Comic plots commonly expose his vanity, gullibility or cowardice.
• Plautus's Miles Gloriosus gives the type its most famous Roman formulation.
• The character influenced later figures such as the stage braggart and comic soldier.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Consider the following statements about Aristophanes.
Statement I: Lysistrata uses a fantastic collective action by women to satirise warfare.
Statement II: The Clouds treats contemporary education and intellectual fashion as objects of comedy.
Choose the correct answer.
Statement I: Lysistrata uses a fantastic collective action by women to satirise warfare.
Statement II: The Clouds treats contemporary education and intellectual fashion as objects of comedy.
Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because the women organise a sex strike and seize the treasury to force peace.
• Statement II is correct because The Clouds satirises new education, rhetoric and speculative thought through the Thinkery.
• Both plays transform contemporary Athenian concerns into extravagant comic plots.
• Therefore, both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
• Statement II is correct because The Clouds satirises new education, rhetoric and speculative thought through the Thinkery.
• Both plays transform contemporary Athenian concerns into extravagant comic plots.
• Therefore, both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which of the following statements about Greek New Comedy are correct?
1. It commonly uses stock characters.
2. It often employs recognition and mistaken identity.
3. It concentrates more on private life than direct political attack.
4. It gives the parabasis the same central role found in early Old Comedy.
1. It commonly uses stock characters.
2. It often employs recognition and mistaken identity.
3. It concentrates more on private life than direct political attack.
4. It gives the parabasis the same central role found in early Old Comedy.
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because New Comedy relies on types such as the young lover, strict father, clever slave and parasite.
• Statement 2 is correct because recognition, concealed identity and misunderstanding frequently drive the plot.
• Statement 3 is correct because domestic and social relationships replace much of Old Comedy's direct political satire.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because the parabasis and the chorus's central role decline in New Comedy.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because recognition, concealed identity and misunderstanding frequently drive the plot.
• Statement 3 is correct because domestic and social relationships replace much of Old Comedy's direct political satire.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because the parabasis and the chorus's central role decline in New Comedy.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Assertion: Roman comedy became a major channel through which Greek New Comedy influenced later European drama.
Reason: Plautus and Terence adapted Greek comic plots, character types and situations into Latin plays that remained available to later writers.
Choose the correct answer.
Reason: Plautus and Terence adapted Greek comic plots, character types and situations into Latin plays that remained available to later writers.
Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because later European dramatists often encountered New Comic conventions through Latin comedy.
• The Reason is correct because Plautus and Terence preserved and reshaped Greek plots, stock characters and recognition devices.
• Their plays influenced Renaissance school drama, humanist comedy, Shakespeare, Molière and other traditions.
• The Reason directly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because Plautus and Terence preserved and reshaped Greek plots, stock characters and recognition devices.
• Their plays influenced Renaissance school drama, humanist comedy, Shakespeare, Molière and other traditions.
• The Reason directly explains the Assertion.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Aristophanes
2. Menander
3. Plautus
4. Terence
List II
P. The Brothers
Q. The Clouds
R. Dyskolos
S. Menaechmi
Choose the correct code.
List I
1. Aristophanes
2. Menander
3. Plautus
4. Terence
List II
P. The Brothers
Q. The Clouds
R. Dyskolos
S. Menaechmi
Choose the correct code.
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Explanation:
• Aristophanes matches The Clouds, a satire on education and intellectual fashion.
• Menander matches Dyskolos, a major surviving example of New Comedy.
• Plautus matches Menaechmi, a comedy of twins and mistaken identity.
• Terence matches The Brothers, a comedy concerned with contrasting methods of upbringing.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-Q, 2-R, 3-S, 4-P.
• Menander matches Dyskolos, a major surviving example of New Comedy.
• Plautus matches Menaechmi, a comedy of twins and mistaken identity.
• Terence matches The Brothers, a comedy concerned with contrasting methods of upbringing.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-Q, 2-R, 3-S, 4-P.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Arrange the following comic traditions in chronological order.
1. Roman comedy of Plautus and Terence
2. Greek New Comedy
3. Athenian Old Comedy
4. Renaissance European adaptation of classical comedy
1. Roman comedy of Plautus and Terence
2. Greek New Comedy
3. Athenian Old Comedy
4. Renaissance European adaptation of classical comedy
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Explanation:
• Athenian Old Comedy flourished in the fifth century BCE, with Aristophanes as its chief surviving representative.
• Greek New Comedy developed later, especially in the late fourth and early third centuries BCE.
• Plautus and Terence adapted Greek comic materials for Roman audiences.
• Renaissance European dramatists subsequently revived and transformed Greek and Roman comic conventions.
• The correct sequence is 3, 2, 1, 4.
• Greek New Comedy developed later, especially in the late fourth and early third centuries BCE.
• Plautus and Terence adapted Greek comic materials for Roman audiences.
• Renaissance European dramatists subsequently revived and transformed Greek and Roman comic conventions.
• The correct sequence is 3, 2, 1, 4.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• The pair Menaechmi — Terence's comedy of separated twins is incorrect.
• Menaechmi was written by Plautus and uses identical twins to generate mistaken identity.
• The Clouds is Aristophanes' satire on intellectual and educational fashions.
• Lysistrata is an anti-war comedy, and Dyskolos is Menander's comedy centred on the misanthropic Knemon.
• Menaechmi was written by Plautus and uses identical twins to generate mistaken identity.
• The Clouds is Aristophanes' satire on intellectual and educational fashions.
• Lysistrata is an anti-war comedy, and Dyskolos is Menander's comedy centred on the misanthropic Knemon.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which plot device most directly links Menaechmi with Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors?
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Explanation:
• Both Menaechmi and The Comedy of Errors exploit confusion caused by separated twins.
• Shakespeare expands the pattern by using two sets of twins.
• The device creates repeated misrecognition, false accusation and comic bewilderment before final reunion.
• This is a clear example of Roman comedy's influence on Renaissance European drama.
• Shakespeare expands the pattern by using two sets of twins.
• The device creates repeated misrecognition, false accusation and comic bewilderment before final reunion.
• This is a clear example of Roman comedy's influence on Renaissance European drama.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which statement best distinguishes Plautus from Terence?
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Explanation:
• Plautus is known for energetic farce, songs, wordplay, metatheatre and strongly comic stock figures.
• Terence generally employs a smoother style, balanced dialogue and greater ethical or psychological nuance.
• Both adapted Greek New Comic sources rather than rejecting them.
• Neither distinction can be reduced to tragedy, literal translation or invention of the chorus.
• Terence generally employs a smoother style, balanced dialogue and greater ethical or psychological nuance.
• Both adapted Greek New Comic sources rather than rejecting them.
• Neither distinction can be reduced to tragedy, literal translation or invention of the chorus.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which analysis best explains why mistaken identity became so productive in Greek New Comedy and Roman comedy?
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Explanation:
• Mistaken identity delays recognition and allows characters to act on false assumptions.
• It creates comic irony because spectators may understand relationships that the characters do not.
• Recognition at the end can restore family bonds, enable marriage and reorganise social relationships.
• The device therefore tests the instability of social identity while still permitting a conventional resolution.
• It creates comic irony because spectators may understand relationships that the characters do not.
• Recognition at the end can restore family bonds, enable marriage and reorganise social relationships.
• The device therefore tests the instability of social identity while still permitting a conventional resolution.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which combination correctly identifies major lines of influence from classical comedy?
1. Plautus's Menaechmi influenced Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.
2. The braggart soldier contributed to later European stage types.
3. New Comedy's domestic intrigue shaped Renaissance and neoclassical comedy.
4. Terence's plays were used as models in European education and humanist drama.
1. Plautus's Menaechmi influenced Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.
2. The braggart soldier contributed to later European stage types.
3. New Comedy's domestic intrigue shaped Renaissance and neoclassical comedy.
4. Terence's plays were used as models in European education and humanist drama.
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Shakespeare adapts the twin-confusion pattern associated with Menaechmi.
• Statement 2 is correct because the miles gloriosus became an enduring model for comic braggarts.
• Statement 3 is correct because love plots, family obstacles and recognition scenes entered later European comedy.
• Statement 4 is correct because Terence's Latin style and dramatic structure were widely studied and imitated.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because the miles gloriosus became an enduring model for comic braggarts.
• Statement 3 is correct because love plots, family obstacles and recognition scenes entered later European comedy.
• Statement 4 is correct because Terence's Latin style and dramatic structure were widely studied and imitated.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Aristophanes సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. withholding sexual relations from the men సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: D. Socrates సమాధానం: D.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: C. Topical political satire combined with fantasy and personal attack సమాధానం: C.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. parabasis సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: D. It may embody an imaginative group and participate actively in satire and spectacle. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: B. Menander సమాధానం: B.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: C. Dyskolos సమాధానం: C.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. domestic intrigue, love, family conflict and recognisable social types సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. Plautus సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: B. Terence సమాధానం: B.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Roman comedy adapted from Greek models and set in a Greek world సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Menaechmi సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: C. The clever slave సమాధానం: C.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: B. a boastful and often cowardly soldier సమాధానం: B.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: D. 1, 2 and 3 only సమాధానం: D.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: B. 1-Q, 2-R, 3-S, 4-P సమాధానం: B.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: A. 3, 2, 1, 4 సమాధానం: A.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: D. Menaechmi — Terence's comedy of separated twins సమాధానం: D.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: C. Confusion caused by separated twins సమాధానం: C.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: B. Plautus tends toward exuberant farce and verbal play, whereas Terence often favours polished dialogue and more restrained character interaction. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. It allowed comic plots to test social roles while delaying recognition and reunion. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: D. 1, 2, 3 and 4 సమాధానం: D.