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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Who wrote Dover Beach?
Explanation:
• Matthew Arnold wrote Dover Beach, one of the best-known poems about the Victorian crisis of faith.
• The poem begins with a calm description of the English Channel but gradually moves toward anxiety and uncertainty.
• Arnold uses the retreating Sea of Faith as a metaphor for the decline of traditional religious certainty.
• Rossetti and Hopkins address related Victorian concerns through different poetic styles.
• The poem begins with a calm description of the English Channel but gradually moves toward anxiety and uncertainty.
• Arnold uses the retreating Sea of Faith as a metaphor for the decline of traditional religious certainty.
• Rossetti and Hopkins address related Victorian concerns through different poetic styles.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
What does the Sea of Faith chiefly symbolize in Dover Beach?
Explanation:
• The Sea of Faith symbolizes the religious belief that once seemed to surround and sustain humanity.
• Its retreat represents the weakening of traditional Christian certainty in the Victorian period.
• Scientific discoveries, historical criticism and social change contributed to this intellectual crisis.
• Arnold presents the decline as emotionally painful rather than as uncomplicated progress.
• Its retreat represents the weakening of traditional Christian certainty in the Victorian period.
• Scientific discoveries, historical criticism and social change contributed to this intellectual crisis.
• Arnold presents the decline as emotionally painful rather than as uncomplicated progress.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which sequence best describes the movement of thought in Dover Beach?
Explanation:
• Dover Beach opens with a seemingly peaceful nocturnal landscape.
• The sound of the waves leads the speaker toward thoughts of human suffering and the retreat of faith.
• The poem concludes with an appeal that the lovers remain true to one another.
• Private fidelity becomes a possible response to a world lacking certainty and stable meaning.
• The sound of the waves leads the speaker toward thoughts of human suffering and the retreat of faith.
• The poem concludes with an appeal that the lovers remain true to one another.
• Private fidelity becomes a possible response to a world lacking certainty and stable meaning.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
What is meant by the Victorian crisis of faith?
Explanation:
• The Victorian crisis of faith refers to uncertainty produced by conflicts between inherited religious belief and modern intellectual developments.
• Geology, evolutionary thought and biblical criticism challenged traditional understandings of creation and history.
• Victorian writers responded through doubt, defence of faith, spiritual struggle or alternative ethical systems.
• Arnold and Hopkins represent significantly different poetic responses to this crisis.
• Geology, evolutionary thought and biblical criticism challenged traditional understandings of creation and history.
• Victorian writers responded through doubt, defence of faith, spiritual struggle or alternative ethical systems.
• Arnold and Hopkins represent significantly different poetic responses to this crisis.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which major narrative poem was written by Christina Rossetti?
Explanation:
• Christina Rossetti wrote Goblin Market, first published in Goblin Market and Other Poems in 1862.
• The poem tells the story of the sisters Laura and Lizzie and their encounter with the goblin merchants.
• It combines fairy-tale narrative, sensuous imagery, temptation, sacrifice and redemption.
• The Blessed Damozel is by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, while the other poems are by Arnold and Hopkins.
• The poem tells the story of the sisters Laura and Lizzie and their encounter with the goblin merchants.
• It combines fairy-tale narrative, sensuous imagery, temptation, sacrifice and redemption.
• The Blessed Damozel is by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, while the other poems are by Arnold and Hopkins.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which theme is especially important in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market?
Explanation:
• Goblin Market presents Lizzie's courageous effort to rescue Laura from the consequences of temptation.
• Lizzie withstands the goblins' violence and offers herself as a means of her sister's recovery.
• The poem therefore places sisterly loyalty and self-sacrifice at the centre of redemption.
• It also permits interpretations involving sexuality, commerce, addiction and Christian symbolism.
• Lizzie withstands the goblins' violence and offers herself as a means of her sister's recovery.
• The poem therefore places sisterly loyalty and self-sacrifice at the centre of redemption.
• It also permits interpretations involving sexuality, commerce, addiction and Christian symbolism.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which poet-painter was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
Explanation:
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.
• He worked as both a poet and a visual artist, often connecting literary and pictorial subjects.
• His poetry is characterized by medievalism, symbolism, sensuous imagery and themes of love and death.
• Matthew Arnold and Hopkins were major Victorian poets but were not members of the Brotherhood.
• He worked as both a poet and a visual artist, often connecting literary and pictorial subjects.
• His poetry is characterized by medievalism, symbolism, sensuous imagery and themes of love and death.
• Matthew Arnold and Hopkins were major Victorian poets but were not members of the Brotherhood.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Where is the central female figure positioned at the beginning of The Blessed Damozel?
Explanation:
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Blessed Damozel leans from the gold bar of Heaven.
• From Heaven, she longs for reunion with her earthly lover.
• The poem combines medieval religious imagery with intense physical and emotional desire.
• The separation between heavenly vision and earthly longing creates the poem's central tension.
• From Heaven, she longs for reunion with her earthly lover.
• The poem combines medieval religious imagery with intense physical and emotional desire.
• The separation between heavenly vision and earthly longing creates the poem's central tension.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Why did the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood adopt the term Pre-Raphaelite?
Explanation:
• The Pre-Raphaelites admired qualities they associated with Italian art before Raphael and his academic successors.
• They valued vivid detail, brilliant colour, sincerity and close observation of nature.
• Their work frequently drew upon medieval, biblical and literary subjects.
• The movement encouraged interaction among poetry, painting and decorative art.
• They valued vivid detail, brilliant colour, sincerity and close observation of nature.
• Their work frequently drew upon medieval, biblical and literary subjects.
• The movement encouraged interaction among poetry, painting and decorative art.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which description best defines symbolism in Pre-Raphaelite poetry?
Explanation:
• Symbolism allows objects, colours, flowers and settings to carry emotional, spiritual or psychological meanings.
• Pre-Raphaelite poetry frequently uses richly visual details that operate on both literal and symbolic levels.
• Rossetti's images of enclosed spaces, mirrors, flowers and thresholds often suggest desire, memory or death.
• Symbolism therefore expands rather than eliminates visual representation.
• Pre-Raphaelite poetry frequently uses richly visual details that operate on both literal and symbolic levels.
• Rossetti's images of enclosed spaces, mirrors, flowers and thresholds often suggest desire, memory or death.
• Symbolism therefore expands rather than eliminates visual representation.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
What is sprung rhythm in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins?
Explanation:
• Sprung rhythm is organized primarily by the number of stressed syllables in a line.
• Each foot begins with a stressed syllable and may contain a variable number of unstressed syllables.
• Hopkins developed the technique to capture energetic speech, natural movement and emotional intensity.
• It differs from regular iambic metre, which more consistently alternates unstressed and stressed syllables.
• Each foot begins with a stressed syllable and may contain a variable number of unstressed syllables.
• Hopkins developed the technique to capture energetic speech, natural movement and emotional intensity.
• It differs from regular iambic metre, which more consistently alternates unstressed and stressed syllables.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
What does Hopkins mean by inscape?
Explanation:
• Inscape refers to the unique form, pattern or identity that makes a thing precisely what it is.
• Hopkins believed that every created object possesses its own distinctive individuality.
• His poetry seeks to perceive and express this uniqueness through concentrated sound and imagery.
• The concept is closely related to his religious vision of creation.
• Hopkins believed that every created object possesses its own distinctive individuality.
• His poetry seeks to perceive and express this uniqueness through concentrated sound and imagery.
• The concept is closely related to his religious vision of creation.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
What does Hopkins's term instress refer to?
Explanation:
• Instress is the active force through which the observer perceives and experiences a thing's inscape.
• It may also suggest the energy that sustains the distinctive identity of a created object.
• Inscape concerns unique form, while instress concerns dynamic apprehension or realization.
• Both terms are fundamental to Hopkins's poetic and religious understanding of nature.
• It may also suggest the energy that sustains the distinctive identity of a created object.
• Inscape concerns unique form, while instress concerns dynamic apprehension or realization.
• Both terms are fundamental to Hopkins's poetic and religious understanding of nature.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
To whom is Hopkins's The Windhover explicitly dedicated?
Explanation:
• The Windhover carries the dedication To Christ our Lord.
• The poem describes a kestrel mastering the morning air through controlled and powerful movement.
• The bird's beauty becomes connected with sacrifice, spiritual mastery and divine glory.
• Hopkins's admiration of nature develops into a distinctly Christian meditation.
• The poem describes a kestrel mastering the morning air through controlled and powerful movement.
• The bird's beauty becomes connected with sacrifice, spiritual mastery and divine glory.
• Hopkins's admiration of nature develops into a distinctly Christian meditation.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which statement expresses the central idea of Hopkins's God's Grandeur?
Explanation:
• God's Grandeur declares that the world is charged with the grandeur of God.
• Human trade, labour and industrial activity have damaged the natural environment and dulled perception.
• Nevertheless, nature retains freshness because divine creative power continues to sustain it.
• The poem combines ecological concern with confidence in spiritual renewal.
• Human trade, labour and industrial activity have damaged the natural environment and dulled perception.
• Nevertheless, nature retains freshness because divine creative power continues to sustain it.
• The poem combines ecological concern with confidence in spiritual renewal.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Consider the following statements about Dover Beach.
Statement I: The poem uses the retreating Sea of Faith as a metaphor for declining religious certainty.
Statement II: The poem ends by presenting the modern world as a harmonious and dependable paradise.
Statement I: The poem uses the retreating Sea of Faith as a metaphor for declining religious certainty.
Statement II: The poem ends by presenting the modern world as a harmonious and dependable paradise.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because the withdrawing sea represents the loss of a once-encompassing religious faith.
• Statement II is incorrect because the final landscape is compared to a dark plain filled with confused conflict.
• The poem questions the world's apparent beauty by exposing uncertainty beneath it.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because the final landscape is compared to a dark plain filled with confused conflict.
• The poem questions the world's apparent beauty by exposing uncertainty beneath it.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which of the following statements about Pre-Raphaelite poetry are correct?
1. It frequently draws upon medieval subjects and settings.
2. It often emphasizes visual detail and symbolic imagery.
3. It reflects interaction between poetry and painting.
4. It consistently rejects sensuous description as morally unacceptable.
1. It frequently draws upon medieval subjects and settings.
2. It often emphasizes visual detail and symbolic imagery.
3. It reflects interaction between poetry and painting.
4. It consistently rejects sensuous description as morally unacceptable.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because medieval legends, romance and art strongly influenced the Pre-Raphaelites.
• Statement 2 is correct because their poetry is known for precise visual detail and symbolic richness.
• Statement 3 is correct because several members worked across literary and visual media.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because sensuous colour, texture and physical detail are major Pre-Raphaelite qualities.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because their poetry is known for precise visual detail and symbolic richness.
• Statement 3 is correct because several members worked across literary and visual media.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because sensuous colour, texture and physical detail are major Pre-Raphaelite qualities.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Assertion: Hopkins's sprung rhythm creates an impression of energetic and irregular movement.
Reason: It counts stressed syllables while allowing the number of intervening unstressed syllables to vary.
Reason: It counts stressed syllables while allowing the number of intervening unstressed syllables to vary.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because sprung rhythm can sound forceful, compressed and dynamically irregular.
• The Reason is correct because its feet are organized around stresses rather than a fixed alternation of syllables.
• Variation in unstressed syllables allows the rhythm to imitate speech and natural motion.
• The Reason therefore correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because its feet are organized around stresses rather than a fixed alternation of syllables.
• Variation in unstressed syllables allows the rhythm to imitate speech and natural motion.
• The Reason therefore correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Matthew Arnold
2. Christina Rossetti
3. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
4. Gerard Manley Hopkins
List II
i. Pied Beauty
ii. Goblin Market
iii. Dover Beach
iv. The Blessed Damozel
List I
1. Matthew Arnold
2. Christina Rossetti
3. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
4. Gerard Manley Hopkins
List II
i. Pied Beauty
ii. Goblin Market
iii. Dover Beach
iv. The Blessed Damozel
Explanation:
• Matthew Arnold matches iii because he wrote Dover Beach.
• Christina Rossetti matches ii because she wrote Goblin Market.
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti matches iv because he wrote The Blessed Damozel.
• Gerard Manley Hopkins matches i because he wrote Pied Beauty.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-iii, 2-ii, 3-iv, 4-i.
• Christina Rossetti matches ii because she wrote Goblin Market.
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti matches iv because he wrote The Blessed Damozel.
• Gerard Manley Hopkins matches i because he wrote Pied Beauty.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-iii, 2-ii, 3-iv, 4-i.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which sequence gives the correct chronological order?
1. Foundation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
2. Publication of Goblin Market and Other Poems
3. Publication of Dover Beach in New Poems
4. Publication of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The House of Life
1. Foundation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
2. Publication of Goblin Market and Other Poems
3. Publication of Dover Beach in New Poems
4. Publication of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The House of Life
Explanation:
• The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848.
• Goblin Market and Other Poems was published in 1862.
• Dover Beach appeared in Arnold's New Poems in 1867.
• The completed form of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's sonnet sequence The House of Life appeared in 1881.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• Goblin Market and Other Poems was published in 1862.
• Dover Beach appeared in Arnold's New Poems in 1867.
• The completed form of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's sonnet sequence The House of Life appeared in 1881.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
Explanation:
• Instress is not a fixed rhyme scheme.
• It refers to the force through which a thing's unique inscape is sustained or apprehended.
• Sprung rhythm is organized around stresses, while inscape means distinctive inner form.
• The Blessed Damozel presents a woman in Heaven longing for reunion with her earthly lover.
• Therefore, the fourth pair is incorrectly matched.
• It refers to the force through which a thing's unique inscape is sustained or apprehended.
• Sprung rhythm is organized around stresses, while inscape means distinctive inner form.
• The Blessed Damozel presents a woman in Heaven longing for reunion with her earthly lover.
• Therefore, the fourth pair is incorrectly matched.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which comparison between Matthew Arnold and Gerard Manley Hopkins is most accurate?
Explanation:
• Arnold's Dover Beach presents the decline of shared faith as a source of isolation and uncertainty.
• Hopkins often discovers divine energy and individuality within birds, landscapes and changing natural forms.
• Hopkins also experiences spiritual darkness, but his poetry remains rooted in Christian belief.
• Their contrasting responses reveal the diversity of Victorian religious poetry.
• Hopkins often discovers divine energy and individuality within birds, landscapes and changing natural forms.
• Hopkins also experiences spiritual darkness, but his poetry remains rooted in Christian belief.
• Their contrasting responses reveal the diversity of Victorian religious poetry.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which statement best describes the religious struggle expressed in Hopkins's later poems often called the terrible sonnets?
Explanation:
• Hopkins's later sonnets frequently express abandonment, despair and intense spiritual isolation.
• The speakers struggle to perceive divine comfort despite continuing religious commitment.
• Their compressed syntax and violent rhythms enact psychological and spiritual pressure.
• These poems complicate the confident sacramental vision found in works such as God's Grandeur.
• The speakers struggle to perceive divine comfort despite continuing religious commitment.
• Their compressed syntax and violent rhythms enact psychological and spiritual pressure.
• These poems complicate the confident sacramental vision found in works such as God's Grandeur.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which of the following statements about Gerard Manley Hopkins are correct?
1. He became a Jesuit priest.
2. He developed the terms inscape and instress.
3. Sprung rhythm requires a fixed number of unstressed syllables in every foot.
4. His nature poetry often perceives divine individuality in created things.
1. He became a Jesuit priest.
2. He developed the terms inscape and instress.
3. Sprung rhythm requires a fixed number of unstressed syllables in every foot.
4. His nature poetry often perceives divine individuality in created things.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Hopkins entered the Society of Jesus and became a Jesuit priest.
• Statement 2 is correct because inscape and instress are central concepts in his thought.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because sprung rhythm allows variation in the number of unstressed syllables.
• Statement 4 is correct because Hopkins perceives created things as expressing unique forms of divine glory.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because inscape and instress are central concepts in his thought.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because sprung rhythm allows variation in the number of unstressed syllables.
• Statement 4 is correct because Hopkins perceives created things as expressing unique forms of divine glory.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 4 only.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated statement best describes Arnold, the Pre-Raphaelites and Hopkins within Victorian poetry?
Explanation:
• Arnold expresses the uncertainty produced by the weakening of traditional religious confidence.
• The Pre-Raphaelites combine medievalism, visual precision, sensuous beauty and symbolism.
• Christina Rossetti adds devotional, social and gendered dimensions to Pre-Raphaelite poetry.
• Hopkins develops sprung rhythm, inscape and instress to express the divine energy of creation and the pain of spiritual struggle.
• Together, these poets reveal the formal and intellectual diversity of Victorian poetry.
• The Pre-Raphaelites combine medievalism, visual precision, sensuous beauty and symbolism.
• Christina Rossetti adds devotional, social and gendered dimensions to Pre-Raphaelite poetry.
• Hopkins develops sprung rhythm, inscape and instress to express the divine energy of creation and the pain of spiritual struggle.
• Together, these poets reveal the formal and intellectual diversity of Victorian poetry.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Matthew Arnold సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. The declining influence of religious certainty సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Calm landscape, retreat of faith and appeal for human fidelity సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Anxiety caused by tensions among religious belief, science and modern thought సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Goblin Market సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Redemption through sisterly love and sacrifice సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Dante Gabriel Rossetti సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. At the gold bar of Heaven సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Its members admired the detailed sincerity of art before Raphael's later influence సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. The use of concrete images to suggest meanings beyond their literal reference సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. A rhythm based chiefly on counted stresses with variable unstressed syllables సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. The distinctive inner design or individuality of a thing సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. The force by which the mind apprehends and holds a thing's inscape సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Christ our Lord సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. The world remains charged with divine glory despite human damage సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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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-iii, 2-ii, 3-iv, 4-i సమాధానం: B.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: C. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: C.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: D. Instress — fixed external rhyme scheme సమాధానం: D.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. Arnold often registers the retreat of religious certainty, while Hopkins seeks divine presence through intense attention to creation సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: B. They dramatize spiritual desolation, self-division and the difficulty of reaching God సమాధానం: B.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: D. They explore faith, doubt, beauty, medievalism and nature through contrasting symbolic and formal strategies సమాధానం: D.
