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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which cultural movement is most closely associated with W.B. Yeats's effort to create a distinct modern Irish literature?
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Explanation:
• Yeats was a central figure in the Irish Literary Revival, also called the Celtic Revival.
• The movement sought to renew Irish literature through folklore, mythology, history and national cultural identity.
• Yeats transformed inherited Irish materials through symbolism and modern poetic technique.
• The other movements belong to different religious, social or national contexts.
• The movement sought to renew Irish literature through folklore, mythology, history and national cultural identity.
• Yeats transformed inherited Irish materials through symbolism and modern poetic technique.
• The other movements belong to different religious, social or national contexts.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
In Yeats's symbolic system, what does a gyre most commonly represent?
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Explanation:
• A gyre is a spiral or cone-like figure used by Yeats to represent cyclical historical movement.
• Interacting gyres suggest that one civilization expands while another contracts and prepares to replace it.
• The image is central to Yeats's philosophy of history and appears powerfully in The Second Coming.
• It is a symbolic model rather than a poetic form or a rejection of politics.
• Interacting gyres suggest that one civilization expands while another contracts and prepares to replace it.
• The image is central to Yeats's philosophy of history and appears powerfully in The Second Coming.
• It is a symbolic model rather than a poetic form or a rejection of politics.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which image in The Second Coming most directly signals the collapse of an established order?
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Explanation:
• The separation of the falcon from the falconer suggests that authority can no longer control the forces it has released.
• The widening gyre reinforces the sense of political, spiritual and cultural disintegration.
• Yeats presents the collapse as part of a larger historical cycle rather than as a temporary disturbance.
• The other images belong to different Yeatsian poems or symbolic contexts.
• The widening gyre reinforces the sense of political, spiritual and cultural disintegration.
• Yeats presents the collapse as part of a larger historical cycle rather than as a temporary disturbance.
• The other images belong to different Yeatsian poems or symbolic contexts.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
In The Second Coming, the rough beast moving toward Bethlehem chiefly symbolizes what?
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Explanation:
• The rough beast represents an emerging historical order that is violent, obscure and radically different from the Christian era.
• Its movement toward Bethlehem reverses the imagery of Christ's birth.
• The poem does not offer a confident prophecy of peace or restoration.
• The symbol embodies Yeats's cyclical view that one age ends as another begins.
• Its movement toward Bethlehem reverses the imagery of Christ's birth.
• The poem does not offer a confident prophecy of peace or restoration.
• The symbol embodies Yeats's cyclical view that one age ends as another begins.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Why does the ageing speaker of Sailing to Byzantium desire to reach Byzantium?
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Explanation:
• The speaker seeks escape from bodily ageing and the cycle of biological generation and decay.
• Byzantium represents a realm where art, intellect and spiritual form may transcend mortality.
• The poem contrasts the sensual country of the young with the disciplined world of sacred art.
• Byzantium is therefore symbolic rather than merely geographical.
• Byzantium represents a realm where art, intellect and spiritual form may transcend mortality.
• The poem contrasts the sensual country of the young with the disciplined world of sacred art.
• Byzantium is therefore symbolic rather than merely geographical.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
What does the golden bird in Sailing to Byzantium most clearly represent?
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Explanation:
• The golden bird is an artificial work of art imagined as free from natural ageing and death.
• It represents the speaker's desire to enter the artifice of eternity after leaving the mortal body.
• The bird would sing of past, present and future to the lords and ladies of Byzantium.
• The image links artistic craftsmanship with permanence and transformed consciousness.
• It represents the speaker's desire to enter the artifice of eternity after leaving the mortal body.
• The bird would sing of past, present and future to the lords and ladies of Byzantium.
• The image links artistic craftsmanship with permanence and transformed consciousness.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which Yeats poem responds directly to the Easter Rising of 1916 and reflects on the transformation of political rebels?
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Explanation:
• Easter 1916 responds to the Irish nationalist uprising against British rule.
• Yeats reflects on individuals he had known and on their transformation through sacrifice and political action.
• The poem combines admiration with uncertainty about fanaticism, necessity and historical consequence.
• Its treatment of Irish identity is therefore complex rather than simply celebratory.
• Yeats reflects on individuals he had known and on their transformation through sacrifice and political action.
• The poem combines admiration with uncertainty about fanaticism, necessity and historical consequence.
• Its treatment of Irish identity is therefore complex rather than simply celebratory.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which description best fits The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
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Explanation:
• Prufrock is structured as a dramatic and interior monologue shaped by hesitation, memory and imagined social encounters.
• The poem fragments time, place and syntax to represent the speaker's divided consciousness.
• Its urban settings intensify isolation and self-consciousness.
• The title's language of love is ironic because the speaker repeatedly fails to act or communicate.
• The poem fragments time, place and syntax to represent the speaker's divided consciousness.
• Its urban settings intensify isolation and self-consciousness.
• The title's language of love is ironic because the speaker repeatedly fails to act or communicate.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which condition most clearly defines Prufrock's psychological state?
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Explanation:
• Prufrock is unable to convert thought and desire into decisive action.
• He imagines how others observe and judge his body, speech and social inadequacy.
• Repeated questions and revisions reveal paralysis rather than confidence.
• His predicament becomes a major modernist representation of alienated urban consciousness.
• He imagines how others observe and judge his body, speech and social inadequacy.
• Repeated questions and revisions reveal paralysis rather than confidence.
• His predicament becomes a major modernist representation of alienated urban consciousness.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
In which year was T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land first published?
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Explanation:
• The Waste Land was first published in 1922, a landmark year in literary modernism.
• It appeared in periodicals before being issued in book form.
• The poem's postwar disillusionment, fragmentation and allusive density made it a defining modernist text.
• The year 1922 also saw the publication of other major modernist works.
• It appeared in periodicals before being issued in book form.
• The poem's postwar disillusionment, fragmentation and allusive density made it a defining modernist text.
• The year 1922 also saw the publication of other major modernist works.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which option gives the correct order of the five sections of The Waste Land?
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Explanation:
• The poem begins with The Burial of the Dead, which introduces sterility, memory and cultural dislocation.
• A Game of Chess follows with contrasting scenes of strained relationships and desire.
• The Fire Sermon presents urban and sexual desolation, followed by the brief Death by Water.
• What the Thunder Said concludes the poem through apocalyptic journey, thunder and the possibility of discipline and peace.
• A Game of Chess follows with contrasting scenes of strained relationships and desire.
• The Fire Sermon presents urban and sexual desolation, followed by the brief Death by Water.
• What the Thunder Said concludes the poem through apocalyptic journey, thunder and the possibility of discipline and peace.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which figure is identified in Eliot's notes as an important unifying consciousness in The Waste Land?
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Explanation:
• Eliot identifies Tiresias as an important figure who unites the poem's different experiences.
• As a figure who has lived as both man and woman, Tiresias crosses boundaries of gender and perspective.
• Tiresias observes the mechanical encounter between the typist and the young man.
• The character contributes unity without removing the poem's deliberate fragmentation.
• As a figure who has lived as both man and woman, Tiresias crosses boundaries of gender and perspective.
• Tiresias observes the mechanical encounter between the typist and the young man.
• The character contributes unity without removing the poem's deliberate fragmentation.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Eliot used the phrase mythic method while discussing which modernist work?
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Explanation:
• Eliot discussed the mythic method in his review of James Joyce's Ulysses.
• The method places modern experience within the ordering framework of ancient myth.
• Eliot regarded it as a way of giving form and significance to the apparent chaos of contemporary history.
• The Waste Land similarly juxtaposes modern cultural crisis with inherited myths and rituals.
• The method places modern experience within the ordering framework of ancient myth.
• Eliot regarded it as a way of giving form and significance to the apparent chaos of contemporary history.
• The Waste Land similarly juxtaposes modern cultural crisis with inherited myths and rituals.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
What does fragmentation in The Waste Land primarily involve?
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Explanation:
• The Waste Land shifts rapidly among speakers, locations, historical periods and literary traditions.
• Quotations and allusions appear in several languages and are often placed without explanatory transitions.
• Fragmentation represents cultural dislocation while requiring readers to construct relationships among the pieces.
• The method is therefore both thematic and formal.
• Quotations and allusions appear in several languages and are often placed without explanatory transitions.
• Fragmentation represents cultural dislocation while requiring readers to construct relationships among the pieces.
• The method is therefore both thematic and formal.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
What is the principal function of allusion in The Waste Land?
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Explanation:
• Eliot's allusions connect contemporary urban and spiritual exhaustion with myths, scriptures and earlier literature.
• The inherited texts sometimes offer patterns of order, but they also appear as fragments within a damaged culture.
• Allusion expands the poem's historical range without eliminating uncertainty.
• Readers must recognize that tradition is both a resource and a sign of cultural discontinuity.
• The inherited texts sometimes offer patterns of order, but they also appear as fragments within a damaged culture.
• Allusion expands the poem's historical range without eliminating uncertainty.
• Readers must recognize that tradition is both a resource and a sign of cultural discontinuity.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
In The Waste Land, the phrase Unreal City chiefly evokes what?
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Explanation:
• The Unreal City presents London as ghostly, repetitive and spiritually lifeless.
• Crowds move through the urban environment with little meaningful connection.
• The image combines modern metropolitan observation with allusions to Dante and Baudelaire.
• It is a central representation of modernist urban alienation.
• Crowds move through the urban environment with little meaningful connection.
• The image combines modern metropolitan observation with allusions to Dante and Baudelaire.
• It is a central representation of modernist urban alienation.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
According to Eliot's theory of poetic impersonality, what should the mature poet do?
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Explanation:
• Eliot argues that poetry involves the transformation of emotion rather than the direct display of personality.
• The poet's mind acts as a medium in which feelings and impressions combine into a new artistic whole.
• Impersonality does not mean emotional emptiness; it means disciplined artistic conversion.
• The theory also emphasizes the poet's relation to literary tradition.
• The poet's mind acts as a medium in which feelings and impressions combine into a new artistic whole.
• Impersonality does not mean emotional emptiness; it means disciplined artistic conversion.
• The theory also emphasizes the poet's relation to literary tradition.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Consider the following statements about Yeats's later poetry.
Statement I: Byzantium functions primarily as a realistic destination for ordinary tourism.
Statement II: The Second Coming imagines history as steady linear progress toward permanent harmony.
Statement I: Byzantium functions primarily as a realistic destination for ordinary tourism.
Statement II: The Second Coming imagines history as steady linear progress toward permanent harmony.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is incorrect because Byzantium is a symbolic realm of art, spirit, purification and permanence.
• Statement II is incorrect because The Second Coming presents history as cyclical, violent and marked by the collapse of one order into another.
• Neither poem offers a straightforward realistic or progressive model.
• Therefore, both statements are incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because The Second Coming presents history as cyclical, violent and marked by the collapse of one order into another.
• Neither poem offers a straightforward realistic or progressive model.
• Therefore, both statements are incorrect.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which of the following statements about Yeats's Byzantium poems are correct?
1. Sailing to Byzantium contrasts ageing with artistic permanence.
2. Byzantium contains images of spiritual purification and transformation.
3. Both poems use the city as a symbol of art and transcendence.
4. Neither poem is simply a realistic travel description.
1. Sailing to Byzantium contrasts ageing with artistic permanence.
2. Byzantium contains images of spiritual purification and transformation.
3. Both poems use the city as a symbol of art and transcendence.
4. Neither poem is simply a realistic travel description.
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Sailing to Byzantium opposes the ageing body to timeless artistic form.
• Statement 2 is correct because Byzantium includes images of flames, spirits and processes of purification.
• Statement 3 is correct because both poems make the city a symbol of artistic and spiritual transcendence.
• Statement 4 is correct because their Byzantium is an imaginative construction rather than a travel destination.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because Byzantium includes images of flames, spirits and processes of purification.
• Statement 3 is correct because both poems make the city a symbol of artistic and spiritual transcendence.
• Statement 4 is correct because their Byzantium is an imaginative construction rather than a travel destination.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Assertion: Fragmentation is central to the meaning of The Waste Land.
Reason: The poem is narrated by one stable speaker through a continuous chronological plot.
Reason: The poem is narrated by one stable speaker through a continuous chronological plot.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because broken voices, discontinuous scenes and displaced quotations enact cultural and psychological dislocation.
• The Reason is incorrect because the poem does not use one stable narrator or a continuous chronological plot.
• Its structure depends on abrupt shifts and partial connections.
• Therefore, the Assertion is correct, but the Reason is incorrect.
• The Reason is incorrect because the poem does not use one stable narrator or a continuous chronological plot.
• Its structure depends on abrupt shifts and partial connections.
• Therefore, the Assertion is correct, but the Reason is incorrect.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Sailing to Byzantium
2. The Second Coming
3. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
4. The Waste Land
List II
i. Indecision and urban self-consciousness
ii. Cyclical history and the rough beast
iii. Artifice, ageing and transcendence
iv. Fragmented postwar cultural crisis
List I
1. Sailing to Byzantium
2. The Second Coming
3. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
4. The Waste Land
List II
i. Indecision and urban self-consciousness
ii. Cyclical history and the rough beast
iii. Artifice, ageing and transcendence
iv. Fragmented postwar cultural crisis
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Sailing to Byzantium matches iii because it explores ageing, artistic permanence and transcendence.
• The Second Coming matches ii because it uses gyres and the rough beast to represent historical crisis.
• Prufrock matches i because its speaker is indecisive, self-conscious and alienated in the modern city.
• The Waste Land matches iv because it represents postwar cultural crisis through fragmentation.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-iii, 2-ii, 3-i, 4-iv.
• The Second Coming matches ii because it uses gyres and the rough beast to represent historical crisis.
• Prufrock matches i because its speaker is indecisive, self-conscious and alienated in the modern city.
• The Waste Land matches iv because it represents postwar cultural crisis through fragmentation.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-iii, 2-ii, 3-i, 4-iv.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which sequence gives the correct chronological order of first publication?
1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
2. The Second Coming
3. The Waste Land
4. Sailing to Byzantium
1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
2. The Second Coming
3. The Waste Land
4. Sailing to Byzantium
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Explanation:
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was first published in 1915.
• The Second Coming was first published in 1920.
• The Waste Land appeared in 1922.
• Sailing to Byzantium was published in The Tower in 1928.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• The Second Coming was first published in 1920.
• The Waste Land appeared in 1922.
• Sailing to Byzantium was published in The Tower in 1928.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• Byzantium is not presented as a realistic tourist destination.
• In Yeats's poetry, it symbolizes artistic permanence, spiritual transformation and freedom from biological decay.
• The gyre represents cyclical history, Tiresias helps connect experiences in The Waste Land and Prufrock embodies urban paralysis.
• Therefore, the third pair is incorrectly matched.
• In Yeats's poetry, it symbolizes artistic permanence, spiritual transformation and freedom from biological decay.
• The gyre represents cyclical history, Tiresias helps connect experiences in The Waste Land and Prufrock embodies urban paralysis.
• Therefore, the third pair is incorrectly matched.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which comparison between Yeats and Eliot is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• Yeats develops recurring symbols such as gyres, towers, swans and Byzantium to interpret personal and historical change.
• Eliot juxtaposes voices, myths and quotations to represent the discontinuity of modern culture.
• Both poets depend heavily on tradition, though they organize it differently.
• Option D accurately identifies their contrasting modernist strategies.
• Eliot juxtaposes voices, myths and quotations to represent the discontinuity of modern culture.
• Both poets depend heavily on tradition, though they organize it differently.
• Option D accurately identifies their contrasting modernist strategies.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated statement best describes the modernism of Yeats and Eliot?
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Explanation:
• Yeats uses Irish identity, symbolism and cyclical history to interpret political and spiritual transformation.
• Eliot uses urban imagery, fragmentation, allusion and mythic pattern to represent modern cultural dislocation.
• Both poets reshape inherited traditions instead of merely abandoning them.
• Their poetry confronts uncertainty while searching for forms capable of imposing or imagining order.
• Eliot uses urban imagery, fragmentation, allusion and mythic pattern to represent modern cultural dislocation.
• Both poets reshape inherited traditions instead of merely abandoning them.
• Their poetry confronts uncertainty while searching for forms capable of imposing or imagining order.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. The Irish Literary Revival సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: C. A widening or narrowing cycle of historical development సమాధానం: C.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: A. The falcon can no longer hear the falconer సమాధానం: A.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. The birth of a terrifying new historical epoch సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. To enter a realm of spiritual and artistic permanence సమాధానం: B.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: A. The artifice of eternity సమాధానం: A.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Easter 1916 సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. A fragmented dramatic monologue of an anxious urban speaker సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. Indecision, self-consciousness and fear of judgement సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: A. 1922 సమాధానం: A.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, What the Thunder Said సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Tiresias సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. James Joyce's Ulysses సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: C. The juxtaposition of broken scenes, voices, languages and textual traditions సమాధానం: C.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: B. To connect modern crisis with a dense network of inherited cultural memories సమాధానం: B.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Mechanized, repetitive and alienated metropolitan life సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. Transform personal emotion into an impersonal artistic structure సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: D. 1, 2, 3 and 4 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: C. Assertion is correct, but Reason is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: B. 1-iii, 2-ii, 3-i, 4-iv సమాధానం: B.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. Byzantium — realistic guide to ordinary tourism సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. Yeats builds symbolic historical systems, while Eliot uses fragmentation and allusion to represent cultural breakdown సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. They transform myth, symbolism and inherited tradition to confront historical crisis, spiritual uncertainty and modern alienation సమాధానం: A.