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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
The earliest medieval European dramatic pieces that developed within Christian worship are generally called
Explanation:
• Liturgical drama developed within the worship and ceremonial practices of the medieval Church.
• Early performances expanded sung portions of the service through dialogue, gesture and impersonation.
• These pieces were initially performed in Latin by members of the clergy.
• Humanist interludes, court masques and Senecan tragedies belong to later or different theatrical traditions.
• Early performances expanded sung portions of the service through dialogue, gesture and impersonation.
• These pieces were initially performed in Latin by members of the clergy.
• Humanist interludes, court masques and Senecan tragedies belong to later or different theatrical traditions.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Which liturgical trope is frequently associated with the early development of medieval Christian drama?
Explanation:
• The Quem Quaeritis trope dramatises the question 'Whom do you seek?' at Christ's tomb.
• It was associated with the Easter liturgy and developed into a brief dialogue between the angel and the visiting women.
• Its use of role, speech and action made it an important stage in the growth of liturgical drama.
• The other options are important Latin hymns or sequences but are not the trope conventionally linked with this development.
• It was associated with the Easter liturgy and developed into a brief dialogue between the angel and the visiting women.
• Its use of role, speech and action made it an important stage in the growth of liturgical drama.
• The other options are important Latin hymns or sequences but are not the trope conventionally linked with this development.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
A medieval play that dramatises episodes from the Bible, such as the Creation, Noah's Flood or the Crucifixion, is most commonly classified as a
Explanation:
• Mystery plays dramatise biblical history from Creation to the Last Judgement.
• They were commonly arranged into civic cycles and performed in the vernacular.
• Morality plays use allegorical characters to represent the spiritual life of an individual.
• Miracle plays are generally associated with saints' lives or miraculous interventions, although medieval terminology is not always used consistently.
• They were commonly arranged into civic cycles and performed in the vernacular.
• Morality plays use allegorical characters to represent the spiritual life of an individual.
• Miracle plays are generally associated with saints' lives or miraculous interventions, although medieval terminology is not always used consistently.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which description most accurately defines a medieval miracle play?
Explanation:
• Miracle plays generally present the lives, martyrdoms or supernatural interventions of saints.
• They are distinguished in modern literary history from mystery plays based primarily on biblical narratives.
• The distinction was not always rigid in medieval usage, so the terms may occasionally overlap.
• Classical mythology, court entertainment and urban secular comedy do not define the form.
• They are distinguished in modern literary history from mystery plays based primarily on biblical narratives.
• The distinction was not always rigid in medieval usage, so the terms may occasionally overlap.
• Classical mythology, court entertainment and urban secular comedy do not define the form.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which feature is central to the morality play?
Explanation:
• Morality plays use personified abstractions such as Good-Deeds, Knowledge, Vice, Mercy or Death.
• Their plots commonly represent the soul's struggle between virtue, temptation, sin and salvation.
• The central figure often stands for humanity in general rather than for one historical person.
• This allegorical structure distinguishes morality plays from biblical cycle drama.
• Their plots commonly represent the soul's struggle between virtue, temptation, sin and salvation.
• The central figure often stands for humanity in general rather than for one historical person.
• This allegorical structure distinguishes morality plays from biblical cycle drama.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
In Everyman, who summons Everyman to undertake the final pilgrimage and give an account of his life?
Explanation:
• Death appears as God's messenger and orders Everyman to begin his final journey.
• Everyman must present a reckoning of his earthly life before God.
• The summons transforms the play into an allegory of preparation for death and judgement.
• Knowledge, Good-Deeds and Confession assist him later, but none initiates the pilgrimage.
• Everyman must present a reckoning of his earthly life before God.
• The summons transforms the play into an allegory of preparation for death and judgement.
• Knowledge, Good-Deeds and Confession assist him later, but none initiates the pilgrimage.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which companion remains capable of accompanying Everyman beyond the grave?
Explanation:
• Good-Deeds ultimately accompanies Everyman into the grave and testifies to the spiritual value of his actions.
• Fellowship, Kindred and Goods abandon him when they learn the true nature of his journey.
• The contrast teaches that worldly relationships and possessions cannot secure salvation.
• The play therefore places lasting value on repentance and virtuous action.
• Fellowship, Kindred and Goods abandon him when they learn the true nature of his journey.
• The contrast teaches that worldly relationships and possessions cannot secure salvation.
• The play therefore places lasting value on repentance and virtuous action.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
The central dramatic figure of Everyman is best understood as
Explanation:
• Everyman is an allegorical figure representing every human being facing death and judgement.
• His name signals universality rather than individual historical identity.
• Through his journey, the play teaches a general Christian lesson about repentance, good works and salvation.
• He is not the Vice, a prophet or a specifically documented merchant.
• His name signals universality rather than individual historical identity.
• Through his journey, the play teaches a general Christian lesson about repentance, good works and salvation.
• He is not the Vice, a prophet or a specifically documented merchant.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
The Second Shepherd's Play belongs to which major English cycle of biblical drama?
Explanation:
• The Second Shepherd's Play is part of the Wakefield Cycle, also called the Towneley Cycle.
• It combines a comic sheep-stealing episode with the Nativity narrative.
• The play is commonly attributed to the anonymous dramatist known as the Wakefield Master.
• The Chester, York and N-Town collections are other important bodies of English cycle drama.
• It combines a comic sheep-stealing episode with the Nativity narrative.
• The play is commonly attributed to the anonymous dramatist known as the Wakefield Master.
• The Chester, York and N-Town collections are other important bodies of English cycle drama.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Who is the comic sheep-stealer in The Second Shepherd's Play?
Explanation:
• Mak steals a sheep from the shepherds and carries it home.
• He and his wife Gill disguise the animal as a newborn child in a cradle.
• The deception produces the play's most famous comic episode.
• Coll, Gib and Daw are the shepherds whom Mak attempts to deceive.
• He and his wife Gill disguise the animal as a newborn child in a cradle.
• The deception produces the play's most famous comic episode.
• Coll, Gib and Daw are the shepherds whom Mak attempts to deceive.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
What is the principal structural effect of the sheep-in-the-cradle episode in The Second Shepherd's Play?
Explanation:
• The false baby formed by the stolen sheep creates a comic parody of a birth scene.
• This episode anticipates the later sacred encounter with the Christ child.
• The movement from grotesque deception to genuine Nativity produces both contrast and thematic preparation.
• The play thus integrates earthy humour with devotional meaning rather than eliminating the biblical narrative.
• This episode anticipates the later sacred encounter with the Christ child.
• The movement from grotesque deception to genuine Nativity produces both contrast and thematic preparation.
• The play thus integrates earthy humour with devotional meaning rather than eliminating the biblical narrative.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which term refers to a group of mystery plays presenting sacred history in an ordered sequence from Creation to Judgement?
Explanation:
• A cycle play is a sequence of individual dramas covering major events in biblical history.
• English examples include the York, Chester, Wakefield and N-Town cycles.
• The plays were often distributed among craft guilds and presented during civic festivals.
• An interlude is usually shorter and more self-contained, while a fabliau is a comic narrative form.
• English examples include the York, Chester, Wakefield and N-Town cycles.
• The plays were often distributed among craft guilds and presented during civic festivals.
• An interlude is usually shorter and more self-contained, while a fabliau is a comic narrative form.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which statement best explains the role of craft guilds in many medieval English dramatic cycles?
Explanation:
• Craft guilds commonly assumed responsibility for staging particular episodes in civic religious cycles.
• They supplied performers, costumes, properties, labour and financial support.
• In some cases, the assigned episode had a symbolic connection with the guild's trade.
• Guild participation helped transfer drama from church interiors into public civic space without abolishing its religious purpose.
• They supplied performers, costumes, properties, labour and financial support.
• In some cases, the assigned episode had a symbolic connection with the guild's trade.
• Guild participation helped transfer drama from church interiors into public civic space without abolishing its religious purpose.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
A pageant wagon in medieval English drama was primarily
Explanation:
• A pageant wagon was a movable stage associated especially with processional cycle performance.
• A dramatic episode could be presented at successive stations before different groups of spectators.
• The wagon carried scenery, properties and performers required for the pageant.
• Evidence for staging practices varies by town, so not every medieval cycle should be assumed to have used an identical system.
• A dramatic episode could be presented at successive stations before different groups of spectators.
• The wagon carried scenery, properties and performers required for the pageant.
• Evidence for staging practices varies by town, so not every medieval cycle should be assumed to have used an identical system.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
Explanation:
• The pair Quem Quaeritis — Roman secular comedy is incorrect.
• Quem Quaeritis is an Easter liturgical trope associated with the emergence of medieval Christian drama.
• Everyman is a morality play, and The Second Shepherd's Play belongs to the Wakefield Cycle.
• The York Cycle consists of biblical pageants performed in a civic and religious context.
• Quem Quaeritis is an Easter liturgical trope associated with the emergence of medieval Christian drama.
• Everyman is a morality play, and The Second Shepherd's Play belongs to the Wakefield Cycle.
• The York Cycle consists of biblical pageants performed in a civic and religious context.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Consider the following statements about medieval mystery plays.
Statement I: They frequently presented biblical narratives in the vernacular.
Statement II: They were always performed exclusively by ordained clergy inside churches.
Choose the correct answer.
Statement I: They frequently presented biblical narratives in the vernacular.
Statement II: They were always performed exclusively by ordained clergy inside churches.
Choose the correct answer.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because civic mystery plays commonly used vernacular language to make biblical history accessible to broad audiences.
• Statement II is incorrect because many later performances involved lay guild members and occurred in streets or other public spaces.
• Medieval drama developed from clerical and liturgical beginnings into civic forms of production.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because many later performances involved lay guild members and occurred in streets or other public spaces.
• Medieval drama developed from clerical and liturgical beginnings into civic forms of production.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which of the following statements about Everyman are correct?
1. Fellowship refuses to accompany Everyman on his final journey.
2. Goods explains that attachment to wealth may damage the soul.
3. Good-Deeds is initially weak because Everyman's good works are insufficient.
4. Knowledge remains with Everyman inside the grave.
1. Fellowship refuses to accompany Everyman on his final journey.
2. Goods explains that attachment to wealth may damage the soul.
3. Good-Deeds is initially weak because Everyman's good works are insufficient.
4. Knowledge remains with Everyman inside the grave.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Fellowship promises loyalty but withdraws when he learns that the journey leads to death.
• Statement 2 is correct because Goods warns that worldly wealth can spiritually deceive its possessor.
• Statement 3 is correct because Good-Deeds is initially unable to rise under the burden of Everyman's sins.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because Knowledge guides Everyman toward repentance but does not enter the grave with him.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because Goods warns that worldly wealth can spiritually deceive its possessor.
• Statement 3 is correct because Good-Deeds is initially unable to rise under the burden of Everyman's sins.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because Knowledge guides Everyman toward repentance but does not enter the grave with him.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Assertion: The Second Shepherd's Play can combine broad comedy with serious religious instruction without becoming structurally incoherent.
Reason: Its comic story of a counterfeit baby prepares an ironic contrast with the genuine Nativity scene.
Choose the correct answer.
Reason: Its comic story of a counterfeit baby prepares an ironic contrast with the genuine Nativity scene.
Choose the correct answer.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because the play successfully joins social comedy, deception and devotional celebration.
• The Reason is correct because the disguised sheep creates a false birth image that anticipates the true Christ child.
• This parallel provides a structural and thematic bridge between the comic and sacred sections.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because the disguised sheep creates a false birth image that anticipates the true Christ child.
• This parallel provides a structural and thematic bridge between the comic and sacred sections.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Mystery play
2. Miracle play
3. Morality play
4. Liturgical drama
List II
P. Allegorical struggle of virtues and vices
Q. Saint's life or miraculous intervention
R. Dramatised biblical narrative
S. Performance emerging from church ritual
Choose the correct code.
List I
1. Mystery play
2. Miracle play
3. Morality play
4. Liturgical drama
List II
P. Allegorical struggle of virtues and vices
Q. Saint's life or miraculous intervention
R. Dramatised biblical narrative
S. Performance emerging from church ritual
Choose the correct code.
Explanation:
• Mystery play matches R because it dramatises episodes from biblical history.
• Miracle play matches Q because it concerns saints or miraculous events.
• Morality play matches P because it allegorises the conflict among virtues, vices and the human soul.
• Liturgical drama matches S because it emerged from ceremonial performance within Christian worship.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-R, 2-Q, 3-P, 4-S.
• Miracle play matches Q because it concerns saints or miraculous events.
• Morality play matches P because it allegorises the conflict among virtues, vices and the human soul.
• Liturgical drama matches S because it emerged from ceremonial performance within Christian worship.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-R, 2-Q, 3-P, 4-S.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Arrange the following developments in the most appropriate historical sequence.
1. Civic guild production of vernacular cycle plays
2. Liturgical dialogue within church worship
3. Greater use of secular settings, comic episodes and professional performance
4. Expansion of sacred drama beyond the church building
1. Civic guild production of vernacular cycle plays
2. Liturgical dialogue within church worship
3. Greater use of secular settings, comic episodes and professional performance
4. Expansion of sacred drama beyond the church building
Explanation:
• Liturgical dialogue within worship represents the earliest stage in the conventional account of medieval dramatic development.
• Sacred drama then expanded beyond the church building and increasingly used vernacular language.
• Civic guilds organised and performed cycle plays in public settings.
• Secular locations, comic materials, interludes and professional practices became increasingly important in the transition toward early modern theatre.
• The correct sequence is 2, 4, 1, 3.
• Sacred drama then expanded beyond the church building and increasingly used vernacular language.
• Civic guilds organised and performed cycle plays in public settings.
• Secular locations, comic materials, interludes and professional practices became increasingly important in the transition toward early modern theatre.
• The correct sequence is 2, 4, 1, 3.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which comparison between mystery plays and morality plays is most accurate?
Explanation:
• Mystery plays generally dramatise scriptural history through figures such as Adam, Noah, Christ and the Apostles.
• Morality plays represent spiritual conflict through personified abstractions such as Good-Deeds, Vice or Knowledge.
• Both forms may combine instruction with entertainment and theatrical spectacle.
• Neither the use of pageant wagons nor a simple sacred-secular division defines the distinction.
• Morality plays represent spiritual conflict through personified abstractions such as Good-Deeds, Vice or Knowledge.
• Both forms may combine instruction with entertainment and theatrical spectacle.
• Neither the use of pageant wagons nor a simple sacred-secular division defines the distinction.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A medieval play presents a character named Mankind who is tempted by personifications of vice and guided toward repentance. The play is best classified as a
Explanation:
• A representative human figure tempted by personified vices is a defining feature of morality drama.
• The action allegorises the spiritual condition and ethical choices of humanity.
• Mystery plays focus on biblical narratives, while miracle plays concern saints and supernatural acts.
• A liturgical trope is embedded in or derived directly from church ritual.
• The action allegorises the spiritual condition and ethical choices of humanity.
• Mystery plays focus on biblical narratives, while miracle plays concern saints and supernatural acts.
• A liturgical trope is embedded in or derived directly from church ritual.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which factor most directly contributed to the transition of medieval English drama from predominantly liturgical performance toward civic theatre?
Explanation:
• Performance moved beyond the church and became increasingly organised by towns and craft guilds.
• Lay actors, vernacular language and public staging broadened the social basis of theatre.
• Religious subjects remained central in mystery cycles, so the transition was gradual rather than an immediate abandonment of sacred material.
• These civic practices helped create conditions for more secular and professional theatrical traditions.
• Lay actors, vernacular language and public staging broadened the social basis of theatre.
• Religious subjects remained central in mystery cycles, so the transition was gradual rather than an immediate abandonment of sacred material.
• These civic practices helped create conditions for more secular and professional theatrical traditions.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which statement best explains the dramatic importance of allegorical naming in Everyman?
Explanation:
• Allegorical names immediately identify the moral, social or spiritual forces embodied by the characters.
• Goods represents material wealth, Fellowship represents social companionship and Good-Deeds represents virtuous action.
• Their decisions dramatise which supports fail and which remain valuable at death.
• The naming system turns abstract religious teaching into visible theatrical action.
• Goods represents material wealth, Fellowship represents social companionship and Good-Deeds represents virtuous action.
• Their decisions dramatise which supports fail and which remain valuable at death.
• The naming system turns abstract religious teaching into visible theatrical action.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which combination identifies features that helped medieval religious drama prepare the way for later secular English theatre?
1. Use of vernacular dialogue
2. Development of comic subplots and recognisable social types
3. Experience in public staging, costume and spectacle
4. Increasing participation by lay performers and civic organisations
1. Use of vernacular dialogue
2. Development of comic subplots and recognisable social types
3. Experience in public staging, costume and spectacle
4. Increasing participation by lay performers and civic organisations
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because vernacular dialogue made performance accessible beyond clerical Latin culture.
• Statement 2 is correct because comic episodes and familiar social figures encouraged interest in everyday experience.
• Statement 3 is correct because cycles developed practical traditions of acting, staging, costume and spectacle.
• Statement 4 is correct because guilds and lay performers expanded theatre's civic base.
• Together these features helped prepare the transition toward secular and professional drama.
• Statement 2 is correct because comic episodes and familiar social figures encouraged interest in everyday experience.
• Statement 3 is correct because cycles developed practical traditions of acting, staging, costume and spectacle.
• Statement 4 is correct because guilds and lay performers expanded theatre's civic base.
• Together these features helped prepare the transition toward secular and professional drama.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. liturgical dramas సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. Quem Quaeritis సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: D. mystery play సమాధానం: D.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: C. A play concerning a saint's life or a miraculous act సమాధానం: C.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Personified abstractions representing moral and spiritual forces సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Death సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: D. Good-Deeds సమాధానం: D.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: C. an allegorical representative of all humanity సమాధానం: C.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. Wakefield Cycle సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: A. Mak సమాధానం: A.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. It comically anticipates and contrasts with the sacred image of the Christ child. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Cycle play సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: B. They financed, prepared and performed particular biblical episodes. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. a mobile platform used to stage a play at different locations సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. Quem Quaeritis — Roman secular comedy 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: A. 1, 2 and 3 only సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: D. 1-R, 2-Q, 3-P, 4-S సమాధానం: D.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: A. 2, 4, 1, 3 సమాధానం: A.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: B. Mystery plays usually dramatise scriptural events, whereas morality plays represent moral conflict through personification. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: C. morality play సమాధానం: C.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. The movement of performance into public spaces under lay and guild organisation సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: A. Names such as Goods and Fellowship make abstract values and social attachments visible as characters. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: B. 1, 2, 3 and 4 సమాధానం: B.
