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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Who wrote Tess of the d'Urbervilles?
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Explanation:
• Thomas Hardy wrote Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
• The novel first appeared in a censored serial form and was published in book form in 1891.
• Its subtitle, A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, challenges conventional Victorian judgements about sexuality and morality.
• Hardy places Tess's tragedy within the social and rural world of Wessex.
• The novel first appeared in a censored serial form and was published in book form in 1891.
• Its subtitle, A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, challenges conventional Victorian judgements about sexuality and morality.
• Hardy places Tess's tragedy within the social and rural world of Wessex.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Which subtitle belongs to Tess of the d'Urbervilles?
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Explanation:
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles carries the subtitle A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented.
• Hardy's description of Tess as pure directly resists the sexual double standard applied to her.
• A Study of Provincial Life is the subtitle of Middlemarch.
• A Novel without a Hero belongs to Vanity Fair, while The Modern Prometheus belongs to Frankenstein.
• Hardy's description of Tess as pure directly resists the sexual double standard applied to her.
• A Study of Provincial Life is the subtitle of Middlemarch.
• A Novel without a Hero belongs to Vanity Fair, while The Modern Prometheus belongs to Frankenstein.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
What is the name of the fictional region that provides the setting for many of Hardy's novels?
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Explanation:
• Wessex is Hardy's partly real and partly imagined region in south and southwest England.
• It includes fictionalized versions of Dorset and neighbouring counties.
• Hardy uses recurring places, landscapes and communities to create continuity across his fiction.
• Wessex is not merely a backdrop; it shapes labour, custom, memory and social identity.
• It includes fictionalized versions of Dorset and neighbouring counties.
• Hardy uses recurring places, landscapes and communities to create continuity across his fiction.
• Wessex is not merely a backdrop; it shapes labour, custom, memory and social identity.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Who is the central male protagonist of Jude the Obscure?
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Explanation:
• Jude Fawley is the central protagonist of Jude the Obscure.
• He is a working-class stonemason who dreams of studying at Christminster.
• His intellectual and emotional aspirations are repeatedly blocked by class barriers and social convention.
• The novel uses his frustrated ambitions to examine education, marriage, religion and respectability.
• He is a working-class stonemason who dreams of studying at Christminster.
• His intellectual and emotional aspirations are repeatedly blocked by class barriers and social convention.
• The novel uses his frustrated ambitions to examine education, marriage, religion and respectability.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which city does Jude idealize as a centre of learning in Jude the Obscure?
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Explanation:
• Christminster is Hardy's fictionalized version of Oxford.
• Jude imagines it as a city of intellectual fulfilment and spiritual possibility.
• His exclusion from its university culture reveals the class limitations of Victorian education.
• The gap between the imagined and actual Christminster becomes one of the novel's central ironies.
• Jude imagines it as a city of intellectual fulfilment and spiritual possibility.
• His exclusion from its university culture reveals the class limitations of Victorian education.
• The gap between the imagined and actual Christminster becomes one of the novel's central ironies.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Statement I: Tess works as a milkmaid at Talbothays Dairy. Statement II: She first meets Angel Clare at Flintcomb-Ash Farm. Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Tess works at Talbothays Dairy, where she experiences a period of relative happiness.
• Statement II is incorrect because Tess meets Angel Clare earlier, and their relationship develops at Talbothays.
• Flintcomb-Ash is the harsh farm where Tess later performs exhausting agricultural labour.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because Tess meets Angel Clare earlier, and their relationship develops at Talbothays.
• Flintcomb-Ash is the harsh farm where Tess later performs exhausting agricultural labour.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which character abandons Tess after learning about her past?
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Explanation:
• Angel Clare leaves Tess after she tells him about her past with Alec d'Urberville.
• His response exposes the sexual double standard of Victorian morality.
• Angel expects forgiveness for his own past but cannot initially extend the same compassion to Tess.
• His moral failure is central to Hardy's criticism of idealism and social convention.
• His response exposes the sexual double standard of Victorian morality.
• Angel expects forgiveness for his own past but cannot initially extend the same compassion to Tess.
• His moral failure is central to Hardy's criticism of idealism and social convention.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which character in Jude the Obscure is intellectually unconventional and critical of conventional marriage?
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Explanation:
• Sue Bridehead is intellectually independent and sceptical of conventional marriage.
• She resists institutional religion and questions the legal and emotional assumptions of domestic life.
• Her relationship with Jude places private desire in conflict with public morality.
• Her later submission to religious guilt marks one of the novel's most painful reversals.
• She resists institutional religion and questions the legal and emotional assumptions of domestic life.
• Her relationship with Jude places private desire in conflict with public morality.
• Her later submission to religious guilt marks one of the novel's most painful reversals.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Match List I with List II. List I: 1. Tess Durbeyfield 2. Jude Fawley 3. Angel Clare 4. Sue Bridehead. List II: a. Aspiring scholar b. Milkmaid and tragic heroine c. Intellectual sceptic d. Idealistic husband.
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Explanation:
• Tess Durbeyfield matches b because she is the tragic heroine who works as a milkmaid at Talbothays.
• Jude Fawley matches a because he longs for university learning at Christminster.
• Angel Clare matches d because his idealism shapes both his love for Tess and his failure to understand her.
• Sue Bridehead matches c because she is intellectually sceptical of marriage and religious convention.
• Thus, the correct code is 1-b, 2-a, 3-d, 4-c.
• Jude Fawley matches a because he longs for university learning at Christminster.
• Angel Clare matches d because his idealism shapes both his love for Tess and his failure to understand her.
• Sue Bridehead matches c because she is intellectually sceptical of marriage and religious convention.
• Thus, the correct code is 1-b, 2-a, 3-d, 4-c.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which is the correct chronological order of first book publication?
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Explanation:
• The Return of the Native was published in 1878.
• The Mayor of Casterbridge was published in 1886.
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles was published in book form in 1891.
• Jude the Obscure was published in 1895.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure.
• The Mayor of Casterbridge was published in 1886.
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles was published in book form in 1891.
• Jude the Obscure was published in 1895.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which concept best describes Hardy's tendency to show characters shaped by heredity, environment and social conditions?
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Explanation:
• Naturalism emphasizes the pressure of environment, heredity and material conditions on human behaviour.
• Hardy's characters often struggle against forces larger than individual intention.
• Rural poverty, class, sexuality and institutional convention restrict their choices.
• Hardy is not a strict naturalist in every respect, but naturalistic features are central to his late fiction.
• Hardy's characters often struggle against forces larger than individual intention.
• Rural poverty, class, sexuality and institutional convention restrict their choices.
• Hardy is not a strict naturalist in every respect, but naturalistic features are central to his late fiction.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which event most directly reveals the destructive pressure of social convention in Jude the Obscure?
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Explanation:
• Jude and Sue face social hostility because they live together outside legal marriage.
• Their housing difficulties, isolation and public condemnation show the power of conventional morality.
• The novel presents marriage law and respectability as institutions capable of producing suffering.
• Their private relationship is repeatedly judged through rigid public standards.
• Their housing difficulties, isolation and public condemnation show the power of conventional morality.
• The novel presents marriage law and respectability as institutions capable of producing suffering.
• Their private relationship is repeatedly judged through rigid public standards.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Assertion: Hardy's Wessex is more than a decorative rural background. Reason: Its landscapes, customs and economic changes shape the choices available to characters. Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Wessex functions as a social, historical and symbolic environment.
• The Reason is correct because landscape, labour systems and local custom influence the characters' opportunities and conflicts.
• Rural modernization and economic instability alter traditional patterns of life.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains why Wessex is more than a decorative setting.
• The Reason is correct because landscape, labour systems and local custom influence the characters' opportunities and conflicts.
• Rural modernization and economic instability alter traditional patterns of life.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains why Wessex is more than a decorative setting.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which statement best describes the role of fate in Hardy's fiction?
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Explanation:
• Hardy's tragic plots often combine accident, coincidence, social pressure and personal decision.
• Fate is therefore usually represented through worldly events rather than a visible supernatural power.
• Characters are responsible for some choices but act within severely limited circumstances.
• This mixture produces Hardy's characteristic sense of tragic irony.
• Fate is therefore usually represented through worldly events rather than a visible supernatural power.
• Characters are responsible for some choices but act within severely limited circumstances.
• This mixture produces Hardy's characteristic sense of tragic irony.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Consider the following statements about Tess of the d'Urbervilles: 1. Tess's family learns of a supposed aristocratic ancestry. 2. Alec d'Urberville belongs to the ancient d'Urberville family by direct descent. 3. Angel Clare rejects Tess after her confession. 4. Stonehenge is associated with the novel's final movement. Which statements are correct?
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Parson Tringham tells John Durbeyfield of his family's old d'Urberville ancestry.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because Alec's family adopted the d'Urberville name after acquiring wealth.
• Statement 3 is correct because Angel leaves Tess after hearing her history.
• Statement 4 is correct because Tess is arrested at Stonehenge near the end of the novel.
• Therefore, 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because Alec's family adopted the d'Urberville name after acquiring wealth.
• Statement 3 is correct because Angel leaves Tess after hearing her history.
• Statement 4 is correct because Tess is arrested at Stonehenge near the end of the novel.
• Therefore, 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
What is the principal significance of Flintcomb-Ash in Tess of the d'Urbervilles?
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Explanation:
• Flintcomb-Ash is a bleak agricultural setting where Tess performs exhausting labour.
• The threshing machine symbolizes the intrusion of mechanical power into rural work.
• The episode contrasts sharply with the fertile and pastoral atmosphere of Talbothays.
• Hardy uses the setting to show rural hardship and the transformation of traditional labour.
• The threshing machine symbolizes the intrusion of mechanical power into rural work.
• The episode contrasts sharply with the fertile and pastoral atmosphere of Talbothays.
• Hardy uses the setting to show rural hardship and the transformation of traditional labour.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• Bathsheba Everdene is the heroine of Far from the Madding Crowd, not Jude the Obscure.
• Talbothays Dairy is the setting where Tess works and develops her relationship with Angel Clare.
• Alec d'Urberville is central to Tess's tragedy.
• Christminster is the city of learning idealized by Jude.
• Therefore, Jude the Obscure — Bathsheba Everdene is the incorrectly matched pair.
• Talbothays Dairy is the setting where Tess works and develops her relationship with Angel Clare.
• Alec d'Urberville is central to Tess's tragedy.
• Christminster is the city of learning idealized by Jude.
• Therefore, Jude the Obscure — Bathsheba Everdene is the incorrectly matched pair.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
How does Hardy chiefly present sexuality in Tess of the d'Urbervilles?
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Explanation:
• Tess's sexuality is judged through unequal standards applied to men and women.
• Alec's power and Angel's idealism both restrict Tess's ability to define her own experience.
• The novel distinguishes Tess's moral worth from the social labels imposed upon her.
• Sexuality is therefore connected with gender, class, coercion and public judgement.
• Alec's power and Angel's idealism both restrict Tess's ability to define her own experience.
• The novel distinguishes Tess's moral worth from the social labels imposed upon her.
• Sexuality is therefore connected with gender, class, coercion and public judgement.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Statement I: Jude the Obscure criticizes barriers to higher education. Statement II: Jude is welcomed into Christminster's colleges because of his intellectual ambition. Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Jude's exclusion exposes the class privilege of university education.
• Statement II is incorrect because his ambitions receive little encouragement from the academic establishment.
• He is advised to remain within the occupational sphere into which he was born.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because his ambitions receive little encouragement from the academic establishment.
• He is advised to remain within the occupational sphere into which he was born.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which comparison between Tess and Jude is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• Tess seeks dignity, love and stability but is constrained by gender, poverty and sexual convention.
• Jude seeks learning and an unconventional personal life but is constrained by class, marriage law and religion.
• Both characters make choices, yet their possibilities are narrowed by powerful social institutions.
• Their tragedies dramatize the conflict between individual desire and society.
• Jude seeks learning and an unconventional personal life but is constrained by class, marriage law and religion.
• Both characters make choices, yet their possibilities are narrowed by powerful social institutions.
• Their tragedies dramatize the conflict between individual desire and society.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which late Victorian crisis is most clearly reflected in Hardy's fiction?
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Explanation:
• Hardy's fiction reflects uncertainty about religious belief, moral authority and social progress.
• Traditional institutions often fail to protect individuals or offer convincing meaning.
• Scientific and historical thought challenged inherited assumptions during the late Victorian period.
• His novels register this crisis through doubt, pessimism and conflicts between desire and convention.
• Traditional institutions often fail to protect individuals or offer convincing meaning.
• Scientific and historical thought challenged inherited assumptions during the late Victorian period.
• His novels register this crisis through doubt, pessimism and conflicts between desire and convention.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Match List I with List II. List I: 1. Talbothays 2. Flintcomb-Ash 3. Christminster 4. Stonehenge. List II: a. Failed educational aspiration b. Fertility and emotional awakening c. Arrest near the novel's end d. Mechanized rural hardship.
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Explanation:
• Talbothays matches b because it is associated with fertility, dairy work and Tess's emotional awakening.
• Flintcomb-Ash matches d because it represents exhausting labour and agricultural mechanization.
• Christminster matches a because it embodies Jude's frustrated educational ambition.
• Stonehenge matches c because Tess is arrested there near the novel's conclusion.
• Thus, the correct code is 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c.
• Flintcomb-Ash matches d because it represents exhausting labour and agricultural mechanization.
• Christminster matches a because it embodies Jude's frustrated educational ambition.
• Stonehenge matches c because Tess is arrested there near the novel's conclusion.
• Thus, the correct code is 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Assertion: Hardy's pessimism does not mean that his characters lack moral value. Reason: Tess and Jude are often represented sympathetically even when society condemns them. Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Hardy's pessimism concerns the conditions of existence and society rather than the worthlessness of individuals.
• The Reason is correct because Tess and Jude receive sustained narrative sympathy despite social condemnation.
• Their suffering exposes the cruelty and inadequacy of the standards used to judge them.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because Tess and Jude receive sustained narrative sympathy despite social condemnation.
• Their suffering exposes the cruelty and inadequacy of the standards used to judge them.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Consider the following statements: 1. Hardy presents rural life as undergoing economic and technological change. 2. His tragic plots often combine coincidence with social pressure. 3. His protagonists are always rewarded for obeying convention. 4. His late fiction questions established ideas about marriage, religion and respectability. Which statements are correct?
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because machinery, migration and changing labour relations transform Hardy's rural communities.
• Statement 2 is correct because accident and social constraint frequently work together in his tragedies.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because conformity does not guarantee safety or happiness in Hardy's fiction.
• Statement 4 is correct because Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure challenge conventional morality and institutions.
• Therefore, 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because accident and social constraint frequently work together in his tragedies.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because conformity does not guarantee safety or happiness in Hardy's fiction.
• Statement 4 is correct because Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure challenge conventional morality and institutions.
• Therefore, 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated critical statement best describes Hardy's late fiction?
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Explanation:
• Hardy grounds his fiction in the detailed rural world of Wessex.
• Naturalistic pressures such as class, environment, sexuality and economic change narrow individual freedom.
• Chance and tragic irony complicate the relationship between responsibility and circumstance.
• The conflict between private desire and public convention produces the characteristic intensity of his late novels.
• Option C therefore provides the most comprehensive description.
• Naturalistic pressures such as class, environment, sexuality and economic change narrow individual freedom.
• Chance and tragic irony complicate the relationship between responsibility and circumstance.
• The conflict between private desire and public convention produces the characteristic intensity of his late novels.
• Option C therefore provides the most comprehensive description.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Thomas Hardy సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Wessex సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Jude Fawley సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Christminster సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: A. Angel Clare సమాధానం: A.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: B. Sue Bridehead సమాధానం: B.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. 1-b, 2-a, 3-d, 4-c సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Naturalism సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. The condemnation of Jude and Sue's unmarried life together సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Chance, social forces and character choices combine to produce tragic outcomes సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. 1, 3 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: A. It represents the harshness of mechanized agricultural labour సమాధానం: A.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: D. Jude the Obscure — Bathsheba Everdene సమాధానం: D.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: D. As a source of conflict shaped by power, gender and double standards సమాధానం: D.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. Both are destroyed partly because personal aspirations collide with rigid institutions and conventions సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. Uncertainty about religion, morality, social progress and inherited conventions సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: D. 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. It combines Wessex realism, naturalistic pressure and tragic irony to represent individuals struggling against social and historical forces సమాధానం: C.