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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which development most directly distinguished the public theatre of the English Renaissance from medieval cycle performance?
Explanation:
• English Renaissance theatre increasingly depended on professional companies that performed in purpose-built or regularly used playhouses.
• Medieval cycle plays were commonly associated with civic guilds, religious festivals and temporary or mobile staging.
• Renaissance drama used English extensively and included secular, historical, tragic and comic subjects.
• The growth of professional theatre helped create a commercial dramatic culture.
• Medieval cycle plays were commonly associated with civic guilds, religious festivals and temporary or mobile staging.
• Renaissance drama used English extensively and included secular, historical, tragic and comic subjects.
• The growth of professional theatre helped create a commercial dramatic culture.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Which Roman dramatist exerted the strongest classical influence on the development of English Renaissance revenge tragedy?
Explanation:
• Seneca's Latin tragedies strongly influenced Renaissance revenge drama through ghosts, revenge motives, rhetorical speeches, horror and violent action.
• Plautus and Terence primarily influenced comedy rather than revenge tragedy.
• Virgil was an epic poet and did not provide the principal dramatic model for this genre.
• English dramatists adapted Senecan conventions rather than merely reproducing them.
• Plautus and Terence primarily influenced comedy rather than revenge tragedy.
• Virgil was an epic poet and did not provide the principal dramatic model for this genre.
• English dramatists adapted Senecan conventions rather than merely reproducing them.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which feature is most characteristically associated with Senecan tragedy?
Explanation:
• Senecan tragedy is associated with revenge, supernatural appearances, elaborate rhetoric, moral reflection and extreme violence.
• These features became influential in English revenge tragedy.
• Domestic reconciliation and clever-servant plots belong more naturally to comic traditions.
• Renaissance dramatists often combined Senecan elements with native English theatrical practices.
• These features became influential in English revenge tragedy.
• Domestic reconciliation and clever-servant plots belong more naturally to comic traditions.
• Renaissance dramatists often combined Senecan elements with native English theatrical practices.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
The label University Wits is generally applied to
Explanation:
• The University Wits were educated late-sixteenth-century writers associated with the development of English Renaissance drama.
• The group commonly includes figures such as Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, George Peele and Thomas Nashe.
• The label is retrospective rather than the name of a formal organisation.
• Their experimentation with language, genre and dramatic structure prepared the way for Shakespeare and later playwrights.
• The group commonly includes figures such as Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, George Peele and Thomas Nashe.
• The label is retrospective rather than the name of a formal organisation.
• Their experimentation with language, genre and dramatic structure prepared the way for Shakespeare and later playwrights.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which dramatist wrote The Spanish Tragedy?
Explanation:
• Thomas Kyd wrote The Spanish Tragedy, one of the foundational works of English revenge tragedy.
• The play centres on Hieronimo's pursuit of vengeance for the murder of his son Horatio.
• Robert Greene, John Lyly and George Peele were important Renaissance writers but did not write this play.
• Kyd's tragedy influenced later works, including Shakespeare's Hamlet.
• The play centres on Hieronimo's pursuit of vengeance for the murder of his son Horatio.
• Robert Greene, John Lyly and George Peele were important Renaissance writers but did not write this play.
• Kyd's tragedy influenced later works, including Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
In The Spanish Tragedy, who seeks revenge for the murder of Horatio?
Explanation:
• Hieronimo, Horatio's father and the Knight Marshal of Spain, becomes the principal revenger.
• His attempts to obtain justice through official channels fail, driving him toward private vengeance.
• Lorenzo and Balthazar are implicated in Horatio's murder.
• Andrea is a ghost whose earlier death frames the action with the figure of Revenge.
• His attempts to obtain justice through official channels fail, driving him toward private vengeance.
• Lorenzo and Balthazar are implicated in Horatio's murder.
• Andrea is a ghost whose earlier death frames the action with the figure of Revenge.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which dramatic device brings the vengeance plot of The Spanish Tragedy to its climax?
Explanation:
• Hieronimo stages a multilingual court entertainment in which the performers carry out actual killings.
• The play within the play allows revenge to be disguised as theatrical representation.
• This device unites performance, deception and violence at the climax.
• It became an influential convention in later revenge drama.
• The play within the play allows revenge to be disguised as theatrical representation.
• This device unites performance, deception and violence at the climax.
• It became an influential convention in later revenge drama.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which character functions as the supernatural observer who accompanies the Ghost of Andrea in The Spanish Tragedy?
Explanation:
• Revenge accompanies the Ghost of Andrea and frames the action of The Spanish Tragedy.
• Andrea expects to witness punishment for those responsible for his death.
• The framing figures comment on delays and anticipate the final retribution.
• Bellimperia is a human participant in the revenge plot rather than its supernatural observer.
• Andrea expects to witness punishment for those responsible for his death.
• The framing figures comment on delays and anticipate the final retribution.
• Bellimperia is a human participant in the revenge plot rather than its supernatural observer.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which play by Christopher Marlowe dramatises a scholar who bargains away his soul in exchange for knowledge and power?
Explanation:
• Doctor Faustus dramatises a learned man who makes a pact with Lucifer through Mephistophilis.
• Faustus seeks knowledge, magical ability, pleasure and worldly power beyond accepted human limits.
• His bargain produces a conflict involving ambition, repentance, despair and damnation.
• The other options are Marlovian plays but centre on different protagonists.
• Faustus seeks knowledge, magical ability, pleasure and worldly power beyond accepted human limits.
• His bargain produces a conflict involving ambition, repentance, despair and damnation.
• The other options are Marlovian plays but centre on different protagonists.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Who serves as the demonic intermediary in Faustus's pact with Lucifer?
Explanation:
• Mephistophilis appears in response to Faustus's conjuring and becomes the intermediary in the infernal bargain.
• He serves Lucifer and repeatedly reminds Faustus of the reality of hell.
• Wagner is Faustus's servant, while Valdes and Cornelius encourage his interest in magic.
• Mephistophilis is both tempter and witness to the suffering of damnation.
• He serves Lucifer and repeatedly reminds Faustus of the reality of hell.
• Wagner is Faustus's servant, while Valdes and Cornelius encourage his interest in magic.
• Mephistophilis is both tempter and witness to the suffering of damnation.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which phrase best defines the overreacher hero in Marlowe's drama?
Explanation:
• The Marlovian overreacher possesses extraordinary ambition and seeks to exceed ordinary human limits.
• Tamburlaine pursues world conquest, Faustus seeks forbidden knowledge and Barabas seeks wealth and revenge.
• The overreacher's energy can be magnificent, but it also generates destruction or catastrophe.
• This type is central to Marlowe's exploration of Renaissance aspiration.
• Tamburlaine pursues world conquest, Faustus seeks forbidden knowledge and Barabas seeks wealth and revenge.
• The overreacher's energy can be magnificent, but it also generates destruction or catastrophe.
• This type is central to Marlowe's exploration of Renaissance aspiration.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which Marlovian protagonist rises from a Scythian shepherd to become a world conqueror?
Explanation:
• Tamburlaine begins as a Scythian shepherd and rises through military power to become a conqueror.
• His career exemplifies the Marlovian overreacher's limitless appetite for dominion.
• The character's grand speeches display the expansive possibilities of blank verse.
• Barabas, Edward II and Faustus pursue different forms of power or desire.
• His career exemplifies the Marlovian overreacher's limitless appetite for dominion.
• The character's grand speeches display the expansive possibilities of blank verse.
• Barabas, Edward II and Faustus pursue different forms of power or desire.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Blank verse is best defined as
Explanation:
• Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
• It became the dominant verse form of English Renaissance tragedy and history plays.
• Marlowe demonstrated its rhetorical power and flexibility in works such as Tamburlaine.
• Heroic couplets are rhymed iambic pentameter rather than blank verse.
• It became the dominant verse form of English Renaissance tragedy and history plays.
• Marlowe demonstrated its rhetorical power and flexibility in works such as Tamburlaine.
• Heroic couplets are rhymed iambic pentameter rather than blank verse.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which critical phrase is traditionally associated with Marlowe's powerful use of blank verse?
Explanation:
• The phrase mighty line is traditionally associated with Marlowe's forceful and sonorous blank verse.
• Ben Jonson praised Marlowe's dramatic verse using this expression.
• Negative capability is associated with John Keats, while objective correlative and dissociation of sensibility are associated with T. S. Eliot.
• Marlowe's verse helped establish blank verse as a major medium of English drama.
• Ben Jonson praised Marlowe's dramatic verse using this expression.
• Negative capability is associated with John Keats, while objective correlative and dissociation of sensibility are associated with T. S. Eliot.
• Marlowe's verse helped establish blank verse as a major medium of English drama.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which statement best describes Edward II?
Explanation:
• Edward II is a history play based on the reign and fall of the English king Edward II.
• It explores the conflict between royal authority, aristocratic opposition and Edward's attachment to Gaveston.
• The play gives unusual attention to the king's personal vulnerability and political failure.
• It is neither a morality play nor a comedy of mistaken identity.
• It explores the conflict between royal authority, aristocratic opposition and Edward's attachment to Gaveston.
• The play gives unusual attention to the king's personal vulnerability and political failure.
• It is neither a morality play nor a comedy of mistaken identity.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which favourite of King Edward becomes a central cause of conflict with the nobles in Marlowe's Edward II?
Explanation:
• Gaveston is Edward's favourite and his return from exile provokes the hostility of the English nobles.
• Edward's attachment to Gaveston becomes inseparable from questions of patronage, rank and royal authority.
• Mortimer emerges as a leading opponent of the king.
• Kent is Edward's brother, while Spencer becomes another royal favourite later in the play.
• Edward's attachment to Gaveston becomes inseparable from questions of patronage, rank and royal authority.
• Mortimer emerges as a leading opponent of the king.
• Kent is Edward's brother, while Spencer becomes another royal favourite later in the play.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Consider the following statements about revenge tragedy.
Statement I: It commonly includes a demand for vengeance after a murder or grave injury.
Statement II: It may use ghosts, delay, madness, intrigue and a violent catastrophe.
Choose the correct answer.
Statement I: It commonly includes a demand for vengeance after a murder or grave injury.
Statement II: It may use ghosts, delay, madness, intrigue and a violent catastrophe.
Choose the correct answer.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because revenge tragedy typically begins with or develops from an unpunished murder or serious wrong.
• Statement II is correct because ghosts, delayed action, real or feigned madness, secret plotting and multiple deaths are common conventions.
• The Spanish Tragedy provides an influential English model for these features.
• Therefore, both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
• Statement II is correct because ghosts, delayed action, real or feigned madness, secret plotting and multiple deaths are common conventions.
• The Spanish Tragedy provides an influential English model for these features.
• Therefore, both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which of the following statements about Doctor Faustus are correct?
1. Faustus rejects traditional fields of learning as insufficient.
2. He signs a contract with his own blood.
3. The Good Angel and Evil Angel externalise his moral conflict.
4. He achieves secure salvation before the final scene.
1. Faustus rejects traditional fields of learning as insufficient.
2. He signs a contract with his own blood.
3. The Good Angel and Evil Angel externalise his moral conflict.
4. He achieves secure salvation before the final scene.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Faustus dismisses logic, medicine, law and theology as inadequate to his ambition.
• Statement 2 is correct because he signs the infernal agreement with his blood.
• Statement 3 is correct because the Good Angel and Evil Angel dramatise competing spiritual impulses.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because the play ends with Faustus being taken to damnation rather than attaining secure salvation.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
• Statement 2 is correct because he signs the infernal agreement with his blood.
• Statement 3 is correct because the Good Angel and Evil Angel dramatise competing spiritual impulses.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because the play ends with Faustus being taken to damnation rather than attaining secure salvation.
• Therefore, the correct combination is 1, 2 and 3 only.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Assertion: Tamburlaine was important in the development of English Renaissance tragedy.
Reason: Its expansive blank verse gave unprecedented theatrical force to a hero driven by limitless ambition.
Choose the correct answer.
Reason: Its expansive blank verse gave unprecedented theatrical force to a hero driven by limitless ambition.
Choose the correct answer.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Tamburlaine helped transform the scale, language and heroic energy of the commercial stage.
• The Reason is correct because Marlowe's blank verse carries the protagonist's vast ambitions with unusual rhetorical power.
• The verse and the overreacher hero are central to the play's historical importance.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because Marlowe's blank verse carries the protagonist's vast ambitions with unusual rhetorical power.
• The verse and the overreacher hero are central to the play's historical importance.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Thomas Kyd
2. Christopher Marlowe
3. Hieronimo
4. Tamburlaine
List II
P. World-conquering overreacher
Q. The Spanish Tragedy
R. Doctor Faustus
S. Father seeking revenge for Horatio
Choose the correct code.
List I
1. Thomas Kyd
2. Christopher Marlowe
3. Hieronimo
4. Tamburlaine
List II
P. World-conquering overreacher
Q. The Spanish Tragedy
R. Doctor Faustus
S. Father seeking revenge for Horatio
Choose the correct code.
Explanation:
• Thomas Kyd matches Q because he wrote The Spanish Tragedy.
• Christopher Marlowe matches R because he wrote Doctor Faustus.
• Hieronimo matches S because he seeks revenge for the murder of his son Horatio.
• Tamburlaine matches P because he is the world-conquering Marlovian overreacher.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-Q, 2-R, 3-S, 4-P.
• Christopher Marlowe matches R because he wrote Doctor Faustus.
• Hieronimo matches S because he seeks revenge for the murder of his son Horatio.
• Tamburlaine matches P because he is the world-conquering Marlovian overreacher.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-Q, 2-R, 3-S, 4-P.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Arrange the following events in Doctor Faustus in the correct dramatic sequence.
1. Faustus signs the infernal contract with his blood.
2. Faustus rejects the traditional branches of learning.
3. Faustus faces his final hour in terror.
4. Mephistophilis appears after Faustus's conjuring.
1. Faustus signs the infernal contract with his blood.
2. Faustus rejects the traditional branches of learning.
3. Faustus faces his final hour in terror.
4. Mephistophilis appears after Faustus's conjuring.
Explanation:
• Faustus first reviews and rejects the traditional fields of learning because they do not satisfy his ambition.
• He then turns to necromancy and conjures Mephistophilis.
• After negotiating the terms of the bargain, he signs the infernal contract with his blood.
• Near the end, he confronts his final hour and the approach of damnation.
• The correct sequence is 2, 4, 1, 3.
• He then turns to necromancy and conjures Mephistophilis.
• After negotiating the terms of the bargain, he signs the infernal contract with his blood.
• Near the end, he confronts his final hour and the approach of damnation.
• The correct sequence is 2, 4, 1, 3.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
Explanation:
• The pair Tamburlaine — domestic comedy of marriage is incorrect.
• Tamburlaine is a heroic tragedy centred on conquest, ambition and the pursuit of imperial power.
• The Spanish Tragedy is a revenge tragedy, while Doctor Faustus examines forbidden knowledge and damnation.
• Edward II dramatises the political and personal fall of an English monarch.
• Tamburlaine is a heroic tragedy centred on conquest, ambition and the pursuit of imperial power.
• The Spanish Tragedy is a revenge tragedy, while Doctor Faustus examines forbidden knowledge and damnation.
• Edward II dramatises the political and personal fall of an English monarch.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
A Renaissance tragedy presents a ghost demanding vengeance, a hesitant revenger, madness, a delayed pursuit of justice and a final scene filled with deaths. The play most clearly follows the conventions of
Explanation:
• The combination of a ghost, revenge command, delay, madness and catastrophic violence identifies revenge tragedy.
• Senecan drama and The Spanish Tragedy helped establish these conventions for the English stage.
• Pastoral drama centres on idealised rural settings, while city comedy satirises urban life.
• Morality drama uses personified abstractions to represent spiritual conflict.
• Senecan drama and The Spanish Tragedy helped establish these conventions for the English stage.
• Pastoral drama centres on idealised rural settings, while city comedy satirises urban life.
• Morality drama uses personified abstractions to represent spiritual conflict.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which comparison between Hieronimo and Faustus is most accurate?
Explanation:
• Hieronimo turns to private revenge after legal and political channels fail to punish Horatio's murderers.
• Faustus voluntarily embraces necromancy and signs a pact in pursuit of knowledge, pleasure and power.
• Both characters experience conflict and delay, but the origins of their tragedies differ.
• The comparison highlights institutional failure in Kyd and self-directed overreaching in Marlowe.
• Faustus voluntarily embraces necromancy and signs a pact in pursuit of knowledge, pleasure and power.
• Both characters experience conflict and delay, but the origins of their tragedies differ.
• The comparison highlights institutional failure in Kyd and self-directed overreaching in Marlowe.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which combination correctly identifies features associated with the transition to mature English Renaissance drama?
1. Adaptation of classical forms and themes
2. Growth of professional acting companies
3. Development of flexible blank verse
4. Expansion of secular tragedy and history plays
1. Adaptation of classical forms and themes
2. Growth of professional acting companies
3. Development of flexible blank verse
4. Expansion of secular tragedy and history plays
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Renaissance dramatists adapted classical tragedy, comedy and rhetorical models.
• Statement 2 is correct because professional companies created a continuing commercial theatre.
• Statement 3 is correct because blank verse became a flexible medium for dramatic speech.
• Statement 4 is correct because tragedy and history increasingly treated secular political, psychological and heroic subjects.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because professional companies created a continuing commercial theatre.
• Statement 3 is correct because blank verse became a flexible medium for dramatic speech.
• Statement 4 is correct because tragedy and history increasingly treated secular political, psychological and heroic subjects.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Its reliance on professional acting companies and permanent playhouses సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. Seneca సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. A revenge theme accompanied by ghosts, rhetoric and sensational violence సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. a group of educated late-sixteenth-century writers who helped shape professional English drama సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Thomas Kyd సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Hieronimo సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. A play within the play in which real killings occur సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Revenge సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Doctor Faustus సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Mephistophilis సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. A protagonist whose vast aspirations challenge human, political or divine limits సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Tamburlaine సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. unrhymed iambic pentameter సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. mighty line సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. It is a history play portraying royal authority, personal attachment and political rebellion. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Gaveston సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. 1, 2 and 3 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. 1-Q, 2-R, 3-S, 4-P సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. 2, 4, 1, 3 సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: D. Tamburlaine — domestic comedy of marriage సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: B. revenge tragedy సమాధానం: B.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: C. Hieronimo becomes a revenger after institutional justice fails, whereas Faustus initiates his catastrophe by choosing forbidden power. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: D. 1, 2, 3 and 4 సమాధానం: D.
