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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Who wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman?
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Explanation:
• John Fowles wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman.
• The novel was published in 1969 and is set largely in the Victorian period.
• It combines a historical setting with a self-conscious twentieth-century narrator.
• Fowles uses metafiction to question realism, authorial control and conventional endings.
• The novel was published in 1969 and is set largely in the Victorian period.
• It combines a historical setting with a self-conscious twentieth-century narrator.
• Fowles uses metafiction to question realism, authorial control and conventional endings.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
In which year was The French Lieutenant's Woman first published?
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Explanation:
• The French Lieutenant's Woman was first published in 1969.
• Its Victorian setting is repeatedly interpreted through the perspective of a later narrator.
• The year 1981 is associated with the publication of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.
• The novel became a major example of postmodern historical fiction.
• Its Victorian setting is repeatedly interpreted through the perspective of a later narrator.
• The year 1981 is associated with the publication of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.
• The novel became a major example of postmodern historical fiction.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which character in The French Lieutenant's Woman is known as the supposed abandoned woman of Lyme Regis?
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Explanation:
• Sarah Woodruff is the enigmatic woman associated with the French lieutenant.
• Her social identity is shaped by rumour, exclusion and the stories others tell about her.
• Charles Smithson becomes increasingly fascinated by her apparent independence and mystery.
• Sarah's resistance to fixed interpretation is central to the novel's postmodern design.
• Her social identity is shaped by rumour, exclusion and the stories others tell about her.
• Charles Smithson becomes increasingly fascinated by her apparent independence and mystery.
• Sarah's resistance to fixed interpretation is central to the novel's postmodern design.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which definition best describes metafiction?
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Explanation:
• Metafiction openly reflects on storytelling, authorship and the construction of fictional worlds.
• It may interrupt the plot, address readers or expose alternative versions of events.
• The technique challenges the idea that fiction offers transparent access to reality.
• The French Lieutenant's Woman is a major example because its narrator comments on narrative choice and historical representation.
• It may interrupt the plot, address readers or expose alternative versions of events.
• The technique challenges the idea that fiction offers transparent access to reality.
• The French Lieutenant's Woman is a major example because its narrator comments on narrative choice and historical representation.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which formal feature most clearly disrupts conventional closure in The French Lieutenant's Woman?
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Explanation:
• Fowles presents more than one possible ending to the relationship between Charles and Sarah.
• These alternatives prevent the narrative from claiming one inevitable or fully authoritative conclusion.
• The device foregrounds the novelist's power to arrange events while also questioning that power.
• Multiple endings are therefore central to the novel's metafictional challenge to Victorian closure.
• These alternatives prevent the narrative from claiming one inevitable or fully authoritative conclusion.
• The device foregrounds the novelist's power to arrange events while also questioning that power.
• Multiple endings are therefore central to the novel's metafictional challenge to Victorian closure.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Assertion: The narrator of The French Lieutenant's Woman cannot be treated as a conventional Victorian omniscient narrator. Reason: The narrator openly discusses fiction, historical distance and alternative possibilities. Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because the narrator repeatedly breaks the illusion of a self-contained Victorian world.
• The Reason is correct because the narrator comments on fictional method, historical knowledge and possible outcomes.
• These interventions directly distinguish the voice from a conventional invisible omniscient narrator.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because the narrator comments on fictional method, historical knowledge and possible outcomes.
• These interventions directly distinguish the voice from a conventional invisible omniscient narrator.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Who wrote The Bloody Chamber?
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Explanation:
• Angela Carter wrote The Bloody Chamber.
• The collection was published in 1979.
• Its stories revise fairy tales through Gothic imagery, sexuality and feminist critique.
• Carter transforms inherited narratives rather than merely repeating their conventional morals.
• The collection was published in 1979.
• Its stories revise fairy tales through Gothic imagery, sexuality and feminist critique.
• Carter transforms inherited narratives rather than merely repeating their conventional morals.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which Angela Carter novel features the aerialist Sophie Fevvers?
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Explanation:
• Sophie Fevvers is the central performer in Nights at the Circus.
• She claims to be a winged woman and works as an internationally famous aerialist.
• The novel combines fantasy, spectacle, history and self-conscious narration.
• Fevvers's uncertain identity challenges distinctions between fact, performance and invention.
• She claims to be a winged woman and works as an internationally famous aerialist.
• The novel combines fantasy, spectacle, history and self-conscious narration.
• Fevvers's uncertain identity challenges distinctions between fact, performance and invention.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Who wrote Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
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Explanation:
• Jeanette Winterson wrote Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
• The novel was published in 1985.
• It follows a girl raised within a strict religious community as she develops an identity that conflicts with communal expectations.
• The narrative blends autobiography, fiction, biblical allusion and fairy-tale elements.
• The novel was published in 1985.
• It follows a girl raised within a strict religious community as she develops an identity that conflicts with communal expectations.
• The narrative blends autobiography, fiction, biblical allusion and fairy-tale elements.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which feature is most characteristic of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
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Explanation:
• Winterson mixes personal experience with myth, biblical patterns, fantasy and fairy tale.
• This hybrid form questions the boundary between autobiography and fiction.
• The novel also challenges religious and social attempts to impose a single authorized story on individual identity.
• Its formal mixture is therefore inseparable from its thematic concern with self-creation.
• This hybrid form questions the boundary between autobiography and fiction.
• The novel also challenges religious and social attempts to impose a single authorized story on individual identity.
• Its formal mixture is therefore inseparable from its thematic concern with self-creation.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which Kazuo Ishiguro novel is narrated by the English butler Stevens?
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Explanation:
• Stevens narrates The Remains of the Day.
• His journey through England prompts memories of service at Darlington Hall.
• His restrained voice gradually reveals emotional loss, political misjudgement and self-deception.
• The novel uses unreliable memory to explore duty, dignity and personal responsibility.
• His journey through England prompts memories of service at Darlington Hall.
• His restrained voice gradually reveals emotional loss, political misjudgement and self-deception.
• The novel uses unreliable memory to explore duty, dignity and personal responsibility.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which term best describes a narrative about history that also questions how historical knowledge is constructed?
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Explanation:
• Historiographic metafiction combines historical subject matter with self-conscious reflection on narrative construction.
• It questions whether history can be represented as a single, neutral and complete account.
• Such fiction often blends documented events with invention, parody and competing perspectives.
• The term is frequently associated with postmodern discussions of historical narrative.
• It questions whether history can be represented as a single, neutral and complete account.
• Such fiction often blends documented events with invention, parody and competing perspectives.
• The term is frequently associated with postmodern discussions of historical narrative.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which is the correct chronological order of first publication?
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Explanation:
• The French Lieutenant's Woman was published in 1969.
• The Bloody Chamber was published in 1979.
• Midnight's Children was published in 1981.
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was published in 1985.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Bloody Chamber, Midnight's Children and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
• The Bloody Chamber was published in 1979.
• Midnight's Children was published in 1981.
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was published in 1985.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Bloody Chamber, Midnight's Children and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Match List I with List II. List I: 1. The French Lieutenant's Woman 2. The Remains of the Day 3. White Teeth 4. Midnight's Children. List II: a. Saleem Sinai b. Stevens c. Sarah Woodruff d. Archie Jones.
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Explanation:
• The French Lieutenant's Woman matches Sarah Woodruff, whose identity resists fixed interpretation.
• The Remains of the Day matches Stevens, the butler who retrospectively narrates his life of service.
• White Teeth matches Archie Jones, whose family is central to its multicultural London narrative.
• Midnight's Children matches Saleem Sinai, whose life is linked to the history of independent India.
• Thus, the correct code is 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a.
• The Remains of the Day matches Stevens, the butler who retrospectively narrates his life of service.
• White Teeth matches Archie Jones, whose family is central to its multicultural London narrative.
• Midnight's Children matches Saleem Sinai, whose life is linked to the history of independent India.
• Thus, the correct code is 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Consider the following statements: 1. White Teeth explores multicultural London. 2. The Remains of the Day uses memory to reveal self-deception. 3. Midnight's Children links private life with national history. 4. The French Lieutenant's Woman presents only one unquestioned ending. Which statements are correct?
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because White Teeth follows families shaped by migration, race and cultural mixture in London.
• Statement 2 is correct because Stevens's recollections gradually expose his emotional and political misjudgements.
• Statement 3 is correct because Saleem's personal history is intertwined with major events in modern India.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because The French Lieutenant's Woman offers alternative endings.
• Therefore, 1, 2 and 3 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because Stevens's recollections gradually expose his emotional and political misjudgements.
• Statement 3 is correct because Saleem's personal history is intertwined with major events in modern India.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because The French Lieutenant's Woman offers alternative endings.
• Therefore, 1, 2 and 3 only are correct.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which Zadie Smith novel follows the interconnected Jones and Iqbal families?
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Explanation:
• White Teeth follows the Jones and Iqbal families across generations.
• The novel was published in 2000 and is set largely in multicultural London.
• It explores migration, religion, race, science, family history and hybrid identity.
• Its multiple plots create a broad comic panorama of changing British society.
• The novel was published in 2000 and is set largely in multicultural London.
• It explores migration, religion, race, science, family history and hybrid identity.
• Its multiple plots create a broad comic panorama of changing British society.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which feature most strongly supports an interpretation of White Teeth as a novel of multiculturalism?
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Explanation:
• White Teeth brings together characters with British, Jamaican and Bangladeshi backgrounds.
• Their lives reveal cultural exchange, conflict, adaptation and generational difference.
• The novel treats British identity as historically changing and internally diverse.
• Multiculturalism is therefore represented through ordinary family and community relationships.
• Their lives reveal cultural exchange, conflict, adaptation and generational difference.
• The novel treats British identity as historically changing and internally diverse.
• Multiculturalism is therefore represented through ordinary family and community relationships.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• White Teeth was written by Zadie Smith, not Kazuo Ishiguro.
• Angela Carter wrote Nights at the Circus.
• Jeanette Winterson wrote Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
• Salman Rushdie wrote Midnight's Children.
• Therefore, Kazuo Ishiguro — White Teeth is the incorrectly matched pair.
• Angela Carter wrote Nights at the Circus.
• Jeanette Winterson wrote Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
• Salman Rushdie wrote Midnight's Children.
• Therefore, Kazuo Ishiguro — White Teeth is the incorrectly matched pair.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
A first-person narrator confidently reconstructs the past, but omissions and contradictions gradually reveal that his memory protects him from painful truths. Which author is especially associated with this method?
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Explanation:
• Kazuo Ishiguro frequently uses narrators whose controlled recollections conceal emotional and moral difficulty.
• Stevens in The Remains of the Day is a major example of this method.
• Readers must interpret gaps, evasions and revisions rather than accept the narrator's account without question.
• Memory becomes both a source of identity and a mechanism of self-protection.
• Stevens in The Remains of the Day is a major example of this method.
• Readers must interpret gaps, evasions and revisions rather than accept the narrator's account without question.
• Memory becomes both a source of identity and a mechanism of self-protection.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which comparison between Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• Carter revises fairy tales and Gothic traditions to expose the politics of desire and gender.
• Winterson combines myth, scripture and fantasy with narratives of personal and sexual identity.
• Both writers treat inherited stories as structures that can be challenged and transformed.
• Their postmodern methods connect formal experimentation with feminist and queer concerns.
• Winterson combines myth, scripture and fantasy with narratives of personal and sexual identity.
• Both writers treat inherited stories as structures that can be challenged and transformed.
• Their postmodern methods connect formal experimentation with feminist and queer concerns.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Who narrates Midnight's Children?
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Explanation:
• Saleem Sinai narrates Midnight's Children.
• He is born at the moment of Indian independence on 15 August 1947.
• His body, memory and family history are symbolically linked to the history of the nation.
• His account is self-conscious, digressive and openly uncertain about factual precision.
• He is born at the moment of Indian independence on 15 August 1947.
• His body, memory and family history are symbolically linked to the history of the nation.
• His account is self-conscious, digressive and openly uncertain about factual precision.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
What is a central postmodern feature of Midnight's Children?
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Explanation:
• Midnight's Children blends historical events with fantasy, family legend and magical elements.
• Saleem repeatedly comments on the process and possible errors of his own narration.
• The novel uses linguistic mixture and cultural hybridity to challenge a single authorized version of history.
• Personal memory and national history are deliberately intertwined.
• Saleem repeatedly comments on the process and possible errors of his own narration.
• The novel uses linguistic mixture and cultural hybridity to challenge a single authorized version of history.
• Personal memory and national history are deliberately intertwined.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Statement I: Stevens in The Remains of the Day gradually recognizes losses concealed by his ideal of professional dignity. Statement II: His narration provides a completely objective and emotionally transparent record of the past. Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Stevens's journey leads him to reconsider his service to Lord Darlington and his relationship with Miss Kenton.
• Statement II is incorrect because his restrained narration is marked by evasion, delayed recognition and self-deception.
• Readers often understand the emotional implications before Stevens openly acknowledges them.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because his restrained narration is marked by evasion, delayed recognition and self-deception.
• Readers often understand the emotional implications before Stevens openly acknowledges them.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which statement best distinguishes historiographic metafiction from a conventional historical novel?
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Explanation:
• Historiographic metafiction uses the past as subject matter while exposing the constructed nature of historical narratives.
• It may combine actual events with invention, parody, multiple perspectives and explicit narrative commentary.
• The form does not deny that the past existed; it questions unproblematic access to that past.
• This method is central to many postmodern engagements with history.
• It may combine actual events with invention, parody, multiple perspectives and explicit narrative commentary.
• The form does not deny that the past existed; it questions unproblematic access to that past.
• This method is central to many postmodern engagements with history.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated critical statement best describes the fiction represented in this topic?
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Explanation:
• Fowles exposes the construction of historical fiction through intrusive narration and alternative endings.
• Carter and Winterson revise inherited stories to challenge fixed identities and gender conventions.
• Ishiguro explores the selective and unreliable workings of memory.
• Smith and Rushdie represent migration, multiculturalism and hybrid histories through formally inventive narratives.
• Option A therefore provides the most comprehensive account of contemporary British fiction and metafiction.
• Carter and Winterson revise inherited stories to challenge fixed identities and gender conventions.
• Ishiguro explores the selective and unreliable workings of memory.
• Smith and Rushdie represent migration, multiculturalism and hybrid histories through formally inventive narratives.
• Option A therefore provides the most comprehensive account of contemporary British fiction and metafiction.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. John Fowles సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. 1969 సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Sarah Woodruff సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Fiction that self-consciously draws attention to its own status as an invented narrative సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. The presentation of alternative endings సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: B. Angela Carter సమాధానం: B.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Nights at the Circus సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Jeanette Winterson సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. A mixture of personal narrative, myth, scripture and fairy tale సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. The Remains of the Day సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Historiographic metafiction సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Bloody Chamber, Midnight's Children, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. 1, 2 and 3 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. White Teeth సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. Its representation of interacting families shaped by different ethnic, religious and national histories సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. Kazuo Ishiguro — White Teeth సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. Kazuo Ishiguro సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. Both rewrite inherited stories to explore sexuality, gender and alternative identities సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Saleem Sinai సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. The mixing of history, fantasy, memory and self-conscious narration సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. It represents the past while questioning the narrative processes through which history is known సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. It uses metafiction, revised histories, unstable memory and hybrid identities to question fixed accounts of the past and of Britishness సమాధానం: A.