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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
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Explanation:
• Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter.
• The novel was published in 1850 and is set in Puritan New England.
• It examines sin, guilt, secrecy, punishment and social judgement.
• Hawthorne's symbolic method made the work central to the emergence of American fiction.
• The novel was published in 1850 and is set in Puritan New England.
• It examines sin, guilt, secrecy, punishment and social judgement.
• Hawthorne's symbolic method made the work central to the emergence of American fiction.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
What does the scarlet letter initially signify when Hester Prynne is forced to wear it?
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Explanation:
• The letter A initially marks Hester as an adulteress under Puritan law.
• The community intends it to function as a permanent sign of shame.
• Its meaning changes as Hester's courage and service lead some observers to associate it with ability or strength.
• The shifting symbolism prevents the letter from retaining one fixed meaning.
• The community intends it to function as a permanent sign of shame.
• Its meaning changes as Hester's courage and service lead some observers to associate it with ability or strength.
• The shifting symbolism prevents the letter from retaining one fixed meaning.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Where is The Scarlet Letter chiefly set?
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Explanation:
• The Scarlet Letter is chiefly set in seventeenth-century Puritan Boston.
• The setting allows Hawthorne to examine the authority of a strict religious community.
• Public spaces such as the scaffold are contrasted with the forest, where social control becomes less secure.
• The setting is essential to the novel's treatment of Puritanism and individual conscience.
• The setting allows Hawthorne to examine the authority of a strict religious community.
• Public spaces such as the scaffold are contrasted with the forest, where social control becomes less secure.
• The setting is essential to the novel's treatment of Puritanism and individual conscience.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
What is Roger Chillingworth's relationship to Hester Prynne?
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Explanation:
• Roger Chillingworth is Hester Prynne's estranged husband.
• He conceals his identity when he arrives in Boston and becomes determined to discover Pearl's father.
• His obsession with revenge gradually deforms his moral character.
• Hawthorne contrasts Chillingworth's deliberate vengeance with Hester's endurance and Dimmesdale's concealed guilt.
• He conceals his identity when he arrives in Boston and becomes determined to discover Pearl's father.
• His obsession with revenge gradually deforms his moral character.
• Hawthorne contrasts Chillingworth's deliberate vengeance with Hester's endurance and Dimmesdale's concealed guilt.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Statement I: The Scarlet Letter criticizes the severity and hypocrisy of Puritan moral judgement. Statement II: Hester Prynne remains entirely passive and never develops an independent identity. Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because the novel exposes the cruelty of public punishment and the gap between visible respectability and concealed sin.
• Statement II is incorrect because Hester supports herself through needlework, raises Pearl and develops independent reflections on gender and society.
• Her identity exceeds the meaning imposed by the community.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because Hester supports herself through needlework, raises Pearl and develops independent reflections on gender and society.
• Her identity exceeds the meaning imposed by the community.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Who wrote Moby-Dick?
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Explanation:
• Herman Melville wrote Moby-Dick.
• The novel was published in 1851 and follows the voyage of the Pequod.
• It combines adventure, symbolism, philosophical speculation and detailed accounts of whaling.
• Captain Ahab's pursuit of the white whale drives the tragic action.
• The novel was published in 1851 and follows the voyage of the Pequod.
• It combines adventure, symbolism, philosophical speculation and detailed accounts of whaling.
• Captain Ahab's pursuit of the white whale drives the tragic action.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Who narrates Moby-Dick?
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Explanation:
• Ishmael is the principal narrator of Moby-Dick.
• His famous opening invitation establishes an apparently personal account of the voyage.
• His voice expands beyond ordinary autobiography into philosophical, encyclopedic and dramatic modes.
• He survives the destruction of the Pequod and becomes the teller of its story.
• His famous opening invitation establishes an apparently personal account of the voyage.
• His voice expands beyond ordinary autobiography into philosophical, encyclopedic and dramatic modes.
• He survives the destruction of the Pequod and becomes the teller of its story.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Who commands the Pequod in Moby-Dick?
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Explanation:
• Captain Ahab commands the Pequod.
• He turns a commercial whaling voyage into a personal hunt for Moby Dick.
• His monomaniacal desire for revenge overrides the safety and purposes of the crew.
• Ahab's authority and obsession give the novel its tragic structure.
• He turns a commercial whaling voyage into a personal hunt for Moby Dick.
• His monomaniacal desire for revenge overrides the safety and purposes of the crew.
• Ahab's authority and obsession give the novel its tragic structure.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which statement best describes the symbolism of the white whale in Moby-Dick?
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Explanation:
• Moby Dick resists a single final interpretation.
• To Ahab, the whale appears to embody a hostile power behind visible reality.
• Other perspectives associate its whiteness with purity, terror, emptiness or the unknowable.
• This symbolic multiplicity is central to Melville's metaphysical and modern critical importance.
• To Ahab, the whale appears to embody a hostile power behind visible reality.
• Other perspectives associate its whiteness with purity, terror, emptiness or the unknowable.
• This symbolic multiplicity is central to Melville's metaphysical and modern critical importance.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Match List I with List II. List I: 1. The Scarlet Letter 2. Moby-Dick 3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 4. The Portrait of a Lady. List II: a. Isabel Archer b. Hester Prynne c. Ishmael d. Jim.
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Explanation:
• The Scarlet Letter matches Hester Prynne, who is publicly punished for adultery.
• Moby-Dick matches Ishmael, the surviving narrator of the Pequod's voyage.
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn matches Jim, who seeks freedom from enslavement.
• The Portrait of a Lady matches Isabel Archer, the American heroine whose freedom is tested in Europe.
• Thus, the correct code is 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a.
• Moby-Dick matches Ishmael, the surviving narrator of the Pequod's voyage.
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn matches Jim, who seeks freedom from enslavement.
• The Portrait of a Lady matches Isabel Archer, the American heroine whose freedom is tested in Europe.
• Thus, the correct code is 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which is the correct chronological order of first publication?
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Explanation:
• The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850.
• Moby-Dick was published in 1851.
• Daisy Miller first appeared in 1878.
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and in the United States in 1885.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Daisy Miller and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• Moby-Dick was published in 1851.
• Daisy Miller first appeared in 1878.
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and in the United States in 1885.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Daisy Miller and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Who wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
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Explanation:
• Mark Twain wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• The novel was first published in 1884 in the United Kingdom and in 1885 in the United States.
• Huck narrates his journey down the Mississippi River with Jim.
• Twain uses vernacular speech, satire and frontier experience to examine race and American society.
• The novel was first published in 1884 in the United Kingdom and in 1885 in the United States.
• Huck narrates his journey down the Mississippi River with Jim.
• Twain uses vernacular speech, satire and frontier experience to examine race and American society.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
What is Jim's principal goal in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
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Explanation:
• Jim escapes because he fears being sold away from his family.
• His journey is therefore directed toward freedom and possible family reunion.
• Huck's growing recognition of Jim's humanity conflicts with the racist assumptions he has inherited.
• Jim's presence makes race, slavery and moral conscience central to the novel.
• His journey is therefore directed toward freedom and possible family reunion.
• Huck's growing recognition of Jim's humanity conflicts with the racist assumptions he has inherited.
• Jim's presence makes race, slavery and moral conscience central to the novel.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
What is the principal narrative significance of the Mississippi River in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
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Explanation:
• The river offers Huck and Jim temporary movement away from restrictive communities.
• Their journey brings them into contact with violence, fraud, family conflict and racial injustice along the shore.
• The river can suggest freedom, but it never fully escapes the social world surrounding it.
• This tension makes the frontier journey both liberating and critically revealing.
• Their journey brings them into contact with violence, fraud, family conflict and racial injustice along the shore.
• The river can suggest freedom, but it never fully escapes the social world surrounding it.
• This tension makes the frontier journey both liberating and critically revealing.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which narrative feature is especially important in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
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Explanation:
• Huck narrates the novel in a regional vernacular rather than in standardized literary language.
• His voice establishes character, social setting and comic irony.
• Readers often understand moral implications that Huck himself cannot fully articulate.
• Twain's use of vernacular was important to the development of a distinctively American fictional voice.
• His voice establishes character, social setting and comic irony.
• Readers often understand moral implications that Huck himself cannot fully articulate.
• Twain's use of vernacular was important to the development of a distinctively American fictional voice.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Assertion: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn exposes the moral corruption of a slaveholding society. Reason: Huck's relationship with Jim forces him to choose between inherited social rules and personal loyalty. Choose the correct answer.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because the novel repeatedly reveals the violence and hypocrisy supporting slavery and racism.
• The Reason is correct because Huck has been taught that helping Jim is wrong, yet his lived experience produces sympathy and loyalty.
• His decision not to betray Jim exposes the failure of the society's official morality.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because Huck has been taught that helping Jim is wrong, yet his lived experience produces sympathy and loyalty.
• His decision not to betray Jim exposes the failure of the society's official morality.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which Henry James novel follows the experiences of Isabel Archer?
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Explanation:
• Isabel Archer is the central figure of The Portrait of a Lady.
• The novel was published in book form in 1881 after serialization.
• Isabel values independence but becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage to Gilbert Osmond.
• James uses her experience to examine freedom, perception, choice and psychological self-knowledge.
• The novel was published in book form in 1881 after serialization.
• Isabel values independence but becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage to Gilbert Osmond.
• James uses her experience to examine freedom, perception, choice and psychological self-knowledge.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which character is the heroine of The Portrait of a Lady?
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Explanation:
• Isabel Archer is the heroine of The Portrait of a Lady.
• She is a young American whose inheritance appears to expand her freedom.
• Her marriage to Gilbert Osmond reveals the risks of limited judgement and idealized independence.
• Daisy Miller, Milly Theale and Olive Chancellor belong to other works by Henry James.
• She is a young American whose inheritance appears to expand her freedom.
• Her marriage to Gilbert Osmond reveals the risks of limited judgement and idealized independence.
• Daisy Miller, Milly Theale and Olive Chancellor belong to other works by Henry James.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which narrative concept is most closely associated with Henry James's psychological realism?
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Explanation:
• Henry James often organizes a narrative through the perceptions of a central consciousness.
• Readers encounter events as they are understood, misunderstood or gradually recognized by a focal character.
• This method allows fine analysis of motive, perception and moral judgement.
• It is a major contribution to psychological realism and the later development of limited point of view.
• Readers encounter events as they are understood, misunderstood or gradually recognized by a focal character.
• This method allows fine analysis of motive, perception and moral judgement.
• It is a major contribution to psychological realism and the later development of limited point of view.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
What does the international theme in Henry James's fiction usually involve?
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Explanation:
• James's international theme commonly places American characters in European settings.
• The encounters contrast innocence, spontaneity or democratic confidence with experience, convention and social complexity.
• James does not treat either culture as uniformly superior.
• The resulting misunderstandings provide material for psychological and moral analysis.
• The encounters contrast innocence, spontaneity or democratic confidence with experience, convention and social complexity.
• James does not treat either culture as uniformly superior.
• The resulting misunderstandings provide material for psychological and moral analysis.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• Captain Ahab belongs to Moby-Dick, not The Portrait of a Lady.
• Arthur Dimmesdale is the minister who shares Hester's concealed guilt in The Scarlet Letter.
• Queequeg is Ishmael's friend and fellow harpooner in Moby-Dick.
• Jim travels with Huck while seeking freedom in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• Therefore, The Portrait of a Lady — Captain Ahab is the incorrectly matched pair.
• Arthur Dimmesdale is the minister who shares Hester's concealed guilt in The Scarlet Letter.
• Queequeg is Ishmael's friend and fellow harpooner in Moby-Dick.
• Jim travels with Huck while seeking freedom in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• Therefore, The Portrait of a Lady — Captain Ahab is the incorrectly matched pair.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Consider the following statements: 1. Hawthorne uses symbolism to examine Puritan guilt and social judgement. 2. Melville combines maritime adventure with metaphysical speculation. 3. Twain uses vernacular narration to explore race and frontier society. 4. Henry James develops psychological realism through limited perspective. Which statements are correct?
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Hawthorne turns the letter, scaffold and forest into complex moral symbols.
• Statement 2 is correct because Moby-Dick moves from whaling adventure into philosophical inquiry about knowledge, evil and existence.
• Statement 3 is correct because Huck's vernacular voice supports Twain's satire of slavery, violence and social pretence.
• Statement 4 is correct because James often filters events through a character's developing consciousness.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because Moby-Dick moves from whaling adventure into philosophical inquiry about knowledge, evil and existence.
• Statement 3 is correct because Huck's vernacular voice supports Twain's satire of slavery, violence and social pretence.
• Statement 4 is correct because James often filters events through a character's developing consciousness.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which comparison between Hawthorne and Melville is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• Hawthorne uses the scarlet letter and other recurring images to explore sin, identity and judgement.
• Melville uses the white whale, whiteness and the sea to raise questions about evil, knowledge and the limits of interpretation.
• In both writers, symbols generate competing meanings rather than simple allegorical equations.
• Their symbolic density helped establish the intellectual ambition of nineteenth-century American fiction.
• Melville uses the white whale, whiteness and the sea to raise questions about evil, knowledge and the limits of interpretation.
• In both writers, symbols generate competing meanings rather than simple allegorical equations.
• Their symbolic density helped establish the intellectual ambition of nineteenth-century American fiction.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which statement best distinguishes the realism of Mark Twain from that of Henry James?
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Explanation:
• Twain grounds realism in regional speech, travel, social satire and the violence of frontier and river communities.
• James develops realism through subtle shifts in perception, moral judgement and international cultural encounters.
• Both writers analyse American identity, but they use different settings and narrative methods.
• Option B accurately distinguishes their dominant realist techniques.
• James develops realism through subtle shifts in perception, moral judgement and international cultural encounters.
• Both writers analyse American identity, but they use different settings and narrative methods.
• Option B accurately distinguishes their dominant realist techniques.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated critical statement best explains the emergence of nineteenth-century American fiction represented in this topic?
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Explanation:
• Hawthorne transforms Puritan history into symbolic fiction about guilt, authority and identity.
• Melville turns the whaling voyage into an expansive investigation of knowledge, obsession and metaphysical uncertainty.
• Twain creates a vernacular frontier narrative that confronts slavery, racism and social hypocrisy.
• James develops psychological realism and the international theme to test American identity through cultural encounter.
• Option C therefore provides the most comprehensive account of the emergence of American fiction.
• Melville turns the whaling voyage into an expansive investigation of knowledge, obsession and metaphysical uncertainty.
• Twain creates a vernacular frontier narrative that confronts slavery, racism and social hypocrisy.
• James develops psychological realism and the international theme to test American identity through cultural encounter.
• Option C therefore provides the most comprehensive account of the emergence of American fiction.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. Adultery సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Seventeenth-century Puritan Boston సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. He is her husband సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: A. Herman Melville సమాధానం: A.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: B. Ishmael సమాధానం: B.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Captain Ahab సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: C. It supports multiple and conflicting interpretations సమాధానం: C.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: A. 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a సమాధానం: A.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: B. The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Daisy Miller, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn సమాధానం: B.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Mark Twain సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: C. To escape enslavement and secure freedom సమాధానం: C.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. It provides a route of escape while exposing the contradictions of American society సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: B. First-person narration shaped by regional vernacular speech సమాధానం: B.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: D. The Portrait of a Lady సమాధానం: D.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. Isabel Archer సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: B. The organization of events through a character's centre of consciousness సమాధానం: B.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. Encounters between Americans and Europeans with contrasting cultural assumptions సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. The Portrait of a Lady — Captain Ahab సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: D. 1, 2, 3 and 4 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: A. Both use dense symbolism to investigate moral and metaphysical uncertainty సమాధానం: A.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. Twain emphasizes vernacular voice and frontier society, while James emphasizes perception and psychological complexity సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. It develops distinctive symbolic, vernacular and psychological forms for examining religion, race, national space and cultural identity సమాధానం: C.