Please keep at least one language enabled. || కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Jean Rhys wrote Wide Sargasso Sea.
• The novel was published in 1966.
• It reimagines the Caribbean history of the woman identified as Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre.
• Rhys uses colonial setting, fractured identity and competing narration to challenge the earlier English novel.
• The novel was published in 1966.
• It reimagines the Caribbean history of the woman identified as Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre.
• Rhys uses colonial setting, fractured identity and competing narration to challenge the earlier English novel.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Who is the principal female protagonist of Wide Sargasso Sea?
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Explanation:
• Antoinette Cosway is the principal female protagonist of Wide Sargasso Sea.
• She grows up in the Caribbean within a society divided by race, class and colonial history.
• Her husband later renames her Bertha, treating control over naming as control over identity.
• Christophine is an important Martinican servant and a powerful critic of patriarchal authority.
• She grows up in the Caribbean within a society divided by race, class and colonial history.
• Her husband later renames her Bertha, treating control over naming as control over identity.
• Christophine is an important Martinican servant and a powerful critic of patriarchal authority.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Wide Sargasso Sea is most directly written in dialogue with which earlier novel?
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Explanation:
• Wide Sargasso Sea responds directly to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
• Rhys gives history, voice and cultural context to the figure represented as Bertha Mason in Brontë's novel.
• The later novel questions imperial, racial and gender assumptions embedded in the earlier narrative.
• This intertextual revision is central to postcolonial readings of Rhys's work.
• Rhys gives history, voice and cultural context to the figure represented as Bertha Mason in Brontë's novel.
• The later novel questions imperial, racial and gender assumptions embedded in the earlier narrative.
• This intertextual revision is central to postcolonial readings of Rhys's work.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which narrative feature is central to Wide Sargasso Sea?
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Explanation:
• Wide Sargasso Sea shifts between Antoinette's perspective and that of her English husband.
• These competing accounts prevent readers from accepting one final and fully authoritative version of events.
• The divided narration reflects mistrust, cultural conflict and psychological fragmentation.
• The form also restores subjectivity to a woman marginalized in Jane Eyre.
• These competing accounts prevent readers from accepting one final and fully authoritative version of events.
• The divided narration reflects mistrust, cultural conflict and psychological fragmentation.
• The form also restores subjectivity to a woman marginalized in Jane Eyre.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which definition best describes creolization in Caribbean literary studies?
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Explanation:
• Creolization refers to the formation of new cultural and linguistic practices through historical contact and mixture.
• In the Caribbean, it is connected with colonialism, slavery, migration and the interaction of African, European, Asian and Indigenous traditions.
• Creolization does not mean that difference disappears into a single uniform identity.
• Writers may use creolized language to resist the authority of standardized colonial English.
• In the Caribbean, it is connected with colonialism, slavery, migration and the interaction of African, European, Asian and Indigenous traditions.
• Creolization does not mean that difference disappears into a single uniform identity.
• Writers may use creolized language to resist the authority of standardized colonial English.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Statement I: Wide Sargasso Sea connects Antoinette's personal crisis with colonial and racial conflict in the Caribbean. Statement II: The novel presents naming as unrelated to power or identity. Choose the correct answer.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Antoinette's instability develops within a world shaped by emancipation, racial hostility and colonial hierarchy.
• Statement II is incorrect because her husband's decision to rename her Bertha is an act of psychological and patriarchal control.
• Naming becomes a means of denying her history and redefining her according to an English narrative.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because her husband's decision to rename her Bertha is an act of psychological and patriarchal control.
• Naming becomes a means of denying her history and redefining her according to an English narrative.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Who wrote A House for Mr Biswas?
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Explanation:
• V. S. Naipaul wrote A House for Mr Biswas.
• The novel was published in 1961.
• It follows Mohun Biswas's lifelong struggle for dignity and independence in colonial Trinidad.
• The work connects family conflict with displacement, economic insecurity and the Indo-Caribbean experience.
• The novel was published in 1961.
• It follows Mohun Biswas's lifelong struggle for dignity and independence in colonial Trinidad.
• The work connects family conflict with displacement, economic insecurity and the Indo-Caribbean experience.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Who is the central protagonist of A House for Mr Biswas?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Mohun Biswas is the central protagonist of A House for Mr Biswas.
• He struggles against poverty, dependency and the dominance of the Tulsi family.
• His changing occupations reflect the insecurity of colonial Trinidadian life.
• Moses Aloetta belongs to The Lonely Londoners, Saladin Chamcha to The Satanic Verses and Karim Amir to The Buddha of Suburbia.
• He struggles against poverty, dependency and the dominance of the Tulsi family.
• His changing occupations reflect the insecurity of colonial Trinidadian life.
• Moses Aloetta belongs to The Lonely Londoners, Saladin Chamcha to The Satanic Verses and Karim Amir to The Buddha of Suburbia.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
What does the house chiefly symbolize for Mr Biswas?
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Explanation:
• For Mr Biswas, possessing a house represents independence from the Tulsi household.
• It gives material form to his desire for dignity, privacy and self-definition.
• The house is imperfect, but its importance lies in the autonomy it provides.
• Naipaul connects this private aspiration with the instability of diasporic and colonial existence.
• It gives material form to his desire for dignity, privacy and self-definition.
• The house is imperfect, but its importance lies in the autonomy it provides.
• Naipaul connects this private aspiration with the instability of diasporic and colonial existence.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Who wrote The Lonely Londoners?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Sam Selvon wrote The Lonely Londoners.
• The novel was published in 1956.
• It depicts West Indian migrants attempting to build lives in postwar London.
• Selvon's innovative use of creolized narration gives communal and linguistic form to migrant experience.
• The novel was published in 1956.
• It depicts West Indian migrants attempting to build lives in postwar London.
• Selvon's innovative use of creolized narration gives communal and linguistic form to migrant experience.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which character is an experienced Trinidadian migrant who helps new arrivals in The Lonely Londoners?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Moses Aloetta is an experienced Trinidadian migrant living in London.
• He meets newcomers, offers advice and becomes a point of connection within the migrant community.
• His weariness and persistence embody both the loneliness and resilience of diasporic life.
• Galahad is a younger newcomer whose experiences reveal racial exclusion and urban adaptation.
• He meets newcomers, offers advice and becomes a point of connection within the migrant community.
• His weariness and persistence embody both the loneliness and resilience of diasporic life.
• Galahad is a younger newcomer whose experiences reveal racial exclusion and urban adaptation.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which formal feature is most distinctive in The Lonely Londoners?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Selvon extends Caribbean speech patterns beyond dialogue into the narrative voice itself.
• This creolized English challenges the dominance of standardized metropolitan language.
• The voice creates humour, intimacy and a sense of communal storytelling.
• Form and theme therefore work together to represent migrant life in London.
• This creolized English challenges the dominance of standardized metropolitan language.
• The voice creates humour, intimacy and a sense of communal storytelling.
• Form and theme therefore work together to represent migrant life in London.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which is the correct chronological order of first publication?
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Explanation:
• The Lonely Londoners was published in 1956.
• A House for Mr Biswas followed in 1961.
• Wide Sargasso Sea was published in 1966.
• The Buddha of Suburbia was published in 1990.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is The Lonely Londoners, A House for Mr Biswas, Wide Sargasso Sea and The Buddha of Suburbia.
• A House for Mr Biswas followed in 1961.
• Wide Sargasso Sea was published in 1966.
• The Buddha of Suburbia was published in 1990.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is The Lonely Londoners, A House for Mr Biswas, Wide Sargasso Sea and The Buddha of Suburbia.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which Salman Rushdie novel features the migrant figures Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha?
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Explanation:
• Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha are central characters in The Satanic Verses.
• The novel was published in 1988.
• Their transformations and migrations allow Rushdie to explore faith, cultural translation, identity and belonging.
• The work uses fantasy, satire and fragmented narration as postmodern techniques.
• The novel was published in 1988.
• Their transformations and migrations allow Rushdie to explore faith, cultural translation, identity and belonging.
• The work uses fantasy, satire and fragmented narration as postmodern techniques.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Which character in The Satanic Verses attempts to remake himself as thoroughly English?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Saladin Chamcha seeks to distance himself from India and fashion an English identity.
• His mimicry of Englishness does not protect him from racial hostility and exclusion.
• His transformation dramatizes the instability of assimilation and the persistence of cultural memory.
• Gibreel Farishta, by contrast, is a Bombay film star associated with religious visions and psychological crisis.
• His mimicry of Englishness does not protect him from racial hostility and exclusion.
• His transformation dramatizes the instability of assimilation and the persistence of cultural memory.
• Gibreel Farishta, by contrast, is a Bombay film star associated with religious visions and psychological crisis.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Who wrote Jasmine?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Bharati Mukherjee wrote Jasmine.
• The novel was published in 1989.
• It follows an Indian woman whose migration to the United States involves repeated changes of name and identity.
• The narrative explores violence, reinvention, assimilation and the instability of the migrant self.
• The novel was published in 1989.
• It follows an Indian woman whose migration to the United States involves repeated changes of name and identity.
• The narrative explores violence, reinvention, assimilation and the instability of the migrant self.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which feature of Jasmine most clearly represents the protagonist's changing diasporic identity?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The protagonist is known by names including Jyoti, Jasmine, Jase and Jane.
• Each name corresponds to a different location, relationship and imagined self.
• The changes represent agency and adaptation but also expose the pressures of displacement and reinvention.
• Mukherjee therefore presents identity as mobile rather than permanently fixed.
• Each name corresponds to a different location, relationship and imagined self.
• The changes represent agency and adaptation but also expose the pressures of displacement and reinvention.
• Mukherjee therefore presents identity as mobile rather than permanently fixed.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Who wrote The Namesake?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Jhumpa Lahiri wrote The Namesake.
• The novel was published in 2003.
• It follows the Ganguli family across migration, family history and second-generation identity in the United States.
• Names, food, language and domestic rituals become important markers of belonging.
• The novel was published in 2003.
• It follows the Ganguli family across migration, family history and second-generation identity in the United States.
• Names, food, language and domestic rituals become important markers of belonging.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Who is the second-generation protagonist of The Namesake?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Gogol Ganguli is the second-generation protagonist of The Namesake.
• He grows up in the United States as the child of Bengali immigrants Ashoke and Ashima.
• His discomfort with his name reflects a broader struggle involving inheritance, difference and self-definition.
• His development reveals that cultural belonging is negotiated rather than simply chosen.
• He grows up in the United States as the child of Bengali immigrants Ashoke and Ashima.
• His discomfort with his name reflects a broader struggle involving inheritance, difference and self-definition.
• His development reveals that cultural belonging is negotiated rather than simply chosen.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Who wrote The Buddha of Suburbia?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Hanif Kureishi wrote The Buddha of Suburbia.
• The novel was published in 1990.
• It follows Karim Amir, a mixed-race young man growing up in suburban and metropolitan London.
• The novel combines comedy with questions of race, sexuality, performance and changing British identity.
• The novel was published in 1990.
• It follows Karim Amir, a mixed-race young man growing up in suburban and metropolitan London.
• The novel combines comedy with questions of race, sexuality, performance and changing British identity.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Match List I with List II. List I: 1. Wide Sargasso Sea 2. The Lonely Londoners 3. The Namesake 4. The Buddha of Suburbia. List II: a. Karim Amir b. Moses Aloetta c. Antoinette Cosway d. Gogol Ganguli.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Wide Sargasso Sea matches Antoinette Cosway, whose identity is reshaped by colonial and patriarchal power.
• The Lonely Londoners matches Moses Aloetta, the experienced Trinidadian migrant in London.
• The Namesake matches Gogol Ganguli, who negotiates second-generation Bengali American identity.
• The Buddha of Suburbia matches Karim Amir, a mixed-race protagonist in suburban London.
• Thus, the correct code is 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a.
• The Lonely Londoners matches Moses Aloetta, the experienced Trinidadian migrant in London.
• The Namesake matches Gogol Ganguli, who negotiates second-generation Bengali American identity.
• The Buddha of Suburbia matches Karim Amir, a mixed-race protagonist in suburban London.
• Thus, the correct code is 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Namesake was written by Jhumpa Lahiri, not Bharati Mukherjee.
• Jean Rhys wrote Wide Sargasso Sea.
• Sam Selvon wrote The Lonely Londoners.
• Hanif Kureishi wrote The Buddha of Suburbia.
• Therefore, Bharati Mukherjee — The Namesake is the incorrectly matched pair.
• Jean Rhys wrote Wide Sargasso Sea.
• Sam Selvon wrote The Lonely Londoners.
• Hanif Kureishi wrote The Buddha of Suburbia.
• Therefore, Bharati Mukherjee — The Namesake is the incorrectly matched pair.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Assertion: Transnational fiction often challenges the idea that identity belongs naturally to only one nation. Reason: Its characters may sustain relationships, memories and cultural practices across several countries. Choose the correct answer.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because transnational fiction represents identity through movement and connections that exceed national borders.
• The Reason is correct because migrants often maintain family ties, memories, languages and cultural practices across countries.
• These simultaneous connections directly challenge the assumption that belonging must be singular and territorially fixed.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because migrants often maintain family ties, memories, languages and cultural practices across countries.
• These simultaneous connections directly challenge the assumption that belonging must be singular and territorially fixed.
• Therefore, both are correct and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Consider the following statements: 1. Exile may involve physical displacement and emotional estrangement from a homeland. 2. Hybridity refers to identities formed through cultural interaction rather than pure separation. 3. Second-generation identity often involves negotiation between family inheritance and the society of upbringing. 4. Diasporic fiction always presents return to the homeland as a complete solution to conflict. Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because exile can produce both geographical separation and psychological alienation.
• Statement 2 is correct because hybridity describes identities and practices formed through cultural contact and mixture.
• Statement 3 is correct because second-generation figures often negotiate parental traditions and the norms of the country where they grow up.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because return may be impossible, disappointing or incapable of resolving divided belonging.
• Therefore, 1, 2 and 3 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because hybridity describes identities and practices formed through cultural contact and mixture.
• Statement 3 is correct because second-generation figures often negotiate parental traditions and the norms of the country where they grow up.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because return may be impossible, disappointing or incapable of resolving divided belonging.
• Therefore, 1, 2 and 3 only are correct.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated critical statement best describes Caribbean and diasporic fiction represented in this topic?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Rhys revises colonial literary history through competing Caribbean perspectives.
• Naipaul and Selvon examine Indo-Caribbean and West Indian displacement through different narrative styles.
• Rushdie, Mukherjee, Lahiri and Kureishi represent migration, reinvention and second-generation identity across national spaces.
• Creolization, hybridity and transnationalism reveal belonging as contested, relational and historically shaped.
• Option A therefore provides the most comprehensive account of the topic.
• Naipaul and Selvon examine Indo-Caribbean and West Indian displacement through different narrative styles.
• Rushdie, Mukherjee, Lahiri and Kureishi represent migration, reinvention and second-generation identity across national spaces.
• Creolization, hybridity and transnationalism reveal belonging as contested, relational and historically shaped.
• Option A therefore provides the most comprehensive account of the topic.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Jean Rhys సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. Antoinette Cosway సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Jane Eyre సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Shifting first-person perspectives that produce competing accounts సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. The creation of new cultural and linguistic forms through contact and mixture 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: B. V. S. Naipaul సమాధానం: B.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Mohun Biswas సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. Personal autonomy and a secure identity సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. Sam Selvon సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: B. Moses Aloetta సమాధానం: B.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. A creolized narrative voice shaped by Caribbean speech rhythms సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: D. The Lonely Londoners, A House for Mr Biswas, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Buddha of Suburbia సమాధానం: D.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. The Satanic Verses సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: B. Saladin Chamcha సమాధానం: B.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: A. Bharati Mukherjee సమాధానం: A.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: D. Her adoption of several names in different phases of her life సమాధానం: D.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. Jhumpa Lahiri సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: B. Gogol Ganguli సమాధానం: B.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: A. Hanif Kureishi సమాధానం: A.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: D. 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a సమాధానం: D.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: C. Bharati Mukherjee — The Namesake సమాధానం: C.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: C. 1, 2 and 3 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. It uses revised histories, creolized language and mobile identities to examine migration, exile, racial difference and transnational belonging సమాధానం: A.