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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Who founded The Tatler?
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Explanation:
• Richard Steele founded The Tatler in 1709.
• He wrote under the persona of Isaac Bickerstaff and later received important contributions from Joseph Addison.
• The periodical combined news, social observation, moral reflection and literary commentary.
• Addison was a major contributor, but he was not the original founder.
• He wrote under the persona of Isaac Bickerstaff and later received important contributions from Joseph Addison.
• The periodical combined news, social observation, moral reflection and literary commentary.
• Addison was a major contributor, but he was not the original founder.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Which pair is most closely associated with the founding and development of The Spectator?
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Explanation:
• Joseph Addison and Richard Steele jointly established The Spectator in 1711.
• Their essays addressed manners, taste, morality, conversation and urban social life.
• The periodical helped consolidate the English periodical essay as a major prose form.
• The other pairs belong to different literary or intellectual contexts.
• Their essays addressed manners, taste, morality, conversation and urban social life.
• The periodical helped consolidate the English periodical essay as a major prose form.
• The other pairs belong to different literary or intellectual contexts.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Under which pseudonymous persona were many papers in The Tatler presented?
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Explanation:
• Isaac Bickerstaff is the persona associated with The Tatler.
• Steele adopted the name partly from an earlier satirical creation popularized by Jonathan Swift.
• The fictional editor allowed the paper to comment on society with wit and distance.
• Mr Spectator belongs to The Spectator, while Lemuel Gulliver belongs to Gulliver's Travels.
• Steele adopted the name partly from an earlier satirical creation popularized by Jonathan Swift.
• The fictional editor allowed the paper to comment on society with wit and distance.
• Mr Spectator belongs to The Spectator, while Lemuel Gulliver belongs to Gulliver's Travels.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
What is the principal narrative role of Mr Spectator in The Spectator?
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Explanation:
• Mr Spectator is represented as a reserved observer of social life.
• His position allows the periodical to examine clubs, coffee-houses, theatres, households and urban behaviour.
• The persona creates continuity across individual essays.
• He is neither a ruler, a landlord nor a voyage narrator.
• His position allows the periodical to examine clubs, coffee-houses, theatres, households and urban behaviour.
• The persona creates continuity across individual essays.
• He is neither a ruler, a landlord nor a voyage narrator.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which statement best describes the main social purpose of Addison and Steele's periodical essays?
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Explanation:
• Addison and Steele sought to improve manners, taste and moral conduct through accessible prose.
• Their essays brought ethical and literary discussion into the everyday world of conversation and sociability.
• The periodical form addressed a broadening reading public rather than only scholars or courtiers.
• Their purpose was therefore social and moral refinement, not literary exclusion.
• Their essays brought ethical and literary discussion into the everyday world of conversation and sociability.
• The periodical form addressed a broadening reading public rather than only scholars or courtiers.
• Their purpose was therefore social and moral refinement, not literary exclusion.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Why were coffee-houses important to the culture represented by The Tatler and The Spectator?
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Explanation:
• Coffee-houses were major centres of sociability in early eighteenth-century urban life.
• Readers encountered newspapers, periodicals, political debate, commercial information and literary conversation there.
• The Tatler and The Spectator both drew subjects and audiences from this environment.
• Coffee-houses therefore supported the growth of the public sphere and the reading public.
• Readers encountered newspapers, periodicals, political debate, commercial information and literary conversation there.
• The Tatler and The Spectator both drew subjects and audiences from this environment.
• Coffee-houses therefore supported the growth of the public sphere and the reading public.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Consider the following statements.
Statement I: The Tatler was normally published three times a week.
Statement II: The original series of The Spectator was normally published daily except on Sundays.
Statement I: The Tatler was normally published three times a week.
Statement II: The original series of The Spectator was normally published daily except on Sundays.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because The Tatler normally appeared on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
• Statement II is correct because the original series of The Spectator normally appeared every day except Sunday.
• These publication rhythms helped the essays become part of readers' regular urban routines.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
• Statement II is correct because the original series of The Spectator normally appeared every day except Sunday.
• These publication rhythms helped the essays become part of readers' regular urban routines.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Match List I with List II according to the editorial scheme announced in The Tatler.
List I
1. White's
2. Will's
3. The Grecian
4. St James's
List II
a. Poetry
b. Learning
c. Gallantry, pleasure and entertainment
d. Foreign and domestic news
List I
1. White's
2. Will's
3. The Grecian
4. St James's
List II
a. Poetry
b. Learning
c. Gallantry, pleasure and entertainment
d. Foreign and domestic news
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Explanation:
• White's is matched with gallantry, pleasure and entertainment.
• Will's is matched with poetry.
• The Grecian is matched with learning.
• St James's is matched with foreign and domestic news.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-c, 2-a, 3-b, 4-d.
• Will's is matched with poetry.
• The Grecian is matched with learning.
• St James's is matched with foreign and domestic news.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-c, 2-a, 3-b, 4-d.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Arrange the following events in chronological order.
1. The Tatler begins publication.
2. The Tatler ends publication.
3. The original series of The Spectator begins.
4. The later series of The Spectator appears.
1. The Tatler begins publication.
2. The Tatler ends publication.
3. The original series of The Spectator begins.
4. The later series of The Spectator appears.
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Explanation:
• The Tatler began publication in 1709.
• It ended in January 1711.
• The original series of The Spectator began in March 1711.
• Addison produced a later series of The Spectator in 1714.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• It ended in January 1711.
• The original series of The Spectator began in March 1711.
• Addison produced a later series of The Spectator in 1714.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which character in The Spectator is portrayed as an amiable country gentleman whose habits and opinions reveal both virtues and limitations of the landed gentry?
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Explanation:
• Sir Roger de Coverley is the country gentleman of the Spectator Club.
• He is presented with affection, humour and gentle irony.
• Through him, the essays explore rural life, social custom, eccentricity and traditional values.
• Will Honeycomb represents fashionable society, Sir Andrew Freeport commerce and Captain Sentry the military profession.
• He is presented with affection, humour and gentle irony.
• Through him, the essays explore rural life, social custom, eccentricity and traditional values.
• Will Honeycomb represents fashionable society, Sir Andrew Freeport commerce and Captain Sentry the military profession.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which quality is most characteristic of Addison's prose style in The Spectator?
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Explanation:
• Addison's prose is known for lucidity, balance, urbanity and restrained wit.
• His sentences often appear conversational while remaining carefully shaped.
• This style made moral and literary reflection accessible to a broad readership.
• It differs from violent invective, obscurity and highly technical abstraction.
• His sentences often appear conversational while remaining carefully shaped.
• This style made moral and literary reflection accessible to a broad readership.
• It differs from violent invective, obscurity and highly technical abstraction.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which description best distinguishes Steele's periodical style from Addison's?
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Explanation:
• Steele's essays often display warmth, immediacy and personal engagement.
• He frequently writes about domestic affection, friendship, conduct and everyday feeling.
• Addison is usually considered more polished and formally balanced, though the two styles overlap.
• Steele did not avoid moral subjects or social observation.
• He frequently writes about domestic affection, friendship, conduct and everyday feeling.
• Addison is usually considered more polished and formally balanced, though the two styles overlap.
• Steele did not avoid moral subjects or social observation.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Which definition best describes the periodical essay?
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Explanation:
• A periodical essay is a relatively short prose composition published in a recurring series.
• It typically comments on manners, morality, literature, taste, conversation and public life.
• Its regular publication created a sustained relationship with readers.
• It differs from a single-volume treatise, dramatic monologue and private diary.
• It typically comments on manners, morality, literature, taste, conversation and public life.
• Its regular publication created a sustained relationship with readers.
• It differs from a single-volume treatise, dramatic monologue and private diary.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which development most directly helped create the audience for eighteenth-century periodical essays?
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Explanation:
• The eighteenth-century reading public expanded through print commerce, literacy, urban growth and new habits of sociability.
• Coffee-houses, clubs and circulating print connected writers with readers.
• The periodical essay suited readers seeking brief, varied and topical prose.
• The form depended on expanding rather than shrinking access to print.
• Coffee-houses, clubs and circulating print connected writers with readers.
• The periodical essay suited readers seeking brief, varied and topical prose.
• The form depended on expanding rather than shrinking access to print.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Who wrote A Modest Proposal?
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Explanation:
• Jonathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal, published in 1729.
• The pamphlet uses a shocking fictional proposal to expose social and political cruelty.
• Swift's controlled irony forces readers to confront the dehumanization of the Irish poor.
• Addison and Steele are chiefly associated with periodical essays, while Pope was primarily a poet and satirist.
• The pamphlet uses a shocking fictional proposal to expose social and political cruelty.
• Swift's controlled irony forces readers to confront the dehumanization of the Irish poor.
• Addison and Steele are chiefly associated with periodical essays, while Pope was primarily a poet and satirist.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
In which year was A Modest Proposal first published?
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Explanation:
• A Modest Proposal was published in 1729.
• It belongs to Swift's later satirical writing on Irish conditions.
• The dates 1709 and 1711 correspond to the beginnings of The Tatler and The Spectator respectively.
• The publication date is important for locating the pamphlet within eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish politics.
• It belongs to Swift's later satirical writing on Irish conditions.
• The dates 1709 and 1711 correspond to the beginnings of The Tatler and The Spectator respectively.
• The publication date is important for locating the pamphlet within eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish politics.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
What does the speaker of A Modest Proposal recommend as a supposed solution to Irish poverty?
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Explanation:
• The speaker grotesquely proposes that poor Irish infants be sold and eaten.
• Swift does not endorse the proposal; its horror exposes the brutality of economic reasoning detached from humanity.
• The exaggerated scheme reveals how the poor are already being treated as objects or commodities.
• The satire depends on recognizing the gap between the speaker's calm tone and the proposal's moral monstrosity.
• Swift does not endorse the proposal; its horror exposes the brutality of economic reasoning detached from humanity.
• The exaggerated scheme reveals how the poor are already being treated as objects or commodities.
• The satire depends on recognizing the gap between the speaker's calm tone and the proposal's moral monstrosity.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which form of irony is central to A Modest Proposal?
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Explanation:
• Swift adopts a cool, calculating voice that appears reasonable while advancing an abhorrent scheme.
• Readers must infer that the text condemns rather than supports the attitudes expressed by the speaker.
• This sustained discrepancy between surface argument and authorial purpose creates powerful irony.
• The narrator's calmness intensifies the satire instead of explaining it directly.
• Readers must infer that the text condemns rather than supports the attitudes expressed by the speaker.
• This sustained discrepancy between surface argument and authorial purpose creates powerful irony.
• The narrator's calmness intensifies the satire instead of explaining it directly.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which target is most central to the social criticism in A Modest Proposal?
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Explanation:
• Swift attacks the dehumanizing treatment of the Irish poor.
• The satire targets absentee landlords, exploitative policies, English indifference and cold economic schemes.
• The proposal turns existing social cruelty into a horrifyingly literal commercial plan.
• Classical mythology, coffee-houses and architecture are not the central targets.
• The satire targets absentee landlords, exploitative policies, English indifference and cold economic schemes.
• The proposal turns existing social cruelty into a horrifyingly literal commercial plan.
• Classical mythology, coffee-houses and architecture are not the central targets.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Assertion: The shocking proposal in A Modest Proposal should not be read as Swift's literal recommendation.
Reason: Swift constructs an economically calculating speaker whose moral blindness exposes the inhumanity of contemporary social attitudes.
Reason: Swift constructs an economically calculating speaker whose moral blindness exposes the inhumanity of contemporary social attitudes.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Swift's proposal is a satirical fiction, not a literal policy recommendation.
• The Reason is correct because the speaker's detached calculations reveal a profound lack of compassion.
• By imitating the language of economic planning, Swift exposes the moral violence hidden within supposedly rational discourse.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because the speaker's detached calculations reveal a profound lack of compassion.
• By imitating the language of economic planning, Swift exposes the moral violence hidden within supposedly rational discourse.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Consider the following statements about A Modest Proposal.
1. The speaker uses numerical calculations to support the proposal.
2. The tone is largely calm and methodical.
3. The proposal is intended as a sincere programme for reform.
4. The satire criticizes the reduction of human beings to economic units.
1. The speaker uses numerical calculations to support the proposal.
2. The tone is largely calm and methodical.
3. The proposal is intended as a sincere programme for reform.
4. The satire criticizes the reduction of human beings to economic units.
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Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because the speaker uses statistics and calculations to create an appearance of practicality.
• Statement 2 is correct because the calm, methodical tone intensifies the horror.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because the proposal is satirical rather than sincere.
• Statement 4 is correct because the pamphlet exposes the dehumanizing logic that treats people as commodities.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because the calm, methodical tone intensifies the horror.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because the proposal is satirical rather than sincere.
• Statement 4 is correct because the pamphlet exposes the dehumanizing logic that treats people as commodities.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• Coffee-house culture encouraged rather than rejected news, reading and public discussion.
• Irony can arise from a gap between surface meaning and intended significance.
• Satire uses devices such as wit, ridicule, parody and exaggeration to criticize folly or injustice.
• The periodical essay is correctly identified as a recurring short prose form addressed to contemporary readers.
• Irony can arise from a gap between surface meaning and intended significance.
• Satire uses devices such as wit, ridicule, parody and exaggeration to criticize folly or injustice.
• The periodical essay is correctly identified as a recurring short prose form addressed to contemporary readers.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which comparative statement about Addison, Steele and Swift is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• Addison and Steele use the periodical essay to examine manners, taste, morality and social behaviour.
• Swift's A Modest Proposal adopts a more savage satirical method based on sustained irony and grotesque exaggeration.
• All three participate in eighteenth-century public debate, but their tones and strategies differ.
• The correct comparison recognizes both their shared social concern and their distinct methods.
• Swift's A Modest Proposal adopts a more savage satirical method based on sustained irony and grotesque exaggeration.
• All three participate in eighteenth-century public debate, but their tones and strategies differ.
• The correct comparison recognizes both their shared social concern and their distinct methods.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
A writer invents a calm public-minded persona who proposes a morally monstrous policy through statistics and economic logic. Which interpretive approach is most appropriate?
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Explanation:
• Satirical prose often separates the author's moral position from the voice of an invented speaker.
• In A Modest Proposal, rational tone and numerical calculation conflict with the proposal's obvious cruelty.
• The gap between tone and ethical meaning is the primary source of irony.
• A literal reading would miss the text's social criticism.
• In A Modest Proposal, rational tone and numerical calculation conflict with the proposal's obvious cruelty.
• The gap between tone and ethical meaning is the primary source of irony.
• A literal reading would miss the text's social criticism.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which statement best explains the historical importance of The Tatler, The Spectator and A Modest Proposal taken together?
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Explanation:
• The Tatler and The Spectator helped create a regular prose conversation with an expanding reading public.
• They examined manners, taste, sociability and moral conduct through accessible essays.
• A Modest Proposal shows how pamphlet satire could intervene forcefully in political and economic debate.
• Together, the works demonstrate the public, topical and socially critical power of eighteenth-century prose.
• They examined manners, taste, sociability and moral conduct through accessible essays.
• A Modest Proposal shows how pamphlet satire could intervene forcefully in political and economic debate.
• Together, the works demonstrate the public, topical and socially critical power of eighteenth-century prose.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Richard Steele సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: B. Isaac Bickerstaff సమాధానం: B.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: A. He is a silent observer who reports on society and manners. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: C. To refine manners and make moral reflection attractive to ordinary readers సమాధానం: C.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: D. They functioned as centres of news, discussion, reading and social exchange. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. 1-c, 2-a, 3-b, 4-d సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: D. Sir Roger de Coverley సమాధానం: D.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: B. Balanced clarity, controlled wit and graceful ease సమాధానం: B.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: A. Steele is generally more personal, impulsive and emotionally direct. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: B. A short prose piece issued at regular intervals and addressing contemporary social, moral or literary concerns సమాధానం: B.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: C. The growth of print, urban sociability and a commercially active middle-class readership సమాధానం: C.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. Jonathan Swift సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. 1729 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: C. Selling and consuming infants as food సమాధానం: C.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. The apparently rational proposal is designed to reveal the cruelty of the attitudes it imitates. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: D. The indifference of political authorities, landlords and economic planners to Irish suffering సమాధానం: D.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: D. Coffee-house culture — complete withdrawal from news and public discussion సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: B. Addison and Steele refine manners through periodical observation, while Swift uses extreme irony to expose systemic cruelty. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: C. Analyse the gap between the persona's rational tone and the ethical horror of the proposal. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. They show how eighteenth-century prose addressed a growing public through observation, moral commentary and satire. సమాధానం: A.