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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which description best defines the modern literary essay?
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Explanation:
• The modern essay is a flexible prose form that can combine reflection, argument, observation and personal experience.
• It may address politics, language, gender, culture or intellectual questions.
• Its structure can be exploratory rather than mechanically systematic.
• It is neither confined to fiction nor restricted to technical reporting.
• It may address politics, language, gender, culture or intellectual questions.
• Its structure can be exploratory rather than mechanically systematic.
• It is neither confined to fiction nor restricted to technical reporting.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
In which year was Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own first published?
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Explanation:
• A Room of One's Own was first published in 1929.
• It developed from lectures Woolf delivered at women's colleges at Cambridge in 1928.
• The essay examines the material and cultural conditions required for women to write.
• Its publication places it among the major modernist works of interwar British prose.
• It developed from lectures Woolf delivered at women's colleges at Cambridge in 1928.
• The essay examines the material and cultural conditions required for women to write.
• Its publication places it among the major modernist works of interwar British prose.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
According to A Room of One's Own, which two material conditions are especially necessary for a woman who wishes to write fiction?
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Explanation:
• Woolf argues that a woman needs money and a room of her own in order to write fiction.
• The private room represents freedom from interruption and domestic control.
• The independent income represents economic security and intellectual autonomy.
• Her argument connects literary production with material conditions rather than talent alone.
• The private room represents freedom from interruption and domestic control.
• The independent income represents economic security and intellectual autonomy.
• Her argument connects literary production with material conditions rather than talent alone.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Who is Judith Shakespeare in A Room of One's Own?
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Explanation:
• Judith Shakespeare is Woolf's fictional creation rather than a historical person.
• She is imagined as possessing genius comparable to William Shakespeare's.
• Social restrictions deny her education, theatrical opportunity and artistic independence.
• Her tragic story illustrates how patriarchal conditions can suppress female talent.
• She is imagined as possessing genius comparable to William Shakespeare's.
• Social restrictions deny her education, theatrical opportunity and artistic independence.
• Her tragic story illustrates how patriarchal conditions can suppress female talent.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
What is the principal function of the invented narrator and changing names in A Room of One's Own?
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Explanation:
• Woolf uses a shifting and partly fictionalized narrator to combine experience, speculation and critical argument.
• The strategy prevents the essay from becoming a simple factual autobiography.
• It also demonstrates how fiction can reveal social truths that statistics alone may not express.
• The narrator's mobility is part of the essay's experimental form.
• The strategy prevents the essay from becoming a simple factual autobiography.
• It also demonstrates how fiction can reveal social truths that statistics alone may not express.
• The narrator's mobility is part of the essay's experimental form.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Consider the following statements about A Room of One's Own.
Statement I: Woolf links literary achievement with access to education, privacy and economic independence.
Statement II: Woolf argues that biological incapacity is the main reason for the historical scarcity of women writers.
Statement I: Woolf links literary achievement with access to education, privacy and economic independence.
Statement II: Woolf argues that biological incapacity is the main reason for the historical scarcity of women writers.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Woolf repeatedly connects authorship with education, income, leisure and private space.
• Statement II is incorrect because she rejects biological inferiority as the explanation for women's exclusion.
• Her argument emphasizes institutional, economic and cultural barriers.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because she rejects biological inferiority as the explanation for women's exclusion.
• Her argument emphasizes institutional, economic and cultural barriers.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
In which colonial setting does George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant take place?
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Explanation:
• Shooting an Elephant is set in colonial Burma, now Myanmar.
• Orwell draws on his experience as an officer in the Indian Imperial Police.
• The essay examines the pressures placed upon both rulers and ruled by imperial power.
• Kenya, India and Ceylon are not the immediate setting of the narrated incident.
• Orwell draws on his experience as an officer in the Indian Imperial Police.
• The essay examines the pressures placed upon both rulers and ruled by imperial power.
• Kenya, India and Ceylon are not the immediate setting of the narrated incident.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Why does the narrator ultimately shoot the elephant in Shooting an Elephant?
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Explanation:
• The narrator recognizes that the elephant has become calm and need not be killed immediately.
• Nevertheless, the assembled crowd expects the imperial officer to act decisively.
• He shoots chiefly because he fears humiliation and the loss of colonial prestige.
• The episode shows how the ruler becomes trapped by the role he performs.
• Nevertheless, the assembled crowd expects the imperial officer to act decisively.
• He shoots chiefly because he fears humiliation and the loss of colonial prestige.
• The episode shows how the ruler becomes trapped by the role he performs.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which paradox lies at the centre of Shooting an Elephant?
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Explanation:
• The narrator holds official authority, yet his behaviour is determined by the crowd's expectations.
• Imperial power requires him to maintain an image of certainty and dominance.
• He therefore acts against his own judgement in order to preserve that image.
• The essay exposes empire as a system that deforms the freedom of both oppressor and oppressed.
• Imperial power requires him to maintain an image of certainty and dominance.
• He therefore acts against his own judgement in order to preserve that image.
• The essay exposes empire as a system that deforms the freedom of both oppressor and oppressed.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Politics and the English Language was first published in 1946 in which periodical?
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Explanation:
• Politics and the English Language first appeared in Horizon in 1946.
• The essay examines the relation between careless language and corrupt political thought.
• Orwell criticizes habits that make prose vague, inflated and evasive.
• The other periodicals were important literary or political journals but were not its first venue.
• The essay examines the relation between careless language and corrupt political thought.
• Orwell criticizes habits that make prose vague, inflated and evasive.
• The other periodicals were important literary or political journals but were not its first venue.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which of the following is not one of Orwell's major categories of bad prose in Politics and the English Language?
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Explanation:
• Orwell identifies dying metaphors, operators or verbal false limbs, pretentious diction and meaningless words as major faults.
• Organic unity is not one of his listed categories of bad prose.
• His concern is that stale or inflated language conceals thought instead of clarifying it.
• The categories support his broader critique of political manipulation.
• Organic unity is not one of his listed categories of bad prose.
• His concern is that stale or inflated language conceals thought instead of clarifying it.
• The categories support his broader critique of political manipulation.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
What is the main purpose of Orwell's six rules for clear writing?
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Explanation:
• Orwell's rules encourage writers to prefer clarity, brevity and concrete expression.
• They warn against stale metaphors, unnecessary words, passive constructions and jargon.
• Orwell does not treat the rules as an inflexible mechanical system.
• His final principle allows a rule to be broken when obedience would produce ugly or inhuman prose.
• They warn against stale metaphors, unnecessary words, passive constructions and jargon.
• Orwell does not treat the rules as an inflexible mechanical system.
• His final principle allows a rule to be broken when obedience would produce ugly or inhuman prose.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Assertion: Orwell links political corruption with linguistic corruption.
Reason: Euphemism, abstraction and inflated phrasing can conceal violence and make indefensible policies appear acceptable.
Reason: Euphemism, abstraction and inflated phrasing can conceal violence and make indefensible policies appear acceptable.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Orwell argues that political language often becomes vague, deceptive and manipulative.
• The Reason is correct because euphemism and abstraction can hide the human consequences of political action.
• Such language makes cruelty appear technical, necessary or respectable.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because euphemism and abstraction can hide the human consequences of political action.
• Such language makes cruelty appear technical, necessary or respectable.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which description best characterizes Bertrand Russell's essayistic prose?
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Explanation:
• Russell's prose is widely noted for lucidity, logical organization, wit and intellectual scepticism.
• He often explains difficult philosophical or social questions in accessible language.
• His arguments challenge dogmatism while appealing to evidence and reason.
• The style differs from obscurity, confession and prophetic biblical rhetoric.
• He often explains difficult philosophical or social questions in accessible language.
• His arguments challenge dogmatism while appealing to evidence and reason.
• The style differs from obscurity, confession and prophetic biblical rhetoric.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
What central argument does Russell advance in In Praise of Idleness?
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Explanation:
• Russell questions the belief that constant labour is automatically virtuous.
• He argues that technological productivity could permit shorter working hours.
• Properly used leisure could encourage education, creativity and humane enjoyment.
• The essay criticizes economic arrangements that produce both overwork and unemployment.
• He argues that technological productivity could permit shorter working hours.
• Properly used leisure could encourage education, creativity and humane enjoyment.
• The essay criticizes economic arrangements that produce both overwork and unemployment.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which position is most consistent with Russell's intellectual essays?
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Explanation:
• Russell consistently defends reasoned inquiry and resistance to dogmatism.
• He regards certainty without sufficient evidence as intellectually dangerous.
• His essays often join scepticism with a defence of freedom and humane social organization.
• Rational revision is therefore more consistent with his method than blind authority.
• He regards certainty without sufficient evidence as intellectually dangerous.
• His essays often join scepticism with a defence of freedom and humane social organization.
• Rational revision is therefore more consistent with his method than blind authority.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
In Tradition and the Individual Talent, what does T.S. Eliot mean by the historical sense?
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Explanation:
• Eliot's historical sense involves perceiving both the distance of the past and its continuing presence.
• A new work enters into relation with the existing order of literature.
• Tradition is therefore active and continually reorganized rather than mechanically inherited.
• Eliot does not reduce literary history to dates or authorial biography.
• A new work enters into relation with the existing order of literature.
• Tradition is therefore active and continually reorganized rather than mechanically inherited.
• Eliot does not reduce literary history to dates or authorial biography.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which principle is central to Eliot's account of poetic creation in Tradition and the Individual Talent?
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Explanation:
• Eliot argues that poetry is not simply the direct expression of the poet's private personality.
• The poet's mind transforms feelings and experiences into an artistic structure.
• His catalytic analogy explains how creation may occur without the personality remaining unchanged in the product.
• The principle is commonly described as the impersonality of poetry.
• The poet's mind transforms feelings and experiences into an artistic structure.
• His catalytic analogy explains how creation may occur without the personality remaining unchanged in the product.
• The principle is commonly described as the impersonality of poetry.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
With which essay by Eliot is the concept of the objective correlative most closely associated?
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Explanation:
• Eliot develops the concept of the objective correlative in Hamlet and His Problems.
• The term refers to a set of objects, a situation or a chain of events capable of evoking a particular emotion.
• Eliot uses the concept while criticizing what he sees as the inadequate dramatic expression of Hamlet's emotion.
• The other essays address tradition, metaphysical poetry and classicism.
• The term refers to a set of objects, a situation or a chain of events capable of evoking a particular emotion.
• Eliot uses the concept while criticizing what he sees as the inadequate dramatic expression of Hamlet's emotion.
• The other essays address tradition, metaphysical poetry and classicism.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which concept does Eliot use to describe a historical separation of thought and feeling after the seventeenth century?
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Explanation:
• Eliot uses dissociation of sensibility in his discussion of the metaphysical poets.
• He argues that earlier poets could experience thought and feeling as a unified activity.
• Later poetic traditions increasingly separated intellectual and emotional experience.
• Negative capability belongs to Keats, while the two fallacies are associated with New Criticism.
• He argues that earlier poets could experience thought and feeling as a unified activity.
• Later poetic traditions increasingly separated intellectual and emotional experience.
• Negative capability belongs to Keats, while the two fallacies are associated with New Criticism.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
What is a central concern of Eliot's Notes Towards the Definition of Culture?
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Explanation:
• Eliot treats culture as a complex way of life rather than as artistic refinement alone.
• He examines its connections with religion, class, education, family and social continuity.
• The work resists reducing culture to either private taste or administrative planning.
• It belongs to Eliot's broader role as a social and cultural critic.
• He examines its connections with religion, class, education, family and social continuity.
• The work resists reducing culture to either private taste or administrative planning.
• It belongs to Eliot's broader role as a social and cultural critic.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Virginia Woolf
2. George Orwell
3. Bertrand Russell
4. T.S. Eliot
List II
a. In Praise of Idleness
b. A Room of One's Own
c. Tradition and the Individual Talent
d. Politics and the English Language
List I
1. Virginia Woolf
2. George Orwell
3. Bertrand Russell
4. T.S. Eliot
List II
a. In Praise of Idleness
b. A Room of One's Own
c. Tradition and the Individual Talent
d. Politics and the English Language
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Virginia Woolf is matched with A Room of One's Own.
• George Orwell is matched with Politics and the English Language.
• Bertrand Russell is matched with In Praise of Idleness.
• T.S. Eliot is matched with Tradition and the Individual Talent.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c.
• George Orwell is matched with Politics and the English Language.
• Bertrand Russell is matched with In Praise of Idleness.
• T.S. Eliot is matched with Tradition and the Individual Talent.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Arrange the following works in chronological order of first publication.
1. Tradition and the Individual Talent
2. A Room of One's Own
3. Shooting an Elephant
4. Politics and the English Language
1. Tradition and the Individual Talent
2. A Room of One's Own
3. Shooting an Elephant
4. Politics and the English Language
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Explanation:
• Tradition and the Individual Talent was first published in 1919.
• A Room of One's Own appeared in 1929.
• Shooting an Elephant was first published in 1936.
• Politics and the English Language appeared in 1946.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• A Room of One's Own appeared in 1929.
• Shooting an Elephant was first published in 1936.
• Politics and the English Language appeared in 1946.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which comparative statement about Woolf, Orwell, Russell and Eliot is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• Woolf analyses how gender, education and economic power shape literary production.
• Orwell examines imperial domination and the political corruption of language.
• Russell uses lucid reasoning to challenge dogma and social convention.
• Eliot develops influential arguments about tradition, poetic impersonality and culture.
• The comparison recognizes their distinct contributions to modern British intellectual prose.
• Orwell examines imperial domination and the political corruption of language.
• Russell uses lucid reasoning to challenge dogma and social convention.
• Eliot develops influential arguments about tradition, poetic impersonality and culture.
• The comparison recognizes their distinct contributions to modern British intellectual prose.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Consider the following propositions.
1. A Room of One's Own connects literary freedom with material independence.
2. Shooting an Elephant presents imperial authority as psychologically liberating for the colonial officer.
3. Politics and the English Language argues that clear prose can resist political deception.
4. Eliot's critical prose treats literary tradition as an active relation between past and present.
1. A Room of One's Own connects literary freedom with material independence.
2. Shooting an Elephant presents imperial authority as psychologically liberating for the colonial officer.
3. Politics and the English Language argues that clear prose can resist political deception.
4. Eliot's critical prose treats literary tradition as an active relation between past and present.
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Explanation:
• Proposition 1 is correct because Woolf links authorship with income, privacy and educational opportunity.
• Proposition 2 is incorrect because Orwell presents imperial authority as coercive and degrading even for the officer who exercises it.
• Proposition 3 is correct because Orwell connects precise language with clearer and more honest thought.
• Proposition 4 is correct because Eliot's historical sense joins awareness of the past with its continuing presence.
• Therefore, propositions 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
• Proposition 2 is incorrect because Orwell presents imperial authority as coercive and degrading even for the officer who exercises it.
• Proposition 3 is correct because Orwell connects precise language with clearer and more honest thought.
• Proposition 4 is correct because Eliot's historical sense joins awareness of the past with its continuing presence.
• Therefore, propositions 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. A flexible prose form combining reflection, argument, observation and personal or public concerns సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: C. 1929 సమాధానం: C.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: A. A private room and an independent income సమాధానం: A.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. An imagined sister of Shakespeare used to expose barriers faced by talented women సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: B. To create a flexible speaking position that blends personal experience, fiction and argument సమాధానం: B.
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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: A. Burma సమాధానం: A.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. He fears appearing weak and foolish before the watching crowd. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. The imperial agent appears powerful but is controlled by the expectations created by imperialism. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. Horizon సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: B. Organic unity సమాధానం: B.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. To encourage precision while allowing writers to break a rule rather than produce something barbarous సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Clear, logical, witty and sceptical సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: D. Reduced working hours and increased leisure could improve human freedom and civilization. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Claims should remain open to rational examination and revision. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. Awareness of the pastness of the past together with its presence in contemporary literature సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. Artistic creation involves an impersonal transformation of emotion and experience. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: D. Hamlet and His Problems సమాధానం: D.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. Dissociation of sensibility సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: D. The relation of culture to religion, class, education and the life of a whole society సమాధానం: D.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: A. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: A.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: C. Woolf examines gendered conditions of authorship, Orwell exposes imperial and linguistic power, Russell advances rational scepticism, and Eliot theorizes tradition and culture. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. 1, 3 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.