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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which statement best defines a diary as a form of life writing?
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Explanation:
• A diary usually records experiences, observations and reflections in dated or sequential entries.
• Its structure is shaped by the movement of daily or recurring time.
• Diaries may include both private concerns and major public events.
• They differ from fictional dialogue, philosophical treatises and biographies.
• Its structure is shaped by the movement of daily or recurring time.
• Diaries may include both private concerns and major public events.
• They differ from fictional dialogue, philosophical treatises and biographies.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
What is the usual relationship between a letter and its audience?
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Explanation:
• A letter is usually shaped by an identifiable recipient, relationship and occasion.
• Its tone and level of detail depend partly on what the recipient already knows.
• Letters may later reach wider readers through publication.
• Their original communicative situation remains important to interpretation.
• Its tone and level of detail depend partly on what the recipient already knows.
• Letters may later reach wider readers through publication.
• Their original communicative situation remains important to interpretation.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which feature most clearly distinguishes a pilgrimage narrative from purely recreational travel writing?
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Explanation:
• A pilgrimage narrative centres on travel motivated by religious devotion or spiritual purpose.
• The physical journey may symbolize repentance, testing, transformation or inward progress.
• Such narratives can still include landscape, danger and social encounter.
• Their defining feature is sacred orientation rather than grammatical person.
• The physical journey may symbolize repentance, testing, transformation or inward progress.
• Such narratives can still include landscape, danger and social encounter.
• Their defining feature is sacred orientation rather than grammatical person.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Samuel Pepys kept his famous diary during which period?
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Explanation:
• Samuel Pepys kept his diary from January 1660 until May 1669.
• The record covers the early Restoration period.
• It combines private experience with observations of politics, theatre and naval administration.
• Pepys stopped writing largely because he feared damage to his eyesight.
• The record covers the early Restoration period.
• It combines private experience with observations of politics, theatre and naval administration.
• Pepys stopped writing largely because he feared damage to his eyesight.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which shorthand system did Pepys chiefly use in writing his diary?
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Explanation:
• Pepys wrote most of his diary in a shorthand system devised by Thomas Shelton.
• The system made the manuscript difficult for later readers to decipher.
• Pitman and Gregg shorthand were developed much later.
• Pepys also used occasional foreign-language expressions for sensitive material.
• The system made the manuscript difficult for later readers to decipher.
• Pitman and Gregg shorthand were developed much later.
• Pepys also used occasional foreign-language expressions for sensitive material.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which two major disasters of Restoration London receive detailed eyewitness treatment in Pepys's diary?
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Explanation:
• Pepys records the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London in 1666.
• His entries preserve immediate reactions, practical details and urban observations.
• These accounts are important historical evidence as well as vivid prose narratives.
• The other events belong to different periods.
• His entries preserve immediate reactions, practical details and urban observations.
• These accounts are important historical evidence as well as vivid prose narratives.
• The other events belong to different periods.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Why is Pepys's diary valuable to both literary scholars and historians?
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Explanation:
• Pepys writes about personal ambition, pleasure, anxiety and moral inconsistency.
• He also records naval administration, court politics, theatre, plague and fire.
• This interaction between private and public experience gives the diary unusual richness.
• Its subjectivity requires critical reading but does not diminish its historical value.
• He also records naval administration, court politics, theatre, plague and fire.
• This interaction between private and public experience gives the diary unusual richness.
• Its subjectivity requires critical reading but does not diminish its historical value.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Dorothy Wordsworth's best-known journal is associated with which Lake District location?
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Explanation:
• Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal records life and observation in the Lake District.
• She lived with William Wordsworth at Dove Cottage in Grasmere.
• The journal attends closely to weather, walking, neighbours and natural detail.
• Its prose is valued both independently and in relation to Romantic poetry.
• She lived with William Wordsworth at Dove Cottage in Grasmere.
• The journal attends closely to weather, walking, neighbours and natural detail.
• Its prose is valued both independently and in relation to Romantic poetry.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which quality is most characteristic of Dorothy Wordsworth's journal writing?
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Explanation:
• Dorothy Wordsworth records changing light, plants, weather, roads and domestic activity with great precision.
• Her journal joins sensory observation with emotion and memory.
• The entries also document relationships within the Wordsworth household and local community.
• The writing is therefore concrete and personal rather than abstract or detached.
• Her journal joins sensory observation with emotion and memory.
• The entries also document relationships within the Wordsworth household and local community.
• The writing is therefore concrete and personal rather than abstract or detached.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
What is the literary significance of Dorothy Wordsworth's descriptions of nature in relation to William Wordsworth's poetry?
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Explanation:
• Dorothy's journals preserve observations and phrases that sometimes contributed to William Wordsworth's poetic composition.
• The relation demonstrates shared experience and creative exchange rather than simple transcription.
• Her prose also possesses independent literary value.
• The journals were written during important periods of William's poetic development.
• The relation demonstrates shared experience and creative exchange rather than simple transcription.
• Her prose also possesses independent literary value.
• The journals were written during important periods of William's poetic development.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Consider the following statements about Dorothy Wordsworth's journals.
Statement I: They combine domestic detail with close observation of the natural world.
Statement II: They were originally constructed as a systematic public theory of Romantic poetry.
Statement I: They combine domestic detail with close observation of the natural world.
Statement II: They were originally constructed as a systematic public theory of Romantic poetry.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because the journals move between household life, walking, relationships and natural observation.
• Statement II is incorrect because they were not designed as a formal public theory of Romantic poetry.
• Their literary importance arises partly from the immediacy and detail of private journal writing.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because they were not designed as a formal public theory of Romantic poetry.
• Their literary importance arises partly from the immediacy and detail of private journal writing.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters chiefly record her encounters with which cultural world?
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Explanation:
• Montagu's letters describe travel through Europe and encounters with Ottoman society.
• Her husband served as British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
• She comments on social customs, religion, dress, architecture and the lives of women.
• The letters are important examples of eighteenth-century travel and epistolary prose.
• Her husband served as British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
• She comments on social customs, religion, dress, architecture and the lives of women.
• The letters are important examples of eighteenth-century travel and epistolary prose.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
What distinctive access shaped Montagu's descriptions of Ottoman women's lives?
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Explanation:
• Montagu's gender enabled her to enter baths and other female spaces inaccessible to most male European travellers.
• This access allowed her to challenge some inherited European representations of Ottoman women.
• Her account remains shaped by class, nationality and personal perspective.
• Cultural access does not eliminate subjectivity.
• This access allowed her to challenge some inherited European representations of Ottoman women.
• Her account remains shaped by class, nationality and personal perspective.
• Cultural access does not eliminate subjectivity.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which medical practice observed in Ottoman society did Montagu help introduce to wider attention in Britain?
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Explanation:
• Montagu observed the practice of smallpox inoculation in the Ottoman Empire.
• She described the procedure in her correspondence and later had her own daughter inoculated in Britain.
• Her advocacy contributed to public discussion of protection against smallpox.
• The other medical developments belong to later scientific periods.
• She described the procedure in her correspondence and later had her own daughter inoculated in Britain.
• Her advocacy contributed to public discussion of protection against smallpox.
• The other medical developments belong to later scientific periods.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Consider the following statements about the Turkish Embassy Letters.
Statement I: The letters are shaped by particular recipients and occasions.
Statement II: Their observations provide a completely neutral view unaffected by the writer's social position.
Statement I: The letters are shaped by particular recipients and occasions.
Statement II: Their observations provide a completely neutral view unaffected by the writer's social position.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because each letter addresses a recipient within a specific social and communicative context.
• Statement II is incorrect because Montagu's observations are shaped by gender, class, nationality and personal judgement.
• Her unusual access can correct some stereotypes without producing total neutrality.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because Montagu's observations are shaped by gender, class, nationality and personal judgement.
• Her unusual access can correct some stereotypes without producing total neutrality.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
What is the name of the donkey that accompanies Robert Louis Stevenson in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes?
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Explanation:
• Modestine is the donkey that accompanies Stevenson through the Cévennes.
• Their difficult relationship gradually becomes an important emotional element of the narrative.
• The animal affects the pace, hardships and social encounters of the journey.
• The travel book was published in 1879.
• Their difficult relationship gradually becomes an important emotional element of the narrative.
• The animal affects the pace, hardships and social encounters of the journey.
• The travel book was published in 1879.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which description best characterizes Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes?
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Explanation:
• Stevenson narrates a walking journey through the Cévennes region of France.
• The book combines landscape description, self-observation, humour, discomfort and encounters with local people.
• Modestine becomes more than a means of transport and contributes to the narrative's emotional shape.
• The work is based on an actual journey rather than a purely fictional adventure.
• The book combines landscape description, self-observation, humour, discomfort and encounters with local people.
• Modestine becomes more than a means of transport and contributes to the narrative's emotional shape.
• The work is based on an actual journey rather than a purely fictional adventure.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which work by V.S. Naipaul is a travel-based examination of India?
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Explanation:
• An Area of Darkness is Naipaul's travel-based account of India, first published in 1964.
• It combines observation with autobiography, cultural judgement and the tensions of diasporic identity.
• The Mimic Men, A House for Mr Biswas and Miguel Street are works of fiction.
• The book is the first part of Naipaul's India trilogy.
• It combines observation with autobiography, cultural judgement and the tensions of diasporic identity.
• The Mimic Men, A House for Mr Biswas and Miguel Street are works of fiction.
• The book is the first part of Naipaul's India trilogy.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Why is Naipaul's An Area of Darkness often discussed in relation to subjectivity?
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Explanation:
• Naipaul's encounter with India is shaped by his Indian ancestry, Caribbean upbringing and expectations of origin.
• The narrative frequently records disappointment, distance and cultural unease.
• These responses make the work revealing but also controversial.
• Travel writing must therefore be read as both observation and positioned interpretation.
• The narrative frequently records disappointment, distance and cultural unease.
• These responses make the work revealing but also controversial.
• Travel writing must therefore be read as both observation and positioned interpretation.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which travel book is correctly associated with Bruce Chatwin?
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Explanation:
• Bruce Chatwin wrote In Patagonia, published in 1977.
• The work combines travel, historical fragments, anecdotes, legends and encounters.
• The Great Railway Bazaar is by Paul Theroux, The Road to Oxiana is by Robert Byron and A Time of Gifts is by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
• Chatwin's fragmented method challenged conventional continuous travel narrative.
• The work combines travel, historical fragments, anecdotes, legends and encounters.
• The Great Railway Bazaar is by Paul Theroux, The Road to Oxiana is by Robert Byron and A Time of Gifts is by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
• Chatwin's fragmented method challenged conventional continuous travel narrative.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which formal feature is especially associated with Chatwin's In Patagonia?
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Explanation:
• In Patagonia is organized through short, discontinuous sections rather than a single smooth chronological account.
• Chatwin mixes personal encounters with historical anecdotes, archival material and local stories.
• This mosaic form reflects the instability of memory, legend and place.
• The work is neither a formal proof nor a verse epic.
• Chatwin mixes personal encounters with historical anecdotes, archival material and local stories.
• This mosaic form reflects the instability of memory, legend and place.
• The work is neither a formal proof nor a verse epic.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Samuel Pepys
2. Dorothy Wordsworth
3. Robert Louis Stevenson
4. Bruce Chatwin
List II
a. In Patagonia
b. Grasmere Journal
c. Restoration diary
d. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
List I
1. Samuel Pepys
2. Dorothy Wordsworth
3. Robert Louis Stevenson
4. Bruce Chatwin
List II
a. In Patagonia
b. Grasmere Journal
c. Restoration diary
d. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Samuel Pepys is matched with the Restoration diary.
• Dorothy Wordsworth is matched with the Grasmere Journal.
• Robert Louis Stevenson is matched with Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.
• Bruce Chatwin is matched with In Patagonia.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a.
• Dorothy Wordsworth is matched with the Grasmere Journal.
• Robert Louis Stevenson is matched with Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.
• Bruce Chatwin is matched with In Patagonia.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Arrange the following works or records in chronological order.
1. Pepys begins his diary.
2. Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters are published posthumously.
3. Dorothy Wordsworth begins the first Grasmere Journal sequence.
4. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes is published.
1. Pepys begins his diary.
2. Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters are published posthumously.
3. Dorothy Wordsworth begins the first Grasmere Journal sequence.
4. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes is published.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Pepys began his diary in 1660.
• Montagu's travel letters were published posthumously in 1763.
• Dorothy Wordsworth began the first Grasmere Journal sequence in 1800.
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes was published in 1879.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
• Montagu's travel letters were published posthumously in 1763.
• Dorothy Wordsworth began the first Grasmere Journal sequence in 1800.
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes was published in 1879.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Assertion: Travel writing cannot be treated as a transparent copy of a place.
Reason: Selection, cultural assumptions, narrative form and the traveller's position influence every representation of a journey.
Reason: Selection, cultural assumptions, narrative form and the traveller's position influence every representation of a journey.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because travel narratives construct places through language and selection.
• The Reason is correct because the traveller's identity, assumptions and literary choices shape representation.
• These factors directly explain why a travel account is not a transparent copy of reality.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because the traveller's identity, assumptions and literary choices shape representation.
• These factors directly explain why a travel account is not a transparent copy of reality.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated statement about diaries, letters and travel writing is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• Diaries, letters and travel narratives refer to people, events and places beyond the text.
• At the same time, they are shaped by memory, audience, emotion, selection and narrative form.
• Their subjectivity does not make them useless as evidence, but it requires critical interpretation.
• They can illuminate both private life and wider historical or cultural processes.
• At the same time, they are shaped by memory, audience, emotion, selection and narrative form.
• Their subjectivity does not make them useless as evidence, but it requires critical interpretation.
• They can illuminate both private life and wider historical or cultural processes.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. A dated or sequential record of experiences, observations and reflections సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: D. A letter is normally addressed to a particular recipient or group. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: D. A journey directed toward a sacred destination or spiritual purpose సమాధానం: D.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: B. 1660 to 1669 సమాధానం: B.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: C. Thomas Shelton's shorthand సమాధానం: C.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: A. The Great Plague and the Great Fire of London సమాధానం: A.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. It combines candid self-observation with eyewitness accounts of public events. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Grasmere సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: C. Precise observation of landscape, weather and everyday life సమాధానం: C.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: A. Some journal observations provided images and details later transformed in his poems. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: B. Ottoman society during her journey and residence connected with the British embassy సమాధానం: B.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: D. Her ability as a woman to enter female social spaces generally closed to male European travellers సమాధానం: D.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. Smallpox inoculation సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: B. Modestine సమాధానం: B.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: C. A personal walking narrative combining landscape, hardship, humour and companionship సమాధానం: C.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: A. An Area of Darkness సమాధానం: A.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: D. It presents India through a traveller whose ancestral connection, expectations and alienation shape his judgements. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. In Patagonia సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. A fragmented sequence of brief narratives, histories and encounters సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: A. 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a సమాధానం: A.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. 1, 2, 3, 4 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: B. They combine referential claims with personal perspective, selection and literary shaping. సమాధానం: B.