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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which statement best defines colonial discourse?
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Explanation:
• Colonial discourse consists of descriptions, classifications and narratives produced within colonial relations of power.
• It often represents colonized peoples as inferior, irrational, primitive or dependent.
• Such representations help justify political domination and cultural control.
• Postcolonial criticism examines how language and knowledge participate in colonial power.
• It often represents colonized peoples as inferior, irrational, primitive or dependent.
• Such representations help justify political domination and cultural control.
• Postcolonial criticism examines how language and knowledge participate in colonial power.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Who wrote Black Skin, White Masks?
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Explanation:
• Frantz Fanon wrote Black Skin, White Masks, first published in French in 1952.
• The work examines the psychological and cultural effects of colonial racism.
• Fanon draws on psychoanalysis, philosophy, personal experience and social criticism.
• Said, Achebe and Ngũgĩ developed other major traditions of postcolonial thought.
• The work examines the psychological and cultural effects of colonial racism.
• Fanon draws on psychoanalysis, philosophy, personal experience and social criticism.
• Said, Achebe and Ngũgĩ developed other major traditions of postcolonial thought.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
What is a central concern of Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks?
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Explanation:
• Fanon examines how colonial racism affects language, desire, self-perception and identity.
• The colonized subject may internalize the values of the colonizer and experience alienation from Black identity.
• The title symbolizes the pressure to adopt a white cultural mask.
• The work links individual psychology with broader structures of colonial power.
• The colonized subject may internalize the values of the colonizer and experience alienation from Black identity.
• The title symbolizes the pressure to adopt a white cultural mask.
• The work links individual psychology with broader structures of colonial power.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which description best represents Fanon's argument in The Wretched of the Earth?
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Explanation:
• Fanon presents decolonization as a fundamental transformation rather than a simple transfer of administrators.
• Colonialism is maintained through violence, racial hierarchy and economic exploitation.
• Liberation must therefore transform institutions, social relations and colonized consciousness.
• The work also warns that political independence may fail without genuine social and economic change.
• Colonialism is maintained through violence, racial hierarchy and economic exploitation.
• Liberation must therefore transform institutions, social relations and colonized consciousness.
• The work also warns that political independence may fail without genuine social and economic change.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
What does Fanon criticize in the chapter commonly known as The Pitfalls of National Consciousness?
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Explanation:
• Fanon warns that a national bourgeoisie may inherit power without transforming the colonial economy.
• Such an elite may imitate European models and use nationalism for personal enrichment.
• Political independence can therefore coexist with continuing poverty and dependency.
• Fanon advocates a socially transformative and participatory form of national liberation.
• Such an elite may imitate European models and use nationalism for personal enrichment.
• Political independence can therefore coexist with continuing poverty and dependency.
• Fanon advocates a socially transformative and participatory form of national liberation.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Consider the following statements about Fanon's thought.
Statement I: Colonialism produces psychological as well as political domination.
Statement II: Formal independence automatically guarantees complete decolonization.
Statement I: Colonialism produces psychological as well as political domination.
Statement II: Formal independence automatically guarantees complete decolonization.
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Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Fanon analyses the internalization of racial inferiority and colonial values.
• Statement II is incorrect because political independence may leave economic dependence and cultural alienation intact.
• Decolonization must transform both external institutions and internal consciousness.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
• Statement II is incorrect because political independence may leave economic dependence and cultural alienation intact.
• Decolonization must transform both external institutions and internal consciousness.
• Therefore, Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Who wrote Orientalism?
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Explanation:
• Edward Said wrote Orientalism, published in 1978.
• The work investigates Western representations of the Middle East and Asia.
• Said argues that knowledge about the Orient developed within unequal relations of political and cultural power.
• Orientalism became a foundational text of postcolonial studies.
• The work investigates Western representations of the Middle East and Asia.
• Said argues that knowledge about the Orient developed within unequal relations of political and cultural power.
• Orientalism became a foundational text of postcolonial studies.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
How does Edward Said primarily define Orientalism?
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Explanation:
• Said describes Orientalism as a discourse through which the West represents and manages the Orient.
• It constructs an opposition between a rational, progressive West and an irrational, static East.
• These representations are connected with imperial administration and political authority.
• Orientalism is therefore not merely an innocent academic interest in Eastern cultures.
• It constructs an opposition between a rational, progressive West and an irrational, static East.
• These representations are connected with imperial administration and political authority.
• Orientalism is therefore not merely an innocent academic interest in Eastern cultures.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which relationship is central to Said's analysis in Orientalism?
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Explanation:
• Said argues that knowledge about colonized regions is connected with institutions of imperial power.
• Scholars, travellers, administrators and writers contribute to systems of representation.
• These representations influence how regions are studied, governed and imagined.
• Knowledge is therefore not treated as completely separate from political authority.
• Scholars, travellers, administrators and writers contribute to systems of representation.
• These representations influence how regions are studied, governed and imagined.
• Knowledge is therefore not treated as completely separate from political authority.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
What does Said mean by contrapuntal reading in Culture and Imperialism?
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Explanation:
• Contrapuntal reading examines imperial culture and colonized experience simultaneously.
• It reveals how metropolitan prosperity, literature and identity are connected with colonial territories.
• The method neither ignores literary form nor demands the rejection of all European literature.
• It expands interpretation by including histories suppressed or marginalized within canonical texts.
• It reveals how metropolitan prosperity, literature and identity are connected with colonial territories.
• The method neither ignores literary form nor demands the rejection of all European literature.
• It expands interpretation by including histories suppressed or marginalized within canonical texts.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Assertion: Said does not treat literary representation as politically innocent.
Reason: Repeated cultural images can help establish and normalize unequal relationships between imperial powers and colonized peoples.
Reason: Repeated cultural images can help establish and normalize unequal relationships between imperial powers and colonized peoples.
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Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Said connects cultural representation with historical structures of imperialism.
• The Reason is correct because repeated stereotypes can make domination appear natural or necessary.
• Literature does not simply reflect political power but may participate in producing cultural authority.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because repeated stereotypes can make domination appear natural or necessary.
• Literature does not simply reflect political power but may participate in producing cultural authority.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which European literary work is the principal subject of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa?
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Explanation:
• Achebe's An Image of Africa offers a major critique of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
• Achebe argues that Africa is used as a background against which European identity is defined.
• African characters are denied language, complexity and full humanity.
• The essay generated an influential debate about race, canon formation and literary value.
• Achebe argues that Africa is used as a background against which European identity is defined.
• African characters are denied language, complexity and full humanity.
• The essay generated an influential debate about race, canon formation and literary value.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
What is Achebe's principal criticism of Heart of Darkness in An Image of Africa?
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Explanation:
• Achebe argues that Conrad reduces Africa to an image of darkness and primitivism.
• This representation helps define Europe as civilized and rational.
• Africans appear largely as bodies, sounds or scenery rather than complex individuals.
• Achebe's criticism demonstrates how literary artistry can coexist with racial ideology.
• This representation helps define Europe as civilized and rational.
• Africans appear largely as bodies, sounds or scenery rather than complex individuals.
• Achebe's criticism demonstrates how literary artistry can coexist with racial ideology.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Which position does Achebe adopt in The African Writer and the English Language?
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Explanation:
• Achebe accepts the historical presence of English while refusing to use it as an unchanged colonial instrument.
• He argues that African writers can adapt its rhythms, imagery and structures.
• The transformed language can express African cultural experience and communicate across linguistic groups.
• His position differs from Ngũgĩ's later emphasis on writing in African languages.
• He argues that African writers can adapt its rhythms, imagery and structures.
• The transformed language can express African cultural experience and communicate across linguistic groups.
• His position differs from Ngũgĩ's later emphasis on writing in African languages.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
What role does Achebe assign to the African novelist in The Novelist as Teacher?
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Explanation:
• Achebe argues that colonial education taught Africans to view their past with shame.
• The novelist can restore complexity and dignity to African history and culture.
• Teaching does not require simplistic propaganda but involves correcting destructive representations.
• Achebe therefore connects storytelling with cultural recovery and intellectual decolonization.
• The novelist can restore complexity and dignity to African history and culture.
• Teaching does not require simplistic propaganda but involves correcting destructive representations.
• Achebe therefore connects storytelling with cultural recovery and intellectual decolonization.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Who wrote Decolonising the Mind?
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Explanation:
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o wrote Decolonising the Mind, published in 1986.
• The book examines language, literature, theatre and colonial education.
• Ngũgĩ argues that control of language is central to cultural and psychological domination.
• The work is a major statement in African decolonial thought.
• The book examines language, literature, theatre and colonial education.
• Ngũgĩ argues that control of language is central to cultural and psychological domination.
• The work is a major statement in African decolonial thought.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
According to Ngũgĩ, why is language more than a simple means of communication?
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Explanation:
• Ngũgĩ distinguishes language as communication from language as a carrier of culture.
• Stories, values, memories and collective identities are transmitted through language.
• Colonial education can alienate children from their communities by devaluing their mother tongues.
• Linguistic decolonization is therefore connected with cultural and psychological freedom.
• Stories, values, memories and collective identities are transmitted through language.
• Colonial education can alienate children from their communities by devaluing their mother tongues.
• Linguistic decolonization is therefore connected with cultural and psychological freedom.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Which decision most clearly demonstrates Ngũgĩ's commitment to linguistic decolonization?
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Explanation:
• Ngũgĩ chose to write major creative works in Gikuyu rather than continuing exclusively in English.
• The decision challenged the assumption that African literature required European languages.
• He also supported translation as a means of communication among languages.
• His practice reflects the arguments developed in Decolonising the Mind.
• The decision challenged the assumption that African literature required European languages.
• He also supported translation as a means of communication among languages.
• His practice reflects the arguments developed in Decolonising the Mind.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
What is the decolonial significance of community-based theatre in Ngũgĩ's thought?
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Explanation:
• Ngũgĩ values theatre created with communities rather than merely presented to them.
• Local language, oral traditions and shared social problems become part of performance.
• Cultural production is returned to people whose voices colonial institutions marginalized.
• Community theatre therefore joins artistic practice with political education and resistance.
• Local language, oral traditions and shared social problems become part of performance.
• Cultural production is returned to people whose voices colonial institutions marginalized.
• Community theatre therefore joins artistic practice with political education and resistance.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Frantz Fanon
2. Edward Said
3. Chinua Achebe
4. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
List II
a. Decolonising the Mind
b. An Image of Africa
c. Orientalism
d. The Wretched of the Earth
List I
1. Frantz Fanon
2. Edward Said
3. Chinua Achebe
4. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
List II
a. Decolonising the Mind
b. An Image of Africa
c. Orientalism
d. The Wretched of the Earth
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Frantz Fanon is matched with The Wretched of the Earth.
• Edward Said is matched with Orientalism.
• Chinua Achebe is matched with An Image of Africa.
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is matched with Decolonising the Mind.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-d, 2-c, 3-b, 4-a.
• Edward Said is matched with Orientalism.
• Chinua Achebe is matched with An Image of Africa.
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is matched with Decolonising the Mind.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-d, 2-c, 3-b, 4-a.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Arrange the following works in chronological order of first publication.
1. Orientalism
2. Black Skin, White Masks
3. Decolonising the Mind
4. The Wretched of the Earth
1. Orientalism
2. Black Skin, White Masks
3. Decolonising the Mind
4. The Wretched of the Earth
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Explanation:
• Black Skin, White Masks was first published in 1952.
• The Wretched of the Earth appeared in 1961.
• Orientalism was published in 1978.
• Decolonising the Mind appeared in 1986.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 2, 4, 1, 3.
• The Wretched of the Earth appeared in 1961.
• Orientalism was published in 1978.
• Decolonising the Mind appeared in 1986.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 2, 4, 1, 3.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Consider the following statements about decolonization.
1. Political independence may leave colonial cultural assumptions intact.
2. Language can participate in the formation of colonial identity.
3. Nationalism is always sufficient to produce social equality.
4. Cultural resistance can challenge colonial representations.
1. Political independence may leave colonial cultural assumptions intact.
2. Language can participate in the formation of colonial identity.
3. Nationalism is always sufficient to produce social equality.
4. Cultural resistance can challenge colonial representations.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because political independence does not automatically transform cultural or psychological domination.
• Statement 2 is correct because colonial education and language policy shape identity and social value.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because Fanon warns that nationalism may be captured by privileged elites.
• Statement 4 is correct because literature, criticism and cultural production can oppose colonial stereotypes.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because colonial education and language policy shape identity and social value.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because Fanon warns that nationalism may be captured by privileged elites.
• Statement 4 is correct because literature, criticism and cultural production can oppose colonial stereotypes.
• Therefore, statements 1, 2 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
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Explanation:
• Ngũgĩ does not regard colonial language as culturally neutral.
• He argues that language carries values, memories and structures of perception.
• Fanon is correctly associated with colonial psychology and racial alienation.
• Said analyses representation and imperial power, while Achebe challenges colonial images of Africa.
• He argues that language carries values, memories and structures of perception.
• Fanon is correctly associated with colonial psychology and racial alienation.
• Said analyses representation and imperial power, while Achebe challenges colonial images of Africa.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
A university teaches African history only through colonial documents and excludes African languages, oral traditions and local scholarship. Which response is most consistent with decolonial thought?
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Explanation:
• Decolonial scholarship examines who produced knowledge and whose voices were excluded.
• African languages, oral traditions and local intellectual work can challenge colonial accounts.
• Colonial archives remain useful but must be read critically rather than treated as neutral.
• Decolonization expands and revises knowledge instead of abandoning evidence or intercultural exchange.
• African languages, oral traditions and local intellectual work can challenge colonial accounts.
• Colonial archives remain useful but must be read critically rather than treated as neutral.
• Decolonization expands and revises knowledge instead of abandoning evidence or intercultural exchange.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated statement about Fanon, Said, Achebe and Ngũgĩ is most accurate?
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Explanation:
• Fanon analyses colonial violence, psychological alienation and the dangers of elite nationalism.
• Said examines the relationship between imperial power and systems of representation.
• Achebe challenges colonial images while using literature for cultural recovery.
• Ngũgĩ emphasizes African languages and community cultural production.
• Together, their works show that decolonization must be political, cultural, linguistic and intellectual.
• Said examines the relationship between imperial power and systems of representation.
• Achebe challenges colonial images while using literature for cultural recovery.
• Ngũgĩ emphasizes African languages and community cultural production.
• Together, their works show that decolonization must be political, cultural, linguistic and intellectual.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: C. A system of representations through which colonial power constructs and governs colonized peoples సమాధానం: C.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. Frantz Fanon సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: B. The psychological alienation produced when colonial racism makes the colonized subject desire the colonizer's identity సమాధానం: B.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Decolonization is a radical struggle that overturns the political and psychological structures of colonial rule. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: C. The replacement of colonial rulers by a self-interested national bourgeoisie that preserves unequal structures సమాధానం: C.
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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. Edward Said సమాధానం: B.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: A. A Western system of knowledge that constructs the Orient as different, inferior and available for domination సమాధానం: A.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: D. The relationship between knowledge, representation and political domination సమాధానం: D.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. Reading metropolitan and colonized histories together to reveal their interconnectedness సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: B. Heart of Darkness సమాధానం: B.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: C. Africa is represented as a primitive opposite of Europe rather than as a world of fully human subjects. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: D. English can be reshaped to carry African experience while reaching readers across linguistic boundaries. సమాధానం: D.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. To help readers recover historical dignity and challenge colonial misrepresentations సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: B. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o సమాధానం: B.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: C. It carries culture, history, values and ways of perceiving the world. సమాధానం: C.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: D. His shift from writing creative works in English to writing primarily in Gikuyu సమాధానం: D.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. It allows local people to participate in producing culture through their own language and social experience. సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. 1-d, 2-c, 3-b, 4-a సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: B. 2, 4, 1, 3 సమాధానం: B.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. Ngũgĩ — defence of colonial language as culturally neutral సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. Include marginalized sources and languages while critically examining how colonial knowledge was produced. సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. Their works examine how colonial power operates through violence, representation, language and culture, while proposing different forms of resistance. సమాధానం: A.