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Question Paper Name : Ph.D in Sociology 4th Oct 2020
Subject Name : Ph.D in Sociology
Creation Date : 2020-10-04 13:31:39
Duration : 180
Number of Questions : 100

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Total Marks : 100
Display Marks: Yes

Ph.D in Sociology

Group Number : 1
Group Id : 92862755

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Group Maximum Duration : 0
Group Minimum Duration : 150
Show Attended Group? : No
Edit Attended Group? : No
Break time : 0

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Group Marks : 100
Is this Group for Examiner? : No

SECTION A RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Section Id : 928627120
Section Number : 1

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Section type : Online
Mandatory or Optional : Mandatory
Number of Questions : 50
Number of Questions to be attempted : 50

Section Marks : 50

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Mark As Answered Required? : Yes
Sub-Section Number : 1
Sub-Section Id : 928627380
Question Shuffling Allowed : Yes

Question Number : 1 Question Id : 9286276628 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

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Who among the following pleaded for extending the scientific outlook from the physical science to the study of human beings ?

Options:

Auguste Comte

Saint-Simon

Emile Durkheim

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Robert Merton

Question Number : 1 Question Id : 9286276628 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

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Options:

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Question Number : 2 Question Id : 9286276629 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

Which of the following is the correct sequence of disciplines according to the chronological order?

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Options:

Sociology, Biology, Mathematics and Physics

Mathematics, Physics, Biology and Sociology

Physics, Mathematics, Biology and Sociology

Biology, Mathematics, Physics and Sociology

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Question Number : 2 Question Id : 9286276629 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

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Options:

?, ?, ? ? ?

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Question Number : 3 Question Id : 9286276630 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

An approach of sociology which emphasizes the analysis of the form of social relations is known as

Options:

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Comparative method

Realism

Formalism

Structuralism

Question Number : 3 Question Id : 9286276630 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

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Options:

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Question Number : 4 Question Id : 9286276631 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

C. Wright Mills believed that

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sociology is a science which helps understand political nature of human beings.

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sociology believes that dominance of politics makes men social.

the study of sociology focuses on the political perspective of human beings.

sociology is a means of challenging social ideas and prejudices and that all sociology is political.

Question Number : 4 Question Id : 9286276631 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

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Options:

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Question Number : 5 Question Id : 9286276632 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

The social science approach that believes that experience, particularly of the senses is only source of knowledge is called

Options:

Phenomenology

Empiricism

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Dialectical materialism

Diffusionism

Question Number : 5 Question Id : 9286276632 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? ? ? ? ? ? ?, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?, ? ? ?

Options:

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?-?-?

?/?

? ?

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Question Number : 6 Question Id : 9286276633 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

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Epistemology deals with

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nature, scope, source and limits of knowledge

the evolution of societies from simple to complex

the complex arrangement between various institutions in societies

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various systems of knowledge and their cultural contexts

Question Number : 6 Question Id : 9286276633 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

?-? ? ? ? ?

Options:

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

? ? ? ?/? ? ? ? ?

Question Number : 7 Question Id : 9286276634 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

__________ in his book 'Rules of Sociological Method' makes an attempt to establish the discipline of sociology.

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Options:

Durkheim

Max Weber

Question Number : 7 Question Id : 9286276634 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

__________ ? ? ? '? ? ? ?' ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

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Options:

?

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Karl Marx

Auguste Comte

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Question Number : 8 Question Id : 9286276635 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

Who among the following emphasized the need for 'value reference' instead of value judgement in social science research ?

Options:

August Comte

Max Weber

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Emile Durkheim

Malinowski

Question Number : 8 Question Id : 9286276635 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? '? ?' ? ? ? ? ? ?

Options:

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? ?

Question Number : 9 Question Id : 9286276636 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

Who among the following is associated with the phenomenological approach in social sciences ?

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Options:

Max Weber

Alfred Schütz

Ralf Dahrendorf

Radcliffe-Brown

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Question Number : 9 Question Id : 9286276636 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Options:

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? ?

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? ?

?-?

Question Number : 10 Question Id : 9286276637 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

Which of the following methodology advocates for non-separation of public and private sphere in society?

Options:

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Feminist

Marxist

Neo-functionalist

Neo-Marxist

Question Number : 10 Question Id : 9286276637 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

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? ? ? ?-? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (?) ? ?

Options:

?

?

?-?

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?-?

Question Number : 11 Question Id : 9286276638 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

Hermeneutics means

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explaining

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ordering

classification

organisation

Question Number : 11 Question Id : 9286276638 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? ? ? ?

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Options:

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? ?

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Question Number : 12 Question Id : 9286276639 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

Who coined the term Positivism?

Options:

Auguste Comte

Emile Durkheim

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Max Weber

Karl Popper

Question Number : 12 Question Id : 9286276639 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? ? ? ? ? ?

Options:

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? ?

? ?

? ?

Question Number : 13 Question Id : 9286276640 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

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Match the following:

a. Interactional process analysis i. Radcliffe-Brown
b. Survival of the fittest ii. Herbert-Spencer
c. Social construction of reality iii. Robert F. Bales
d. Euphoria iv. Berger and Luckmann

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Options:

a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-i

a-i, b-iii, c-iv, d-ii

a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii

a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv

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Question Number : 13 Question Id : 9286276640 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

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a. ? ? ? i. ?-?
b. ?/? ? ? ii. ? ?
c. ? ? ? ? iii. ? ?. ?

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d. ? iv. ? ? ?

Options:

a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-i

a-i, b-iii, c-iv, d-ii

a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii

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a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv

Question Number : 14 Question Id : 9286276641 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

Max Weber uses __________ as a methodological tool to objectively look at social reality.

Options:

ideal type

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observation

comparative method

understanding

Question Number : 14 Question Id : 9286276641 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? ? ? __________ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

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Options:

? ?

? (?)

? ?

?

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Question Number : 15 Question Id : 9286276642 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

Critical theorists are most disturbed by

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alienation

economic determinism

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ethnic violence

class consciousness

Question Number : 15 Question Id : 9286276642 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Options:

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? (?) ?

? ?

Question Number : 16 Question Id : 9286276643 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

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Exchange theory was developed by

Options:

E. Goffman

H. Blumer

D. Thomas

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G. Homans

Question Number : 16 Question Id : 9286276643 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Options:

?. ?

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?. ?

?. ?

?. ?

Question Number : 17 Question Id : 9286276644 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

According to Geertz, __________ has a way of providing context to the actions, words and meanings, so one can get a sense of a social practice.

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Options:

thick description

ethnography

explanation

data

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Question Number : 17 Question Id : 9286276644 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? ? ? __________ ? ? ?, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Options:

? ?

?-?

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?

?

Question Number : 18 Question Id : 9286276645 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

__________ elucidates the theoretical orientation with which the research process is to be carried out and guides the choice of methods and techniques to be used.

Options:

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Research design

Methodology

Research proposal

Statement of the problem

Question Number : 18 Question Id : 9286276645 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

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__________ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Options:

? ? (?)

?

? ?

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? ? ?/?-? ? ?

Question Number : 19 Question Id : 9286276646 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

The assumption that the researcher has little or no knowledge of the problem or situation under study, or is unfamiliar with the structure of the study is associated with which research?

Options:

Explanation research

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Controlled research

Exploratory research

Empirical research

Question Number : 19 Question Id : 9286276646 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?-? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?, ? ? ? ? ? ?

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Options:

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Question Number : 20 Question Id : 9286276647 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

Who among the following is associated with the concept of dynamic equilibrium?

Options:

Raymond Firth

Talcott Parsons

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Malinowski

Edmund Leach

Question Number : 20 Question Id : 9286276647 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? ? ? ? ? ?/? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Options:

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? ?

?

? ?

Question Number : 21 Question Id : 9286276648 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

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__________ used linguistic models to explain social and cultural phenomenon.

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Structuralism

Discourse analysis

Historical materialism

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Structural functionalism

Question Number : 21 Question Id : 9286276648 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

__________ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (?) (models) ? ? ? ?

Options:

?

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? ?

? ?

Question Number : 22 Question Id : 9286276649 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

That knowledge exists as a 'fact' and that it can be established by western scientific methods was challenged by

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Interpretative school

Critical theories

Cultural linguists

Post-modernists

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Question Number : 22 Question Id : 9286276649 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? '?' ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?, ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Options:

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? ?

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? ?

? ?

Question Number : 23 Question Id : 9286276650 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

Which of the following approaches examines colonialist history of India?

Options:

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Discourse analysis

Nativists' approach

Subaltern approach

Nationalist approach

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? ? ? ?-? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Options:

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? ?/? ?

? ?

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? ?

Question Number : 24 Question Id : 9286276651 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

In his book 'Orientalism' Edward Said analyses

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the Oriental way of life

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cultural patterns common to societies from the East

the history of Arab cultures

the patronising way the West depicts the East

Question Number : 24 Question Id : 9286276651 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

? ? '?' ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

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Options:

? ? ? ?/?

? ? ? ? ? ? (?)

? ? ? ?

? ? ? ? ? ?/? ?

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__________ draws on the concept of gender to analyse relationship between humans and natural world and argues for colloborative and egalitarian approach.

Options:

Veganism

Environmentalism

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Eco-Pacifism

Ecofeminism

Question Number : 25 Question Id : 9286276652 Question Type : MCQ Option Shuffling : Yes Is Question Mandatory : No Correct Marks : 1 Wrong Marks : 0

__________ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Options:

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