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Question Paper Name: Theatre and Performance Studies 28th May 2019 Shift1 Set1

Subject Name: THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES

Creation Date: 2019-05-28 15:19:44

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Duration: 180

Total Marks: 100

Display Marks: Yes

Share Answer Key With Delivery Engine: Yes

Actual Answer Key: Yes

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Theatre and Performance Studies

Group Number: 1

Group Id: 12820693

Group Maximum Duration: 0

Group Minimum Duration: 120

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Revisit allowed for view?: No

Revisit allowed for edit?: No

Break time: 0

Group Marks: 100

PART A

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Section Id: 128206243

Section Number: 1

Section type: Online

Mandatory or Optional: Mandatory

Number of Questions: 30

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Number of Questions to be attempted: 30

Section Marks: 100

Display Number Panel: Yes

Group All Questions: No

Sub-Section Number: 1

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Sub-Section Id: 128206222

Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

Question Id: 1282064927 Question Type: COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

Question Numbers: (1 to 5)


The most transgressive of avant-garde artists, who almost flaunt their iconoclasm through their acts of self injury and assaults on the audience, are framed within the secular mechanisms of performance as more conventional artistes 'playing safe' with bourgeois aesthetic norms. For all the extremity of her performance, or, more precisely because of her fearless and obsessive embrace of multiple extremities, some of which are incorporated in her lying naked on blocks of ice shaped like cross, juxtaposed with the political symbol of the five point Communist star cut on the naked flesh of her abdomen, Abramovic exemplifies what Talal Asad has designated as the 'self owning human.' Such a 'human' can afford to wound her body for public scrutiny precisely because she owns her body as a form of property whose performance is ultimately protected by copyright.

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Question Number: 1 Question Id: 1282064928 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Abramovic's iconoclasm is performed within the frame of

a. The secular but playing safe

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b. The religious

c. The domain of the unsafe - secular

d. The non-secular

Options:

12820619482. A

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12820619483. B

12820619484. C

12820619485. D

Question Number: 2 Question Id: 1282064929 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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How is Abramovic playing with religious symbols?

a. By lying naked on ice-shaped cross

b. By lying naked on ice shaped cross and the Communist star on her naked abdomen.

c. By cutting the Communist star on her naked abdomen.

d. All of these?

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Options:

12820619486. A

12820619487. B

Question Number: 3 Question Id: 1282064930 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Why is Abramovic regarded as the 'self owning human'?

a. She is an artiste who can afford to wound her body for public scrutiny because of her bourgeois status?

b. She is paid for the performance?

c. Her body is her property whose performance is protected by copyright?

d. Her fame allows her these liberties.

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Options:

12820619490. A

12820619491. B

12820619492. C

12820619493. D

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Question Number: 4 Question Id: 1282064931 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which communist state did she allude to by cutting the star on her stomach?

a. People's Republic of China

b. Yugoslavia

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c. Cuba

d. None of these

Options:

12820619494. A

12820619495. B

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12820619496. C

12820619497. D

Question Number: 5 Question Id: 1282064932 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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What is Carolee Schneemann's scandal in the art world and initiated debates around re-enactments, ephemerality of performance art and copyrights in 2010?

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a. Abramovic's defection from Yugoslavia

b. Re-enacting the Lips of Thomas at MOMA, New York.

c. Holding a retrospective of her own work at MOMA, New York.

d. None of these.

Options:

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12820619498. A

12820619499. B

12820619500. C

12820619501. D

Sub-Section Number: 2

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Sub-Section Id: 128206223

Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

Question Id: 1282064933 Question Type: COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

Question Numbers: (6 to 10)

Dutt and Alkazi followed the same trajectory, beginning with Shakespeare in the English language theatre catering to a small elite audience in the big cities, moving to European classics and contemporary plays before plunging into language theatre. Temperamentally and ideologically quite different both of them explored the potential of stage space in a manner that remains unemulated. While Alkazi went on to use the Delhi's Purana Quila for theatre Dutt changed the look of proscenium space in infinite variations with rostra, levels, screens, revolving discs used unconventionally as well as forms and structures used on stage.

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Question Number: 6 Question Id: 1282064934 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Where are the similarities in Dutt's and Alkazi's theatre?

a. In their dramatic repertoire.

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b. In their ideological affinities.

c. In the cities they worked in.

d. In scenographic innovations.

Options:

12820619502. A

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Question Number: 7 Question Id: 1282064935 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which was the play Alkazi premiered in Purana Quila

a. Shakespeare's King Lear

b. Girish Karnad's Tughlaq

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c. Euripedes' Trojan Women

d. Buchner's Danton's Death

Options:

12820619506. A

12820619507. B

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12820619508. C

12820619509. D

Question Number: 8 Question Id: 1282064936 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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What was Utpal Dutt's play on the naval mutiny in 1965, which was censored and Dutt arrested under sedition:

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a. Macbeth

b. Duswapner Nagari (The Nightmare City)

c. Kallol (Sound of the Waves)

d. Angar (The Coal)

Options:

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12820619510. A

12820619511. B

12820619512. C

12820619513. D

Question Number: 9 Question Id: 1282064937 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

Alkazi read a paper on theatre training methods which would subsequently become the blueprint at www.FirstRanker.com. The paper was titled;

a. The Training of the Actor

b. Building a Character

c. Actor training in India

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d. Acting Methods

Options:

12820619514. A

12820619515. B

12820619516. C

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12820619517. D

Question Number: 10 Question Id: 1282064938 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Utpal Dutt's semi-autobiographical work is called:

a. In Search of Theatre

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b. Towards a Revolutionary Theatre

c. My work in the theatre

d. Political Theatre

Options:

12820619518. A

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12820619519. B

12820619520. C

12820619521. D

Sub-Section Number: 3

Sub-Section Id: 128206224

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Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

Question Id: 1282064939 Question Type: COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

Question Numbers: (11 to 15)

From locked practice in the eighteenth century to being marked as classical 'music' in the twentieth, from princely courts to modern auditoriums. Music's content, which ranged from raucous and ribald to devotional, was rewritten into respectable fare. Music was viewed as one type of entertainment among many others in princely courts, but by the twentieth century, it had become a high art form that occupied pride of place in the national imagination. While its upper-level pedagogy remained dominated by hereditary musicians, it became possible even for respectable middle-class Hindu housewives to imagine themselves as performers.

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Question Number: 11 Question Id: 1282064940 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Choose the correct answer

a. The nature of classical music became closely associated with devotion and respectability.

b. Classical music was marked by ribaldry.

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c. Classical music was irrelevant

Options:

12820619522. A

12820619523. B

12820619524. C

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12820619525. D

Question Number: 12 Question Id: 1282064941 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Building the nation and regenerating music went hand in hand.

a. True

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b. False

Options:

12820619526. A

12820619527. B

12820619528. C

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12820619529. D

Question Number: 13 Question Id: 1282064942 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Why was it possible for middle-class housewives to imagine themselves as performers?

a. Because they did not have to compete with men

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b. Nationalism made music education accessible

Options:

12820619530. A

12820619531. B

12820619532. C

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12820619533. D

Question Number: 14 Question Id: 1282064943 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Would it be right to say that modern auditoriums made it possible for more people to listen to music?

a. Because larger numbers could be seated in the auditorium.

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b. Auditoriums were new spaces where all people who could buy a ticket were allowed entry.

Options:

12820619534. A

12820619535. B

12820619536. C

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12820619537. D

Question Number: 15 Question Id: 1282064944 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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'Public Sphere' has been theorized by

a. Theodor Adorno

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b. Jurgen Habermas

c. Hannah Arendt

d. Walter Benjamin

Options:

12820619538. A

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12820619539. B

12820619540. C

12820619541. D

Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

Question Id: 1282064945 Question Type: COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

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Question Numbers: (16 to 20)

The first performance of the Balinese theatre, which draws mainly on dancing, singing, pantomime and music - and very little on psychological theatre as we understand in Europe - restores the theatre to its level of pure and autonomous creation under the sign of hallucination and of fear. It is quite remarkable that the first of the short plays that make up the programs, which presents the admonishments of a father to a daughter who is rebelling against tradition, begins with an entrance of ghosts. The male and female characters who are going to serve the development of a dramatic but familiar subject appear to us first as personages in their spectral state, in that hallucinatory guise which is attribute of every theatrical character. [...] The drama does not develop as a conflicts of feelings but of states of mind, which are themselves ossified and reduced to gestures - to structures. In short, Balinese are carrying out with the utmost rigor the idea of pure theatre, in which everything, conception and realization alike, has value or existence only in terms of its degree of objectification on the stage.

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Question Number: 16 Question Id: 1282064946 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Author is discussing about

a. European theatre

b. American theatre

c. Asian theatre

d. Greek theatre

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Options:

12820619542. A

12820619543. B

12820619544. C

12820619545. D

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Question Number: 17 Question Id: 1282064947 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Balinese theatre largely draws

a. Physiological acting

b. Psychological acting

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c. Realistic acting

d. None of the above

Options:

12820619546. A

12820619547. B

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12820619548. C

12820619549. D

Question Number: 18 Question Id: 1282064948 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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According to the author, theatre here is

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a. A work of hallucination and fear

b. An extreme psychological work

c. Pure and autonomous creation

d. Actors are ghosts in theatre

Options:

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12820619550. A

12820619551. B

12820619552. C

12820619553. D

Question Number: 19 Question Id: 1282064949 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The author wants to suggest that, Balinese theatre comes to life

a. When ghosts enter the stage

b. When daughter rebels against father

c. When theatres get de-familiarized

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d. When characters enter into a spectral state.

Options:

Question Number: 20 Question Id: 1282064950 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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What is model of theatre in light of this passage

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a. When conception and realization are separated

b. When theatre gets objectified by the market force:

c. When theatre creates conflicts of feelings

d. When theatre acquires a pure state

Options:

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12820619558. A

12820619559. B

12820619560. C

12820619561. D

Sub-Section Number: 5

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Sub-Section Id: 128206226

Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

Question Id: 1282064951 Question Type: COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

Question Numbers: (21 to 25)

We can only call a picture, or rather a color engraving, good if all the lines and colors are brought together into a unified whole. An artist would not make one single dot without a correlation with the general composition of the picture, just as a composer would never introduce a single note without the most elaborate artistic-mechanical calculations. This is the greatest achievement of Meyerhold in his Inspector-General, and on an unprecedented scale. The large stage remains unfilled in most instances (in some scenes it is used, but it does not pretend to be interesting); it is a large semicircle of polished wood with doors. The action is presented to the audience as if in a basket. A certain playing area, where objects and people act, is moved forward according to the director's will. This space is lit up accordingly (with great skill) and resembles a moving bunch of flowers or a most orderly kaleido-scope. The people and the objects follow one another continuously in the incessant dynamics, like color engravings. I contend that absolutely any moment of this large production photographed on a color still would be a finished work of art; I stress: finished to the very last detail."

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Question Number: 21 Question Id: 1282064952 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

According to the author, Meyerhold does not create a unified whole. The statement is:

a. True

b. False

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Options:

12820619562. A

12820619563. B

12820619564. C

12820619565. D

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Question Number: 22 Question Id: 1282064953 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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According to the author, in Inspector-General:

a. Meyerhold does not leave any part of the stage unfilled

b. Large parts of stage are unfilled most of the time

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c. Meyerhold uses flowers in a basket as the main prop

d. None of the above

Options:

12820619566. A

12820619567. B

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12820619568. C

12820619569. D

Question Number: 23 Question Id: 1282064954 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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According to the author, in Inspector-General:

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a. The stage consists of a large semicircle of polished wood with doors

b. Meyerhold uses dim lighting

c. The success of the production was due to the use of engraving and pictures as background

d. All of the above

Options:

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12820619570. A

12820619571. B

12820619572. C

12820619573. D

Question Number: 24 Question Id: 1282064955 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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According to the author, the poor filming of Inspector General is the negative aspect of Meyerhold's theatre. The statement is:

a. True

b. False

Options:

12820619574. A

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12820619575. B

12820619576. C

12820619577. D

Question Number: 25 Question Id: 1282064956 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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According to the author,

a. any single instance of the Inspector General, if photographed, will still be finished to the last detail.

b. The Inspector General was created through a process wherein the director looked at photographs and recreated them through actors.

c. It is a large production and therefore cannot be photographed.

d. none of the above

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Options:

12820619578. A

12820619579. B

12820619580. C

12820619581. D

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Sub-Section Number: 6

Sub-Section Id: 128206227

Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

Question Number: 26 Question Id: 1282064957 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Number of dramatic forms according to Bharata are:

a. 4

b. 7

c. 10

d. 6

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Options:

12820619582. A

12820619583. B

12820619584. C

12820619585. D

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Question Number: 27 Question Id: 1282064958 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Who is the author of the play, Uttara Rama Charitam

a. Bhasa

b. Ashwaghosha

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c. Bhavabhuti

d. Harsha

Options:

12820619586. A

12820619587. B

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