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1. Which one(s) of the following is/are true about Shakespeare's Problem Plays?
   1. They explore ignoble aspects of human nature.

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   2. They deal with some moral problem.
   3. They challenge generic categorisation.
   4. The resolution of the plot seems to be problematic in these plays.
   [Question ID = 5561]
   1. i & ii [Option ID = 22235]
   2. Only iv [Option ID = 22237]

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   3. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22236]
   4. All of these [Option ID = 22238]
   Correct Answer :- All of these [Option ID = 22238]
2. Which of the following is/are true about Shakespeare's major tragic characters ?
   1. Complex and capable of surprising us
   2. Develop throughout the play

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   3. Deep mutual relation and claim our sympathy
   4. Come to a realisation by the end of the play
   [Question ID = 5560]
   1. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22231]
   2. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22233]
   3. All of these [Option ID = 22234]

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   4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22232]
   Correct Answer :- All of these [Option ID = 22234]
3. A doodle means a [Question ID = 5571]
   1. slogan on a wall [Option ID = 22277]
   2. line drawing made to invoke laughter [Option ID = 22276]
   3. rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]

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   4. doddering person [Option ID = 22278]
   Correct Answer :- rough drawing made absent-mindedly [Option ID = 22275]
4. Identify the wrong combination of author and book. [Question ID = 5576]
   1. White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
   2. For Whom the Bells Tolls - Ernest Hemingway [Option ID = 22296]
   3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [Option ID = 22298]

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   4. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai [Option ID = 22295]
   Correct Answer :- White Tiger - Hanif Qureshi [Option ID = 22297]
5. One feature that we easily notice about Shakespeare's tragedies is their verbosity, because:
   1. Tragedy comes with an unspeakable element
   2. Its characters struggle for meaning
   3. The characters are charismatic speakers

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   4. They address fundamental problems of human experience [Question ID = 5559]
   1. All of these [Option ID = 22230]
   2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22227]
   3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22229]
   4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22228]

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   Correct Answer :- All of these [Option ID = 22230]
6. In Elizabethan play a Machiavelli character is:
   1. A stage villain, full of cunning, calculation, wickedness and selfishness
   2. A character threatening to create political chaos and disorder
   3. A historical figure
   4. A pupil of Machiavelli [Question ID = 5562]

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   1. i & ii [Option ID = 22239]
   2. All of these [Option ID = 22242]
   3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22240]
   4. iii & iv [Option ID = 22241]
   Correct Answer :- i & ii [Option ID = 22239]

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7. What is the concept of negritude? [Question ID = 5569]
   1. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Edward Said [Option ID = 22270]
   2. It was introduced to postcolonial studies by Franz Fanon [Option ID = 22269]
   3. It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over. [Option ID = 22268]
   4. It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers [Option ID = 22267]
   Correct Answer :- It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by the blacks world over. [Option ID = 22268]

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8. What is the study of poetic meter and form called? [Question ID = 5572]
   1. Eulogy [Option ID = 22282]
   2. Tautology [Option ID = 22281]
   3. Prosody [Option ID = 22279]
   4. Rhetoric [Option ID = 22280]
   Correct Answer :- Prosody [Option ID = 22279]

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9. Realism stands for...
   1. A literary movement in 19th C
   2. A mode to represent life and experience in literature
   3. The depiction of subject with scientific objectivity
   4. The depiction of life as it really is
   [Question ID = 5566]
   1. i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]

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   2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22255]
   3. All of these [Option ID = 22258]
   4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22256]
   Correct Answer :- i, ii& iv [Option ID = 22257]
10. Arrange the art history periods in the correct sequence:
    1. Renaissance

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    2. Medieval
    3. Baroque
    4. Mannerism [Question ID = 5570]
    1. i, iv, iii, ii [Option ID = 22272]
    2. ii, iv, i, iii [Option ID = 22273]

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    3. ii, i, iii, iv [Option ID = 22271]
    4. ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
    Correct Answer :- ii, i, iv, iii [Option ID = 22274]
11. Assertion (A): Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet and is at times contrasted with narrative poetry and verse drama, which relate events in the form of a story.
    Reason (R): Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre relates events in the form of a story and therefore is a perfect example of a lyric poetry. [Question ID = 5548]
    1. Both (A) and (R) are true [Option ID = 22183]

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    2. (A) is false and (R) is true [Option ID = 22184]
    3. Both (A) and (R) might be true and (A) is the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22185]
    4. Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
    Correct Answer :- Both (A) and (R) might be true, but (A) is not the correct explanation for (R) [Option ID = 22186]
12. Plato's Republic introduces the principle of specialization-'The result, then, is that more plentiful and better-quality goods are more easily produced if each person does one thing for which he is naturally suited, does it at the right time, and is released from having to do any of the others.'
    

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    The above principle of specialisation refers to the principle that... [Question ID = 5553]
    1. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]
    2. everyone does that to which their nature best suits them and interfere in other trades as well. [Option ID = 22206]
    3. everyone should act against his/her nature to diverge themselves but should not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22203]
    4. everyone should act against their nature to diverge themselves and interfere in other trades. [Option ID = 22204]
    Correct Answer :- everyone does that to which their nature best suits them, and not meddle in any other business. [Option ID = 22205]

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13. Match List-I with List-II and choose the appropriate option from the codes given below:
    

    List I	List II
    (i) The world is my oyster	1. Simile
    (ii) The vines wove their delicate fingers together	2. Hyperbole
    (iii) My mouth was as dry as a bone	3. Metaphor
    (iv) You snore louder than a freight train!	4. Personification

    Code: [Question ID = 5574]
    1. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       1 2 3 4 [Option ID = 22290]
    2. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       3 4 1 2 [Option ID = 22289]

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    3. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       2 4 3 1 [Option ID = 22287]
    4. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       4 2 1 3 [Option ID = 22288]
    Correct Answer :-
    1. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       

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       3 4 1 2 [Option ID = 22289]
14. Fill in the blank with the appropriate option
    __________ is an avant-garde movement, based primarily in France, that seeks to break down the boundaries between rational and irrational, conscious and unconscious, through a variety of literary and artistic experiments. [Question ID = 5565]
    1. Existentialism [Option ID = 22253]
    2. Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]

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    3. Magic Realism [Option ID = 22251]
    4. Atheism [Option ID = 22252]
    Correct Answer :- Surrealism [Option ID = 22254]
15. Match List-I with List-II and choose the appropriate option from the codes given below:
    

    List-I	List-II
    (i) Prima facie	1. Public opinion
    (ii) Carte blanche	2. Accepted as so until proven otherwise
    (iii) Carpe diem	3. Unlimited authority
    (iv) Vox populi	4. Seize the day

    [Question ID = 5549]
    1. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       

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       3 4 1 2 [Option ID = 22189]
    2. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       1 2 4 3 [Option ID = 22190]
    3. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       2 3 4 1 [Option ID = 22188]

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    4. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       1 4 3 2 [Option ID = 22187]
    Correct Answer :-
    1. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       2 3 4 1 [Option ID = 22188]

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16. Match List-I with List-II and choose the appropriate option from the codes given below:
    

    List-I	List-II
    i. Samuel Taylor Coleridge	a. Auguries of Innocence
    ii. William Blake	b. Ozymandias
    iii. P.B.Shelley	c. The Tour of Doctor Syntax
    iv. William Combe	d. Christabel

    [Question ID = 5564]
    1. ia, iib, iiic, iv - d [Option ID = 22248]
    2. ic, iib, iiid, iva [Option ID = 22247]
    3. id, iic, iiib, iva [Option ID = 22249]
    4. id, iia, iii - b, iv - c [Option ID = 22250]

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    Correct Answer :- i-d, ii-a, iii – b, iv - c [Option ID = 22250]
17. Match List-I with List-II and choose the appropriate option from the codes given below:
    

    List-I	List-II
    i. One Part Woman	1. Ajay Navaria
    ii. The Gypsy Goddess	2. Kancha Illaiah
    iii. Untouchable God	3. Perumal Murugan
    iv. Unclaimed Terrain	4. Meena Kandasamy

    [Question ID = 5546]
    1. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       4 3 1 2 [Option ID = 22177]
    2. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       

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       3 4 2 1 [Option ID = 22178]
    3. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       1 4 3 2 [Option ID = 22175]
    4. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       2 3 4 1 [Option ID = 22176]

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    Correct Answer :-
    1. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
       3 4 2 1 [Option ID = 22178]
18. "The end of a work of art is simply to exist in its formal perfection, that is, to be beautiful and to be contemplated as an end in itself." Based on this statement certain inferences are given below. Identify the ones which completely approximates with this statement.
    1. This statement stresses on the form of the work, hence this can be read as a mouthpiece of formalistic criticism
    2. This statement has similarities to the rallying cry of Aestheticism which is also called "l'art pour l'art" (Art for Art's sake)

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    3. This statement stresses the religion of beauty as posited by Flaubert and Mallarme
    4. This statement anticipates the theory of the New Critics which highlight the autonomy and the artistry of a work of art
    [Question ID = 5552]
    1. Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
    2. None of these [Option ID = 22202]
    3. All of these [Option ID = 22199]

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    4. Only i & iv [Option ID = 22200]
    Correct Answer :- Only ii & iii [Option ID = 22201]
19. Match List-I with List-II and choose the appropriate option from the codes given below:
    

    List I	List II
    i. Bharat	1. Vakroktijivita
    ii. Anandvardhan	2. Vakyapadeeya
    iii. Bhartrhari	3. Natyashastra
    iv. Kuntak	4. Dhvanyaloka

    [Question ID = 5545]
    1. i ii iii iv
       4 3 2 1 [Option ID = 22174]

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    2. i ii iii iv
       3 2 4 1 [Option ID = 22173]
    3. i ii iii iv
       3 4 2 1 [Option ID = 22171]
    4. i ii iii iv
       

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       2 3 1 4 [Option ID = 22172]
    Correct Answer :-
    1. i ii iii iv
       3 4 2 1 [Option ID = 22171]
20. Read the passage given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate sequence of sentences.
    

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    Forster's lifelong refusal to permit his novel to be filmed begins to look rather sensible. But once a revisionist enterprise gets under way, the mere wishes of a dead novelist provide no obstacle.
    ... The continuing decline, the growing poverty and the meanness of spirit of much of Thatcherite Britain encourages many Britons to turn their eyes nostalgically to the lost hour of their precedence. The recrudescence of imperialist ideology and the popularity of Raj fictions put one in mind of the phantom twitchings of an amputated limb.
    ... in which it begins once again to strut and posture like a great power while in fact its power diminishes every year. The jewel in the crown is made, these days, of paste.
    1. And there can be little doubt that in Britain today the refurbishment of the Empire's tarnished image is underway.
    2. 'Let's Take the "Great" out of Britain', that the idea of a great Britain (originally just a collective term for the countries of the British Isles, but repeatedly used to bolster the myth of national grandeur) has bedevilled the actions of all post-war governments.
    3. Britain is in danger of entering a condition of cultural psychosis,

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    4. But it was Margaret Thatcher who, in the euphoria of the Falklands victory, most plainly nailed her colours to the old colonial mast, claiming that the success in the South Atlantic proved that the British were still the people 'who had ruled a quarter of the world.'
    [Question ID = 5547]
    1. I & Iv [Option ID = 22181]
    2. II & III [Option ID = 22182]
    3. I & iii [Option ID = 22180]
    4. 4. I & ii [Option ID = 22179]

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    Correct Answer :- ii & iii [Option ID = 22182]
21. Arrange the sentences P, Q, R, S given below in the appropriate order
    It is the....
    (P) As the reader uses various perspectives offered to him by the text in order to relate the patterns and the "schematised views" to one another, he sets the work in motion, and this very process results ultimately in the awakening of responses within himself.
    (Q) Virtuality of the work that gives rise to its dynamic nature, and this in turn is the precondition for the effects that work calls forth.
    

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    (R) That this is no new discovery is apparent from references made even in the early days of the novel.
    (S) Thus, reading causes the literary work to unfold its inherently dynamic character. [Question ID = 5555]
    1. PQRS [Option ID = 22211]
    2. SPQR [Option ID = 22213]
    3. RSQP [Option ID = 22212]
    4. QPSR [Option ID = 22214]

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    Correct Answer :- QPSR [Option ID = 22214]
22. Arrange the sentences P, Q, R, S given below in the appropriate order.
    P. The infant girl also experiences herself as an identified with her mother, as does the infant boy.
    Q. Because of her own gender identity, the mother identifies with her girl child more than with her boy child.
    R. In relating to her daughter she unconsciously replays many of the ambiguities and identifications she experienced with her own mother.
    

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    S. The mother thus often tends to relate to her daughter more as an extension of herself than as a separate person. [Question ID = 5551]
    1. PQRS [Option ID = 22195]
    2. SPRQ [Option ID = 22197]
    3. QRSP [Option ID = 22196]
    4. RPQS [Option ID = 22198]
    Correct Answer :- QRSP [Option ID = 22196]

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23. Read the passage given below and select the most appropriate option.
    "As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
    The speaker is implying that: [Question ID = 5567]
    1. Books are poisonous which sterilize the world [Option ID = 22261]
    2. Books are the most disgraceful form of art [Option ID = 22260]
    3. All of these [Option ID = 22262]

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    4. Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
    Correct Answer :- Art cannot be either moral or immoral [Option ID = 22259]
24. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate option from the choices given below.
    In "Women's Time" Julia Kristeva's main __________ appears to be that in a modern society, human history attempts to regulate human behaviour into a kind of __________ which implies a certain dogma that is limiting and oppressive. Kristeva believes that feminism is in a position of becoming like religion, with all the limits and __________. According to Kristeva, feminism is in danger, because it has become (or is becoming) too __________ and restrictive, and therefore must be replaced.
    1. religion
    2. restrictions

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    3. codified
    4. argument
    [Question ID = 5556]
    1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22218]
    2. i, iv, ii, iii [Option ID = 22217]
    3. i, iii, iv, ii [Option ID = 22215]

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    4. iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
    Correct Answer :- iv. i, ii, iii [Option ID = 22216]
25. Fill in the blank with the appropriate option
    94. The combination of far-fetched circumstances with a terse moral suggests that this is a __________ [Question ID = 5575]
    1. parable [Option ID = 22292]
    2. sermon [Option ID = 22293]

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    3. folktale [Option ID = 22291]
    4. fable [Option ID = 22294]
    Correct Answer :- parable [Option ID = 22292]
26. Match List-I with List-II and choose the appropriate option from the codes given below:
    

    List-I	List-II
    i. Carnivalesque	a. Eliot
    ii. Differance	b. Brecht
    iii. Alienation effect	c. Derrida
    iv. Objective correlative	d. Bakhtin

    [Question ID - 5554]
    1. ia, iib, iiic, iv - d [Option ID = 22208]

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    2. ic, iib, iiid, iva [Option ID = 22207]
    3. id, iic, iii - b, iv - a [Option ID = 22209]
    4. i-d, ii-a, iii – c, iv – b [Option ID = 22210]
    Correct Answer :- i-d, iic, iii - b, iv - a [Option ID = 22209]
27. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option from the choices given below
    

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    Society, __________, and culture are three concepts whose meaning has changed recently, each change in one affecting the meaning of the other two as well. In short, each concept has conformed to a __________ model: society, for instance, previously referred to active fellowship or company but in a bourgeois context refers to "civil society," or commercial society. The meaning of economy has changed from __________ of household and community to the system of __________ production, distribution, exchange, and __________ of modern capitalism.
    1. bourgeois
    2. management
    3. economy
    4. consumption
    [Question ID = 5550]
    1. i, ii, iii, iv [Option ID = 22193]

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    2. iv,i,iii, ii [Option ID = 22191]
    3. ii, iii, iv, i [Option ID = 22194]
    4. iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
    Correct Answer :- iii, i, ii, iv [Option ID = 22192]
28. What is used as "vehicle" in the sentence "The camel is the ship of the desert." [Question ID = 5573]
    1. Ship [Option ID = 22284]

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    2. Camel [Option ID = 22283]
    3. Desert [Option ID = 22285]
    4. None of these [Option ID = 22286]
    Correct Answer :- Ship [Option ID = 22284]
29. In Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies a significant number of characters of the subplot:
    1. come from the lower strata of society or behave like them

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    2. parody the main plot
    3. wittingly / unwittingly help to sort out the problem of the characters in the main plot
    4. interacts with main plot at the end where everyone joins the celebrations
    [Question ID = 5557]
    1. i& ii [Option ID = 22219]
    2. iii & iv [Option ID = 22221]

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    3. ii & iii [Option ID = 22220]
    4. All of these [Option ID = 22222]
    Correct Answer :- All of these [Option ID = 22222]
30. Which of the following are the substance of "Shakespearean Tragedy"?
    1. It is a story of a single man of high stature.
    2. He has some tragic flaw, and acts as an agent of tragedy.

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    3. He is subjected to unusually intense suffering.
    4. The last act results in the catastrophe that brings death to the major characters. [Question ID = 5558]
    1. All of these [Option ID = 22226]
    2. i, ii & iii [Option ID = 22223]
    3. i, ii & iv [Option ID = 22225]

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    4. ii, iii & iv [Option ID = 22224]
    Correct Answer :- All of these [Option ID = 22226]
31. Fill in the blank with the appropriate option :
    __________ is a genre of late-18th-century literature that featured brooding, mysterious settings and plots and set the stage for what we now call "horror stories." Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, set inside a medieval castle, was the first major novel of this genre. [Question ID = 5563]
    1. Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
    2. Symbolism [Option ID = 22246]

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    3. Pre-Raphaelitism [Option ID = 22243]
    4. Naturalism [Option ID = 22244]
    Correct Answer :- Gothic Fiction [Option ID = 22245]
32. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option
    __________ is an American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England that focused on the primacy of the individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" and Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" are famous works of this movement. [Question ID = 5568]
    1. Dark Romanticism [Option ID = 22265]

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    2. Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]
    3. Imagism [Option ID = 22264]
    4. Formalism [Option ID = 22266]
    Correct Answer :- Transcendentalism [Option ID = 22263]

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