Read the passage. Choose the most appropriate option from the options given:…
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Read the passage. Choose the most appropriate option from the options given:
As part of the great cultural renaissance generated during the post-independence period, there has occurred a most meaningful encounter with tradition in various fields of creative activity. The return to and discovery of tradition was inspired by a search for roots and a quest for identity. This was a part of the whole process of decolonization of our lifestyle, values, social institutions, creative forms and cultural modes.
The modern Indian theatre, product of a colonial theatrical culture, felt the need to search for roots most intensely to match its violent dislocation from the traditional course. Directors like B.V. Karanth, K.N. Panikar and Ratan Thiyam have had a most meaningful encounter with tradition and, with their work, have reversed the colonial course of contemporary theatre and put it back on the track of the great Natyashastra tradition. It sounds paradoxical, but their theatre is both avant-garde in the context of conventional realistic theatre, and still belongs to the Natyashastra theatrical tradition.
The return to and discovery of tradition in the post-independence era was inspired by
A. Search for values
B. Search for roots
C. Search for realism
D. Search for identity
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: D. B & D only — ConceptIn passage-based multiple-statement questions, test each statement against the author’s explicit wording. Accept a statement only when the passage…
- A.
A & B only
- B.
D & C only
- C.
B, C & D only
- D.
B & D only
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Correct answer: D
Concept
In passage-based multiple-statement questions, test each statement against the author’s explicit wording.
Accept a statement only when the passage directly supports it; do not substitute a related theme or an inferred idea.
Application
Statement A proposes a search for values. The passage mentions values as something being decolonized, not as the stated inspiration for returning to tradition.
Statement B proposes a search for roots. The passage explicitly says that the return to and discovery of tradition was inspired by a search for roots.
Statement C proposes a search for realism. The passage describes conventional realistic theatre only as a context of comparison; it does not name realism as the inspiration.
Statement D proposes a search for identity. The same sentence explicitly pairs the search for roots with a quest for identity.
Contrast
A & B only includes values, although values are listed under decolonization rather than the motivating search.
D & C only includes realism, which appears as a theatrical comparison rather than the motivation.
B, C & D only again adds realism to the two explicitly stated motivations.
Cross-check and result
The decisive sentence names exactly two motivations: a search for roots and a quest for identity. Thus the supported combination is B & D only.