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[124]. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.

Passage: Folk theatre in Bihar has long been a school without walls. Travelling troupes performed stories from epics, local legends and village life on open grounds, using song, dialogue, humour and simple costumes to hold a crowd that might include people who could not read. A performance did more than entertain: it taught moral lessons, mocked corrupt officials, preserved local dialect and gave a village a shared evening of laughter and argument. The actors were often farmers and artisans who rehearsed after work. Today television and mobile phones compete for the same evenings, and many troupes struggle to survive. Yet wherever folk theatre still performs, it proves that a story told face to face can do what a screen cannot: gather a community in one place. In the context of the passage, the word 'troupe' most nearly means:

1.
a single example of a plant or animal collected for study
2.
a book or document written by hand before printing
3.
a group of travelling performers
4.
moving back, becoming smaller over time
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 3 : a group of travelling performers

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सही उत्तर a group of travelling performers है।

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In this passage 'troupe' means: a group of travelling performers.

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[124]. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.

Passage: Folk theatre in Bihar has long been a school without walls. Travelling troupes performed stories from epics, local legends and village life on open grounds, using song, dialogue, humour and simple costumes to hold a crowd that might include people who could not read. A performance did more than entertain: it taught moral lessons, mocked corrupt officials, preserved local dialect and gave a village a shared evening of laughter and argument. The actors were often farmers and artisans who rehearsed after work. Today television and mobile phones compete for the same evenings, and many troupes struggle to survive. Yet wherever folk theatre still performs, it proves that a story told face to face can do what a screen cannot: gather a community in one place. In the context of the passage, the word 'troupe' most nearly means:

1.
a single example of a plant or animal collected for study
2.
a book or document written by hand before printing
3.
a group of travelling performers
4.
moving back, becoming smaller over time

Correct Answer: a group of travelling performers

In this passage 'troupe' means: a group of travelling performers.

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