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[114]. Passage:

Folk theatre survives not because it is old, but because it is useful. A travelling troupe can turn a village square into a courtroom, a classroom and a festival in one evening, using song, mask and direct address to debate dowry, debt or migration. Audiences interrupt, laugh and argue back, so the play is never finished until the last spectator leaves. To preserve folk theatre, then, is not to film it and file it away; it is to keep its stages, performers and argumentative audiences alive. On the passage about folk theatre, what is its central argument?

1.
argumentative audience
2.
It argues only for more funding without any change
3.
It argues the subject should be abandoned
4.
It argues only experts should decide
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 1 : argumentative audience

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सही उत्तर argumentative audience है।

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The passage centres on argumentative audience.

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[114]. Passage:

Folk theatre survives not because it is old, but because it is useful. A travelling troupe can turn a village square into a courtroom, a classroom and a festival in one evening, using song, mask and direct address to debate dowry, debt or migration. Audiences interrupt, laugh and argue back, so the play is never finished until the last spectator leaves. To preserve folk theatre, then, is not to film it and file it away; it is to keep its stages, performers and argumentative audiences alive. On the passage about folk theatre, what is its central argument?

1.
argumentative audience
2.
It argues only for more funding without any change
3.
It argues the subject should be abandoned
4.
It argues only experts should decide

Correct Answer: argumentative audience

The passage centres on argumentative audience.

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