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[116]. 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. In the passage on folk theatre, the word 'debate' is used most nearly to mean

1.
The opposite of the passage's sense
2.
A purely technical term
3.
A place name
4.
debate and response
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 4 : debate and response

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सही उत्तर debate and response है।

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In context, 'debate' conveys debate and response.

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[116]. 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. In the passage on folk theatre, the word 'debate' is used most nearly to mean

1.
The opposite of the passage's sense
2.
A purely technical term
3.
A place name
4.
debate and response

Correct Answer: debate and response

In context, 'debate' conveys debate and response.

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