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Flamingo Prose Chapter 7 The Interview — ENGLISH [FL] STD 12 Science — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceENGLISH [FL]Flamingo Prose Chapter 7 The Interview3 Marks
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It is a marked departure from a regular academic style- which is invariably depersonalised and often dry and boring. Have you consciously adopted an informal approach or is it something that just came naturally to you.
Questions
Q.1. Who is speaking the above lines?
A. Umberto EcoB. Christopher SilvesterC. Mukund PadmanabhanD. V S Naipaul
Q.2. Who Is being Interviewed?
A. Umberto EcoB. Christopher SilvesterC. Mukund PadmanabhanD. V S Naipaul
Q.3. What style was the specialty of the interviewee?
A. Writing in the academic manner.B. Writing in an informal and narrative manner.
C. Writing in a depersonalized manner.D. Writing in a dry and boring manner.
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Answer

1- C. Mukund Padmanabhan
2- A. Umberto Eco
3- B. Writing in an informal and narrative manner

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I wanted to get an idea of the periodical before I spent a considerable sum in postage sending a manuscript to England. In those days, the British Council Library had an entrance with no long-winded signboards and notices to make you feel you were sneaking into a forbidden area. And there were copies of The Encounter lying about in various degrees of freshness, almost untouched by readers.

When I read the editor’s name, I heard a bell ringing in my shrunken heart. It was the poet who had visited the Gemini Studios-I felt like I had found a long lost brother and I sang as I sealed the envelope and wrote out his address.

I felt that he too would be singing the same song at the same time-long lost brothers of Indian films discover each other by singing the same song in the first reel and in the final reel of the film. Stephen Spender. Stephen-that was his name.
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Q.2. Here ‘Gemini literati’ means ………………………………….. of Gemini Studios.
A. ‘Versatile actors’ B. ‘Painters’  C. ‘intellectuals’ or ‘master minds’  D. ‘Spot boys’

Q.3. ‘I heard a bell ringing in my shrunken heart’. Another expression for these words is:
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C. ‘A hope enlivened in his disappointment’.    D. ‘His last hope also disappeared’.

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Gandhi protested against the delay. He read a statement pleading guilty. He was involved, he told the court, in a “conflict of duties” – on the one hand, not to set a bad example as a lawbreaker; on the other hand, to render the “humanitarian and national service” for which he had come.

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A. watchfulB. bewilderedC. confusedD. muddled
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