Flamingo Prose Chapter 7 The Interview English Core - Flamingo Prose Chapter 7 The Interview

Saul Bellow, who has consented to be interviewed on several occasions, nevertheless once
described interviews as being like thumbprints on his windpipe. Yet despite the drawbacks of the interview, it is
a supremely serviceable medium of communication. These days more than at any other time,our most vivid
impressions of our contemporaries are through interviews. Dennis Brian has written Almost everything of
moment reaches us through one man asking questions of another. Because of this, the interviewer holds a
position of unprecedented power and influence.

(a)How would you describe Denis Brians opinion on interviews? Choose the most appropriate options.

(1)Appeasing
(2)utilitarian
(3)approving
(4)praising

(i)Options (1) and (2)
(ii)options (3) and (4)
(iii)options (2) and (3)
(iv)options (1) and (4)

(b)According to Saul Bellow,interviews are like thumbprints on his windpipe,What emotion might best describe
such an image?

(c)Why does Dennis Brian state that the interviewer occupies a position of power and influence?

(d)The use of the word serviceable implies that interviews are powerful.(True/False)

(e) In which of the following statements has the word ‘unprecedented power” been used appropriately?
(i)Technology now gives the state unprecedented power to monitor the lives of individuala.
(ii)This was interpreted that some unprecedented power has descended at the temple.
(iii)His unprecedented power to create whirlwind for mass destruction made him one of the most fearsome evil
forces
(iv)She interviewed six women who with their unprecedented power have reached positions of great power and
influence.

(f)Contemporaries means the opposite of:
(i)present
(ii)latest
(iii)in vogue
(iv)preceding

Others usually celebrities who see themselves as its victims,might despise the interview as an unwarranted
intrusion into their lives,or feel that it somehow diminishes them,just as in some primitive cultures it is believed
that if one takes a photographic portrait of somebody then one is stealing that person’s soul.V.S.Naipaul feels
that some people are wounded by interviews and lose a part of themselves.Lewis Caroll the creator of Alice in
Wonderland was said to have had a just horror of the interviewer and he never consented to be interviewed.

(1)Choose the appropriate option with reference to the given extract

Most of the celebrities dislike being interviewed because
(i)It is sheer nonsense
(ii)Nobody reveals his/her inner self.
(iii)It is sheer waste of time
(iv)It is an unwanted intrusion into their lives

(2)Complete the analogy with a word from the extract

Light : darkness : ...................... :refused

(3)In primitive cultures,being photographed implied...........

(4)From the given extract,we know that ..............never agreed to be interviewed.

(5)In the given extract,the word diminish most nearly means
(i)deepens
(ii)disappoints
(iii)lessens
(iv)languishes

(6)In the given extract,the writer indicates that most people............interviews
(i)celebrated
(ii)read
(iii)gave
(iv)despised

Mukund Padmanabhan was gifted the ‘Penguin Book of Interviews - An Anthology from 1859 to the Present Day’ edited by Christopher Silvester, after interviewing Eco.

He shared his thoughts on his personal blog exploring his own concerns about interviewing a distinguished writer like Eco, followed by an evaluation of the interview in light of his reading.

As Mukund Padmanabhan, write the blog post.