CBSE Class 12 English The Interview MCQs Set 03

Question: What do Rudyard Kipling and his wife express about interviews?
a) Immoral
b) Not good
c) Very bad
d) Immoral and offensive crime against a person
Answer: d

Question: What are some of the positive traits of interviews?
a) Brings out the truth and gives vivid impression of contemporaries
b) Helps finding hidden talents
c) Useful medium of communication
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: According to Umberto, what will happen to the world if we eliminate empty spaces from the universe?
a) The world will become beautiful
b) The world will be completely ours
c) The world will shrink and will become as big as a fish
d) The world will be round
Answer: c

Question: What facts are being showcased in the interview held between Eco and Padamnabhan?
a) He takes pride in being an academician, a university Professor first
b) Being a novelist is a secondary thing for him
c) Uses his free time for writing novels
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: What was distinctive (special) about Eco’s academic writing style?
a) His realistic narrative style with trial and errors
b) His interrogative style
c) His monotonous unrealistic style
d) Fictitious imaginative style
Answer: a

Question: What is the reason for huge success of the novel The Name of The Rose?
a) Mystic
b) Metaphysics and medieval history period used
c) Detective style and theology
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: Who is the author of the lesson The Interview?
a) Christopher Priest
b) Christopher Silvester (1959)
c) J.B. Priestley
d) Alfred John Churchley
Answer: b

Question: What do his works for children speak about?
a) His passion for children
b) Non-violence and peace
c) Children love to be happy
d) Children are nuisance
Answer: b

Question: What in today’s world is our main source of information?
a) Social media
b) Newspapers
c) Short screens
d) Interviews and interactions
Answer: d

Question: While being interviewed by Mukand, Umberto speaks about his philosophy and novel. What does he point out at?
a) He loves writing
b) He loves to be in spotlight
c) At empty spaces in the universe — interstices
d) At the universe and its workings
Answer: c

Question: According to an old saying, what happens when perceptions are made about a person?
a) Person feels happy
b) The original identity of his soul is lost
c) Person feels irritated
d) Person becomes popular
Answer: b

Question: In what way have interviews become a common place of journalism?
a) Because of its power, influence and medium of communication
b) Because of its pomp
c) Because of its glory
d) Because of its rapport
Answer: a

Question: How does Umberto Eco find so much time to write so much?
a) Using early morning time
b) Using his office time
c) Using empty spaces (free times) like waiting for someone, break time
d) Using his family time
Answer: c

Question: What is a primitive view about being photographed?
a) Person’s soul is stolen
b) Part of personality is lost
c) Person can be commanded
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: How many scholarly works are to his credit?
a) More than 5
b) More than 40
c) More than 20
d) More than 10
Answer: b

Question: Which period of history do Umberto’s novels deal with?
a) Renaissance
b) Medieval period
c) Modern era
d) Dark age
Answer: b

Question: Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?
a) They don’t like journalists
b) Unwarranted intrusion in their life
c) Their privacy is hurt
d) None
Answer: b

Question: How many novels has Umberto written?
a) 5
b) 8
c) 15
d) 10
Answer: a

Question: What is an interview?
a) A medium of talking to the people
b) A medium to spread rumours
c) A medium to be the talk of the town
d) A medium of interaction and introspection
Answer: d

Question: The excerpt The Interview has been taken from which book?
a) Christopher’s introduction to The Penguin Book of Interviews
b) Features for Vanity Fair
c) The Name of the Rose
d) None
Answer: a

Question: Why were the journalists and publishers puzzled by the success of The Name of the Rose?
a) Because readers like trash and it was a serious novel
b) Because it was becoming popular
c) Because of its high-rated success
d) None
Answer: a

Question: What does Naipaul present in his travel books?
a) His feelings
b) His feelings about interviews
c) Impression of the country of his ancestors that is India
d) None
Answer: c

Question: Why did Umberto start writing novels?
a) To make best use of empty spaces means free time
b) To be in limelight
c) To share his views
d) To avail an opportunity
Answer: a

Question: At what age was Eco’s book published?
a) At the age of 20
b) At the age of 25
c) At the age of 22
d) At the age of 26
Answer: c

Question: What did he present in this book?
a) Varied opinions of politicians
b) Varied opinions of civilians
c) Varied opinions of armymen
d) Varied opinions of celebrities regarding an interview
Answer: d

Question: What do you understand by the expression ‘Thumbprints on his windpipes’?
a) Creating excessive pressure on throat
b) Creating excessive pressure on vocal cords
c) Creating excessive pressure and tension for someone
d) None
Answer: c

Question: What days did he use to write novels?
a) Saturday night
b) Sundays
c) Every evening
d) Friday night
Answer: b

Question: What kind of a novel was The Name of The Rose?
a) Hilarious
b) Fiction
c) Non-fiction
d) A serious one
Answer: d

Question: What ideas do you form of Umberto’s personality after his interview with Mukand?
a) A very rigid person
b) A boastful and arrogant
c) An academician with philosophical and ethical interest
d) An illusionary vision
Answer: c

Question: Why do the celebrities feel embarrassed most often?
a) Because of question attacks during interviews
b) Because of interviewer’s gestures
c) Because of interviewer’s appearance
d) None
Answer: a

Question: Why does Eco call the success of his book a mystery?
a) Because of its success
b) Because of its popularity
c) Because of many factors
d) Because of many factors and many other books were written on the same medieval period
Answer: d

Question: Who has written Alice in Wonderland?
a) Christopher
b) Mukand
c) Rudyard Kipling
d) Lewis Caroll
Answer: d

Question: What satisfied Umberto’s taste for narration?
a) Stories
b) Children’s works
c) Interviews
d) Novels
Answer: d

Question: What impression is formed of Umberto after reading the lesson The Interview?
a) A person of vision and firm convictions
b) A person of character
c) A person of words
d) A person of substance
Answer: a

Question: What does writing novels on Sundays signify?
a) Writing novels — his passion
b) Writing novels — his need
c) Writing novels — his casual job
d) Writing novels — his interest
Answer: c

Question: Explain Denis Brain’s statement “Almost everything of moment reaches us through one man asking questions of others.”
a) The interviewer has the power
b) The interviewer has status
c) The interviewer can elicit the truth and has the power to influence
d) All these
Answer: c

Question: Why was Lewis Caroll’s opinion of interviews and autographs one of horror?
a) Wonder
b) Terror
c) Horror
d) None
Answer: c

Question: At what age did he start writing novels?
a) At the age of 55
b) At the age of 50
c) At the age of 57
d) At the age of 52
Answer: b

Question: Enumerate ‘An Interview is a supremely serviceable medium of communication.’
a) A medium to gossip
b) A noble medium of interaction and introspection
c) A medium to prosper
d) A medium to be the talk of the town
Answer: b

Question: What does V.S. Naipaul feel about interviews?
a) Horror
b) Happy
c) Wounded
d) None
Answer: c