CBSE Class 12 English Poets and Pancakes MCQs Set 03

Multiple Choice Questions

Question. In this lesson, what is the purpose of humor and satire used by the author?
(a) To highlight human abilities
(b) To show capabilities
(c) To show varied capacities
(d) To show and highlight human infancies and flaws
Answer: d

Question. How was Kothamanglam Subbu treated in the Gemini studio?
(a) With hatred
(b) Rudely
(c) Disrespectfully
(d) With high respect
Answer: d

Question. How does the author come to know that English author was Stephen Spender?
(a) From a painting
(b) From the newspaper
(c) From a television show
(d) From a book- The God that failed
Answer: d

Question. ‘In any case, there was this man in the make-up department who would wish the direst things for Subbu’. Here ‘direst things’ refers to something that is
(a) urgent
(b) desperate
(c) disastrous
(d) dreadful
Answer: d

Question. What does the expression ‘made to look ugly’ refer to ?
(a) Make-up done to look presentable before camera
(b) Faces made by actors
(c) Faces nade by office boy
(d) Arrangements in the make-up room
Answer: a

Question.  What is the example of National Integration in Poets and Pancakes?
(a) Make-up department of Gemini
(b) Rehersal room
(c) Office of Gemini studio
(d) None
Answer: a

Question. Why was Subbu considered number 2 at Gemini studio?
(a) Because of his flattery
(b) Because of his abilities
(c) Because of creative skills
(d) None
Answer: c

Question. What does the expression ‘ fiery misery’ mean?
(a) The glow of lights
(b) The bright lights
(c) The bright colorful dresses of heroines
(d) Discomfort to the actors in the make-up room
Answer: d

Question. What does his book “My Years with Boss” talk of ?
(a) his job
(b) The nature of his boss
(c) His environment
(d) Impact of movies on every aspect of life in India.
Answer: d

Question. Who was Greta Garbo?
(a) A Swedish actress- an Oscar winner
(b) A German actress
(c) A French actress
(d) A Bengali actress
Answer: a

Question. What was Asokamitran’s job in the studio?
(a) To arrange pancakes
(b) To arrange make-up kits
(c) To serve water
(d) To cut out newspaper clippings on a wide variety of subjects and store them in files.
Answer: d

Question. What things attracted the audience in the plays staged by MRA?
(a) Their jewellery
(b) Their make up
(c) Their dialogues
(d) Their sets and costumes
Answer: d

Question. Who was the founder of Gemini studio?
(a) Mr. S.S Vasan
(b) English man
(c) A Tamil boy
(d) A director
Answer: a

Question. Why did everybody in the studio think of giving some work to the author?
(a) Because of the idle appearance of his work
(b) Because he was an office boy
(c) Because he was a helper
(d) None
Answer: a

Question. Why did the office boy in the make-up room come to the author?
(a) Because he was unemployed
(b) Because of his interest in literary arts and film making
(c) To earn money
(d) To do make-up
Answer: b

Question. What has been the make-up room compared to?
(a) A make up company
(b) A parlour
(c) A jewellery shop
(d) A hair-cutting salon
Answer: d

Question. For whom was Gemini studio making films?
(a) For English people
(b) For illiterate
(c) For elderly peole
(d) For simple Tamilians who have no interest in English poetry
Answer: d

Question. Why is the Englishman’s visit referred as unexplained mystery?
(a) Because of his appearance
(b) Because of his dress
(c) Because of his hairstyle
(d) Because of his unfamiliarity and baffled looks
Answer: d

Question. Why was Subbu termed as ‘many sided genius’?
(a) for his flattery
(b) for his gossiping
(c) for his interaction with others
(d) for his ability to create and manage things
Answer: d

Question. What has Asokamitran brought up through this write up?
(a) Topics of film industry
(b) Topics of make-up industry
(c) Topics of gossip
(d) Topics of heroines
Answer: a

Question. Who was the Englishman?
(a) Salman Rushdie
(b) D.H Lawrence
(c) George Orwell
(d) Stephen Spender- Editor of a British Periodical—The Encounter
Answer: d

Question. Why was the author praying for crowd shooting at all times?
(a) To attract the crowd
(b) To avoid people
(c) To avoid Epical narrations
(d) None
Answer: a

Question. ‘An extremely talented actress, who was also extremely temperamental, once blew over on the sets’.
Pick the idiom that matches best with ‘blew over’
(a) At one’s wits end
(b) Get bent out of shape
(c) Lave the blues
(d) Experience pins and needles
Answer: b

Question. ‘Often he loo ked alone and helpless-a man of cold logic in a crowd of dreamers....’ it can be inferred that the man
(a) rationalised every thought before it was spoken.
(b) failed to consider human emotions and social dynamics.
(c) was critical of what others did around him.
(d) egoistic and always thought other lacked reason.
Answer: b

Question. Why was Subbu a trouble shooter?
(a) Because of his gossip style
(b) Because of his flattery
(c) Ability to mix up with everyone
(d) Because of his problem resolving quality
Answer: d

Question. The boy in the make up room was jealous of whom?
(a) Actors
(b) Author
(c) The visitor
(d) Subbu’s success and his closeness to the boss
Answer: d

Question. What was MRA?
(a) British Army
(b) The Moral Rearmament Army- a counter movement to International Communism
(c) A wing of Indian Army
(d) A drama company
Answer: b

Question. Why was MRA invited to Gemini studio?
(a) To show their play
(b) Because of political affiliations
(c) Because of political influence
(d) None
Answer: b

Question. Pick the quote which best describes Subbu’s role in Gemini Studios based on the story.
1. Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
2. The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.
3. Success is not about your resources. It’s about how resourceful you are with what you have.
4. Resourcefulness: Seeing where you want to go and taking the first step.
(a) Option 1
(b) Option 2
(c) Option 3
(d) Option 4
Answer: c