CBSE Class 12 English The Interview Worksheet Set D

               Very Short Answer

Q.1)        What did the publisher think of ‘The Name of the Rose’?

Q.2)        How did Lewis Carroll react to the interviews?

Q.3)        Why do most celebrity writers hate to be interviewed?

Q.4)        What drawbacks of interviews have been pointed out by Lewis Carroll?

Q.5)        What do you learn about Umberto Eco’s distinctive style in his doctoral dissertation?

               Short Answer

Q.6)        Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?

Q.7)        “The Name of the Rose” deals with medieval history. Was it responsible for the novel’s success?

Q.8)        How does Eco find the time to write so much?

Q.9)        Why did Umberto Eco prefer himself to be called an academician than a novelist?

Q.10)      “I am convinced that I am always doing the same thing,’ says Eco. How does he explain it?

               Long Answer

Q.11)      What was distinctive about Eco’s academic writing style?

Q.12)      What idea about Umberto Eco’s personality do you form from the interview he gave to Mukund Padmanabhan?

Q.13)      If the Interviewer Mukund Padmanabhan had not got the space in the newspaper to reproduce the interview verbatim, he may have been asked to produce a short report of the interview with the salient points. Write this report for him.

Q.14)       Answer the following questions:-

(1)          How did Eco find time for writing so many books and articles?

(2)           What was Eco’s secret?

(3)          Why were the journalist and sometimes the publishers puzzled at the huge success of the novel?

Q.15)      The medium you like best for an interview, print, radio or television.

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