CBSE Class 12 English Poets and Pancakes Worksheet Set D

               Very Short Questions

Q.1)        What was pancake?

Q.2)        Why did everybody in the studio think of giving the author some work to do?

Q.3)        What was the name of Subbu’s novel? What was it about?

Q.4)        Why did the boy in the make-up department come to the author? Why was the author praying for crowd shooting all the time?

Q.5)        What does the author think about Subbu as an actor?

               Short Questions

Q.6)        What do you understand about the author’s literary inclinations from the account?

Q.7)        Subbu was ‘tailor-made for films’. How did he use his genius in various activities in the Gemini Studios?

Q.8)        Read the text again and mark the transition from one, idea to another. The first one is indicated below.

             Make-up department office boy Subbu

Q.9)       Answer the following questions:-

(1)           How did the legal adviser ruin the career of a brilliant actress?

(2)           How did the legal adviser lose his job? What was strange about it?

Q.10)      What was ‘The God That Failed’ about? What significance did it assume for the writer?

               Long Questions

Q.11)      Give a pen-portrait of the ‘office-boy’ highlighting his aspirations, odd jobs and disillusionment.

Q.12)      Why and how was the Moral Re-Armament Army welcomed at the Gemini Studios?

Q.13)      How would you describe Subbu a trouble shooter or a sycophant.

Q.14)      The author has used gentle humour to point out human foibles. Pick out instances of this to show how this serves to make the piece interesting.

Q.15)      Narrate the incident in which the legal adviser was instrumental in causing the end of a brief and brilliant acting career.

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