12th Class Test -25M The Interview, strictly NCERT CBSE BASED Course

Class 12.                 Sub- English.          Ch-7 THE INTERVIEW by Christopher Silvester       MM-25.  Time - Zero Period     Q1.Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:         

A. 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 Carroll, the creator of Alice in Wonderland, was said to have had 'a just horror of the interviewer' and he never consented to be interviewed.1x6=6

(a) 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 unwarranted intrusion into their lives.

(b) Complete the analogy with a word from the extract:

light: darkness ::............: refused

(c) In primitive cultures being photographed implied:

(i) announcing victory.

(ii) soul has been stolen.

(iii) saving a memory for posterity.

(iv) becoming popular.

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

(i) Lewis Carroll (ii) V.S. Naipaul

(iii) T.S. Eliot (iv) Charlie Sheen

(e) In the given extract, the word 'diminish' most nearly means:

(i) deepens (ii) disappoints

(iii) lessens (iv) languishes

(f) In the given extract, the writer indicates that most people……. interviews.

(i) celebrated (ii) read

(iii) gave (iv) despised

B.Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

So it is hardly surprising that opinions of the interview-of its functions, methods and merits vary considerably. Some might make quite extravagant claims for it as being, in its highest form a source of truth, and in its practice, an art.1x6=6

(a) What is hardly surprising?

(b) What does 'its' in the first sentence stand for?

(i) Interview's (ii) Journalism's

(iii) A literate person's

(iv) None of the above

(c) What is the extravagant claim that some might make?

(i) Interview is a common place of journalism

(ii) Interview in its highest form-a source of truth

(iii) Several thousand celebrities have been interviewed

(iv) Everybody who is literate will have read an interview

(d) A word similar in meaning to extravagant' is……..

(e) Who is the author?

(f) Give an antonym of 'vary'.

Q2.Answer any five questions given below 2x5=10

A. What are some of the positive views on interviews?

B. Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?

C. What is the belief in some primitive cultures about being photographed?

D.What do you understand by the expression "thumbprints on his windpipe"?

E.Do you think Umberto Eco likes being interviewed? Give reasons for your opinion.

F.How did Rudyard Kipling look at interviews?

G.Why did Lewis Carroll have a horror of the interviewer?

Q3. Answer any One Of the following questions 1x5=5

A.How does Eco find the time to write so much? Did Umberto Eco consider himself a novelist first or an academic scholar?

B.What does Umberto Eco mean by the concept of Interstices in our lives?

Q4 .Answer any One Of the following questions 1x5=5

.A.Your school is organising a five‐day acting workshop to train a group of selected students from the school. Write an invitation in about 50 words inviting the famous film director Saira Sen as the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony of the workshop. You are Vineeth/Vineetha, the secretary of the Arts Club of your school.

Or

B.Your city, Calcutta is all set for the winter. The streets are decorated for New Year celebrations. Fairs are being organised and the circus is coming to town. This is also the time for delightful seasonal treats, including delicious sweets. Write an invitation, in about 50 words, inviting your pen pal who is visiting from Japan to come and join the merriment with you and your family. You are Shivam/Shivani.

Q5.A.Answer any One Of the following questions 1x5=5

You are Saurabh Srivastava, a resident of Defense Colony Bagdogra, Siliguri. Your colony is facing the severe problem of inadequate and contaminated water supply. You decide to express your views and make the authorities aware of the situation by writing a letter to the Editor of The Siliguri Times, Siliguri. Writeyour letter in about 100-120 words. (KVS)

B.Bal Vidya Public School, Bhilai, urgently requires a post-graduate teacher to teach political science for which they have placed an advertisement in The Bhilai Express. You are Sanjay/Sanjana Sharma from 21, Vasant Marg, Bhilai. Draft a letter including a CV, applying for the advertised post.(120 – 150 words)