12th Eng Ch-7 THE INTERVIEW EXTRACT SOLVED STRICTLY BASED ON CBSE PATTERN
CH-7 THE INTERVIEW by Christopher Silvester Extract -1 And then I have a secret. Did you know what will happen if you eliminate the empty spaces from the Universe, eliminate the empty spaces in all the atoms? The Universe will become as big as my fist. Similarly, we have a lot of empty spaces in our lives. I call them interstices (a) Who has a secret? (i) The writer himself (ii) Mukund Padmanabhan (iii) Caroline (iv) Umberto Eco (b) Whom is the speaker speaking to? (c) What secret does the speaker share with the interviewer? (i) Secret of his successful life (ii) Secret of the popularity of his novel (iii) Secret of utilising empty spaces (iv) None of the above (d) Find a word from the extract which means 'remove'. (e) 'As big as my fist'-the figure of speech is………. (f) What are interstices? Extract -2 Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow: Others, usually celebrities who see themselves as its victims, might despise the interv...