English CBSE Class 12 NCERT Flamingo Chapter 6 Poets and Pancakes Free Solution of Extra Questions and Answers – Extract Based Questions Short Answer Questions Long Answer Questions and Value Based Questions
POETS AND PANCKAES
(Extra Questions)
Extract Based Questions
EB 1. The make-up department of the Gemini Studios was in the upstairs of a building that was believed to have been Robert Clive’s stables. A dozen other buildings in the city are said to have been his residence.
1. Write name of the city being referred to in above extract?
2. For what purpose the building of Gemini Studio earlier used?
3. Which word in the extract is antonym of ‘downstairs’?
4. How many other buildings Robert Clive had used in the city?
EB 2. All this shows that there was a great deal of national integration long before A.I.R. and Doordarshan began broadcasting programmes on national integration.
1. Please write full form of A.I.R.
2. Which department is being referred to in above extract’?
3. Which word in the extract mean ‘started’?
4. Why does author say that there was national integration in the department?
EB 3. On the days when there was a crowd shooting, you could see him mixing his paint in a giant vessel and slapping it on the crowd players. The idea was to close every pore on the surface of the face in the process of applying make-up.
1. Who is referred to as ‘him’ in above extract?
2. Whom did ‘him’ consider his enemy?
3. How was make-up applied on crowd people?
4. Which word in the extract is antonym of ‘tiny’?
EB 4. On the contrary he must have had to face more uncertain and difficult times, for when he began his career, there were no firmly established film producing companies or studios.
1. Who is referred as ‘he’ in above extract?
2. Which word in the extract is synonym of ‘organisations.?
3. In which department ‘he’ was enrolled?
4. What position ‘he’ commanded at the work place?
EB 5. “The rat fights the tigress underwater and kills her but takes pity on the cubs and tends them lovingly — I don’t know how to do the scene,”
1. Who used to ask this question?
2. To whom would the question be asked?
3. How many ways used to be suggested for the shooting of this scene initially?
4. What does the word ‘cubs’ means?
EB 6. A girl from the countryside, she hadn’t gone through all the stages of worldly experience that generally precede a position of importance and sophistication that she had found herself catapulted into.
1. What was the profession of ‘girl’?
2. Who recorded her voice when she got angry?
3. Which word in the extract is synonym of ‘rural area’?
4. Did the ‘girl’ continue to work afterwards?
EB 7. Like so many of those who were close to The Boss, he was allowed to produce a film and though a lot of raw stock and pancake were used on it, not much came of the film.
1. Who is referred as ‘he’ in above extract?
2. Write name of ‘The Boss.
3. Was the film successful?
4. Which word in the extract is synonym of ‘make’?
EB 8. A few months later, the telephone lines of the big bosses of Madras buzzed and once again we at Gemini Studios cleared a whole shooting stage to welcome another visitor. All they said was that he was a poet from England.
1. Write name of the ‘visitor’.
2. The visitor was editor of which journal?
3. Was the visitor a poet indeed?
4. Which word in the extract is synonym of ‘rang’?
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