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WorksheetsPoets and Pancakes Part 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who is the author of Poets and Pancakes?
a)
Asokamitran 1931), a Tamil writer
b)
Charu Nivedita
c)
Jayakanthan
d)
Balakumaran
2.
What does his book “My Years with Boss” talk of ?
a)
his job
b)
explain the nature of his boss
c)
explains his environment
d)
impact of movies on every aspect of life in India.
3.
When was Gemini studio set up?
a)
1920
b)
1930
c)
1910
d)
1940
4.
What was the brand name of the make up material that Gemini studio bought?
a)
Pancake
b)
Mancake
c)
Fancake
d)
latin cake
5.
Who was Greta Garbo?
a)
A Swedish actress- an Oscar winner
b)
a german actress
c)
a French actress
d)
a bengali actress
6.
What was Asokamitran's job in the studio?
a)
to arrange pancakes
b)
to arrange make up kits
c)
to serve water
d)
cut out newspaper clippings on a wide variety of subjects and store them in files.
7.
What has Asokamitran brought up through this write up?
a)
topics of film industry
b)
topics of make up industry
c)
topics of gossip
d)
topics of heroines
8.
What does he bring to the notice of readers through this write up?
a)
movies and different roles
b)
heroines and their tantrums
c)
heroines and make up
d)
Independent India and its infancy
9.
Who was the founder of Gemini studio?
a)
Mr. S.S Vasan
b)
English man
c)
a Tamil boy
d)
a director
10.
What has been the make up room compared to?
a)
make up company
b)
a Parlour
c)
a jewellery shop
d)
hair-cutting salon
11.
For whom was Gemini studio making films?
a)
for English people
b)
for illiterate
c)
for elderly peole
d)
for simple Tamilians who have no interest in English poetry
12.
Why is the Englishman's visit referred as unexplained mystery?
a)
because of his appearance
b)
because of his dress
c)
because of his hairstyle
d)
because of his unfamiliarity and baffled looks
13.
Who was the Englishman?
a)
Salman Rushdie
b)
D.H Lawrence
c)
George Orwell
d)
Stephen Spender- Editor of a British Periodical The Encounter
14.
Why did he visit the studio?
a)
to deliver a speech
b)
to gossip with the workers
c)
to check the workers
d)
to know the film making
15.
What was MRA?
a)
British Army
b)
The Moral Rearmament Army- a counter movement to International Communism
c)
a wing of Indian Army
d)
A drama company
16.
Why was MRA invited to Gemini studio?
a)
To show their play
b)
Because of political affiliations
c)
because of political infuence
d)
none
17.
Why did everybody in the studio think of giving some work to the author?
a)
because of the idle appearance of his work
b)
because he was an office boy
c)
because he was a helper
d)
none
18.
Why did the office boy in the make up room come to the author?
a)
because he was unemployed
b)
because of his interest in literary arts and film making
c)
to earn money
d)
to do make up
19.
Why was the author praying for crowd shooting at all times?
a)
to attract the crowd
b)
to avoid people
c)
to avoid epical narrations
d)
none
20.
Who was Subbu's enemy?
a)
no one
b)
the author
c)
actors
d)
The boy in the makeup room
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