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Assignment-The Interview (Class XII)

The document outlines assignments for Class XII English, focusing on Chapter 7: The Interview from the Flamingo textbook. It includes short and long answer questions related to interviews, Umberto Eco, and the impact of interviews on communication. Additionally, it features home assignments and extra questions for self-practice to enhance understanding of the chapter's themes.

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Assignment-The Interview (Class XII)

The document outlines assignments for Class XII English, focusing on Chapter 7: The Interview from the Flamingo textbook. It includes short and long answer questions related to interviews, Umberto Eco, and the impact of interviews on communication. Additionally, it features home assignments and extra questions for self-practice to enhance understanding of the chapter's themes.

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Class: XII Subject: English

Chapter 7: The Interview (Flamingo)

I Class Assignment:

 Short Answer Type Questions: Answer the following in 30-40 words each.

(2 marks each)

1. Why has the interview become a widely known term today?

2. Why do some celebrities despise being interviewed?

3. What is the belief in some primitive cultures regarding people being photographed?

4. Why did Lewis Carroll never agree to be interviewed?

5. How did Rudyard Kipling contradict his own views on interviewing?

6. Why does Saul Bellow refer to interviewing as thumbprints on his windpipe?

7. What secret does Eco reveal about his time management?

8. Why according to Eco did the ‘Name of the Rose’ become such a huge success?

9. What did the publisher think of ‘The Name of the Rose’?

10. What did Eco’s professor have to say about his doctoral dissertation?

11. How did Eco respond to David Lodge’s remark in the interview of Mukund?

12. Despite the drawbacks of the interview, why is it a supremely serviceable medium of
communication?

 Long Answer Type Questions: Answer in about 125-150 words each. (6 marks
each)

1. I can’t understand how a man can do all the things he does.. Discuss this statement with
reference to Umberto Eco.

2. What is Umberto Eco’s book .The Name of the Rose. about? Why did it become an
unprecedented success?

3. ‘The interview is both a much maligned and a supremely serviceable medium of


communication.’ Discuss with reference to the lesson ‘The Interview’.

4. ‘The interviewer holds a position of unprecedented power and influence.’ What arguments
does Christopher Sylvester give in support of this statement?

II Home assignment:
1. Despite the drawbacks of the interview, why is it a supremely serviceable medium of
communication? (2)

2. What secret does Eco reveal about his time management? (2)

3. ‘Interviews are here to stay, in spite of people having varied opinions about them.’
Comment with reference to the excerpt. (2)

4.Umberto Eco liked being interviewed. Justify the statement with reference to the excerpt. (6)

III. Extra Questions for self-practice:

1. Mention two extravagant claims made in support of the interview.

2. What is the reason for the huge success of the novel, The Name of the Rose?

3. Mukund Padmanabhan has done his home work on Umberto Eco and knows what he is
talking. However, he links with Eco spontaneously and this makes for a very smooth reading.
Do you agree? Why?

4. Every famous person has a right to his or her privacy. Interviewers sometimes embarrass
celebrities with very personal questions

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