The Interview
Ans:
An interview is a professional communication between two or sometimes
more participants to convey the information. In this process, the interviewer
asks various questions to the interviewee interviewees and gets answers for
public.
Q.2. Who will hear read an interview at some points in their lives?
Almost
everybody who is literate reads an interview once in their life as there are
lots of sources are available to common mass to read or watch interviews. It is
a source of truth. In practice, it is an art and varies in its function,
methods and merits.
Q.3. What claim might have been made by some people regarding an
interview?
Ans:
Some people might have made quite extravagant claims for interview as
being, in its highest form, a source of truth, and in its practice, an art.
Q.4. What is the belief in the primitive culture as per the text?
Ans:
In the primitive cultures, it is believed that if one takes a
photographic portrait of somebody then one is stealing that person's soul.
Q.5. how do celebrities take an interview?
some celebrities take interviews and honestly but most of the celebrities take interview in different negative ways giving an interview is losing a part of themselves as a horror
Q.6. How did Lewis Carroll separate him from the public and why?
Ans:
Lewis Carroll separated himself from the public by never consenting for
an interview. He never met with his fans and followers. He did so because he
had a horror of the interviewer always in his heart. Thus he remained far from
the interviews.
Q.7. Who was Caroline? What did she write in her diary?
Ans:
Caroline was the wife of Rudyard Kipling, aprofilic writer. In her
diary, Caroline wrote on 14 October, 1892, that their day was wrecked by two
reporters from Boston. She considered interview as a crime, cowardly and vile.
8. What was the irony in Saul Bellow's opinion about an interview?
Ans. There was the irony in Saul Bellow's opinion about an interview. Saul Bellow, playwright and a novelist, who has consented to ented to be interviewed on several occasions
Q.9. What is the position of an interviewer?
Ans:
The position of an interviewer seems to be in midstream. But today,
despite the drawbacks of the interview, it is a supremely serviceable medium of
communication. These days more than at any other time, our most of vivid
impressions of our contemporaries are through interviews. Thus, the position of
an interviewer has recovered and improved today.
Q.10. Who was Umberto Eco?
Ans:
Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist. He was famed as a philosopher,
medievalist and semiotician also. He was born on 5 January 1932 and died on 19
February 2016. He used to write literary fiction, academic texts, essays,
children's books and newspapers article also.
Q11. .Which were the fields of works of Umberto Eco?
Ans.
Umberto Eco's fields of works were very wide. He was a writer and a famous novelist. He was a professor at the University of Bologna in Italy. Before writing fiction, he had been famous as a scholar for his ideas on semiotics, literary interpretation and medieval aesthetics. Afterwards, he used to write literary fiction, academic texts, essays, children's books, newspapers
Q.12. What was the secret told by Umberto Eco?
Ans. At the interview, Umberto Eco told a secret to the interviewer Mukund Padmanabhan He te the empty spaces in empty spaces from the universe, eliminate the told that if we eliminate the empty I the atoms, the universe universe will will become b big all t as his fist. Similarly, we've a lot of empty spaces in our lives. According to Eco, it (that empty space) was called interstice
Q.13. Who was MukundPadmanabhan? What did he ask Umberto about his
departure from a regular academic style?
Ans:
MukundPadmanabhan was an editor from 'The Hindu' and the interviewer of
Umberto Eco. Mukund asked Umberto Eco about his departure from a regular
academic style if he had consciously adopted an informal approach or if it was
something that just had come naturally to him.
Q.14. Who was Roland Barthes? Why was he frustrated?
Ans:
Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher,
critic and semiotician. He was born on 12 November 1915 and died on 26 March,
1980. He was frustrated because he was an essayist and not a novelist. He
(Roland) wanted to do creative writing one day but he died before he could do
so.
Q.15. How did Umberto Eco identify himself and why?
Ans: Umberto Eco considered himself an academic scholar first and a novelist later. He said he considers himself a university professor who writes novels on Sundays. On weekdays he attends academic conferences and does not meet writers or Pen club.
Q.16. What was 'The Name of the Rose'?
Ans:
'The Name of the Rose' was a novel written by 'Umberto Eco'. It was a
serious novel. It was a detective yarn at one level but also delved into
metophysics, theology and medieval history. 'The Name of the Ro Rose' sold
between 10 and 15 million copies.
Q.17. how could the success of the name of the rose counted?
ANS.
The novel ‘Name of the Rose’ sold 10 and 15 millions copies and the whole earth population was 6 billion so this was huge success of the novel.
Q.18. What is the reason for the huge success of the novel, "The Name of the Rose"?
According to Umberto Eco, the reason for the huge success of the novel is a mystery to him as well. He says that being set in the medieval history period is one of the possible reasons for its success.
Q.19. What does V.S. Naipaul feel about interviews?
Ans:
V.S. Naipaul feels that some people are wounded by interviews and lose
a part of themselves.
Q.20. Why did Rudyard Kipling refuse to be interviewed?
Ans:
Rudyard Kipling refused to be interviewed because he said that it was
immoral, it was a crime, it was an offence of assault on his person. It was
cowardly and vile. No respectable man would ask it.
Q.21. What works had already acquired a formidable reputation for
Umberto Eco as a scholar before he began to write fiction?
Ans:
His ideas on semiotics (the study of signs), literary interpretation,
and medieval aesthetics had already acquired a formidable reputation for
Umberto Eco as a scholar before he began to write fiction.
Q.22. What genres are represented in the novel 'The Name of the Rose?
Ans:
The novel 'The Name of the Rose' represents a detective plot at one
level, and metaphysics, theology and medieval history on the another level.
Long Answers.
1. What is an interview? How is it considered by the interviewer and the interviewee? In the context of the text, describe celebrities' consideration about the interviews.
Ans.
An interview is a professional communication between two or, sometimes more than two participants to convey the information. In this process, the interviewer asks various questions to the interviewee/interviewees and gets answers for public. In the context of and as per the usual consideration, an interview has different aspects and the text and understanding from the point of view of the interviewers and the interviewees. The interviewers have a very important place in the world of journalism today which provides us many valuable information, related to the celebrities. Various celebrities, consideration about the interviews is mostly negative. Celebrities see themselves as their (interviewers) victims, they take interview as an unwarranted intrusion into their lives, they feel that interviews somehow diminish them, V. S. Naipaul, feels that some people are wounded by interviews and lose a part of themselves, Lewis Carroll had a just horror of the interviewers, H. G. Wells referred to the interviewing ordeal, Saul Bellow described interviews as being like thumbprints on his windpipe. Yet despite the drawbacks of the interview, thousands of celebrities have been interviewed since its invention
2. Who was Umberto Eco ? What were his fields of writing ? How did he write the novel ' The Name of the Rose ' ? ??
ANS.
Umberto Eco was a Italian novelist . He was famed as a philosopher , medievalist and semiotician also . He was born on 5 January 1932 and died on 19 February 2016. He used to write literary fiction , academic texts , essays , children's books and newspapers articles also so these all were his fields of writing . His novel The Name of the Rose ' was written by him very casually . He used to write novels on only Sundays . He started writing novel once when he was nothing to do so his novel writing started accidently but later he admitted that writing novels probably satisfied his taste of narration and only through novels he could reach to a larger audience . Umberto wrote and focussed on " The Name of the Rose with one more reason , also that people might get bored from reading trash or regular fictions . He separated himself from the crowd thinking and did something unique . And the result was unexpected 10 to 15 million , copies were sold worldwide .
3. What is ' interstices ' ? How does Umberto Eco explain it ? ??
Ans . ' Interstices ' is a term used / given by famous novelist ' Umberto Eco . He defines interstices as empty spaces . According to Eco , we have a lot of empty spaces in our lines which he calls interstices . He gives example : suppose somebody is coming to his place , the person is in an elevator and while the person is coming up , he is waiting for him . This is an interstice , an empty space . He works in empty spaces . While waiting for his elevator to come up from the first to the third floor , he has already written an article . Thus , Umberto describes ' interstices ' . According to the Oxford Dictionary , an interstice is : ' a small break or space in something ' .
4. What type of novel ' The Name of the Rose ' ? How was it published and what was its success ?
Ans.
' The Name of the Rose ' was a novel written Umberto Eco ' . It was a serious novel . It was a detective yarn at one level but also delved into metaphysics , theology and medieval history . For the publication of his novel , when Umberto Eco approached to his American publisher , she reverted that she had loved his book but she didn't expect to sell more than 3,000 copies in a country where nobody has seen a cathedral or studied Latin . So , the author was given an advance for 3,000 copies only , but in the end it sold two or three million copies in the U.S. only . Its success can be counted by the statistics that it sold about 10 to 15 million copies of his book ' The Name of the Rose ' worldwide .
MCQs
1.
It is believed
that if one takes a photographic portrait of somebody then one is stealing that
person's_______________.
(a) character
(b) attitude
(c) soul
(d) idea
2. Caroline wrote in her diary
on _________________ that their day was 'wrecked by two reporters from Boston'.
(a) 24 October, 1982
(b) 14 October, 1892
(c) 4 October, 1982
(d) 14 September, 1982
3. Kipling had himself
perpetrated such an _____________ on Mark Twain only a few years before.
(a) assault
(b) attack
(c) offer
(d) order
4. Saul Bellow once
described interviews as being like thumbprints on his_______________.
(a) neck
(b) throat
(c) nerves
(d) windpipe
5. Interview is a
_____________ serviceable medium of communication.
(a) extremely
(b) supremely
(c) perfectly
(d) exactly
6. The interviewer holds a
position of unprecedented _____________ and influence.
(a) balance
(b) power
(c) strength
(d) value
7. The interviewer was
MukundPadmanabhan from ______________.
(a) The Hindustan Times
(b) The Times of India
(c) Amar Ujala
(d) The Hindu
8. 'The Name of the Rose'
sold more than 10 _________ copies.
(a) thousand
(b) lac
(c) million
(d) billion
9. According to Umberto
Eco, "The universe will become as big as my___________”.
(a) palm
(b) finger
(c) fist
(d) hand
10. Umberto Eco presented
his first Doctoral dissertation in ___________.
(a) England
(b) Italy
(c) Bologna
(d) Boston
11. At the age of
_________, Umberto understood scholarly books should be written the way he had
done.
(a) 22
(b) 32
(c) 42
(d) 52
12. Umberto Eco considered
himself a_______________.
(a) teacher
(b) writer
(c) professor
(d) novelist
13. 'The Name of the Rose'
is a very _________ novel.
(a) comic
(b) serious
(c) sad
(d) perfect
14. American publisher
didn't expect to sell more than _______copies.
(a) 40,000
(b) 30,000
(c) 2,000
(d) 3,000
15. According to Umberto
Eco, the success of the book was a__________.
(a) mystery
(b) secret
(c) luck
(d) chance
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