Poets and Pancakes Mcqs

1. Who is the author of Poets and Pancakes?
A) Asokamitran (1931), a Tamil writer

B) Charu Nivedita
C) Jayakanthan
D) Balakumaran
2. When was Gemini studio set up?
A) 1920
B) 1930
C) 1910
D) 1940
3. What was the brand name of the make-up material that Gemini studio bought?
A) Pancake
B) Mancake
C) Fancake
D) latincake
4. Who was Greta Garbo?
A) A Swedish actress- an Oscar winner
B) A German actress – Noble prize winner
C) A French actress Oscar nominee
D) A bengali actress
5. 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.
6. Who was the founder of Gemini studio?
A) Mr. S.S Vasan
B) Stephen Spender
C) a Tamil boy
D) Kothamanglam Subbu
7. What has been the make-up room compared to?
A) make up company
B) a Parlour
C) a jewellery shop
D) hair-cutting salon
8. 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
9. Who was the Englishman?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) D.H Lawrence
C) George Orwell
D) Stephen Spender
10. Why did Spender 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
11. Why was MRA invited to Gemini studio?
A) To show their play
B) Because of political affiliations
C) because of cultural exchange
D) none
12. 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
13. 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
14. Who was Subbu’s enemy?
A) no one
B) the author
C) actors
D) The boy in the makeup room
15. The boy in the make up room was jealous of whom?
A) actors
B) author
C) the visitor
D) Subbu’s success and his closeness to the boss
16. What qualities was Subbu admired for?
A) acting, writing filmmaking skills and the management skills
B) acting and writing
C) flattery
D) gossips
17. Why was Subbu considered number 2 at Gemini studio?
A) because of his flattery
B) because of his abilities
C) because of creative skills
D) none
18. Which plays were presented by MRA in Madras?
A) Macbeth
B) Othello
C) A doll’s house
D) Jetham Valley and The Forgotten Factors
19. How was the Gemini studio influenced by the plays staged by MRA?
A) They imitated their styles
B) They imitated their dialogues
C) They imitated their story
D) They imitated their sets and costumes
20. What is the example of National Integration in Poets and Pancakes?
A) Make up department of Gemini
B) rehersal room
C) office of Gemini studio
D) none
21. How does the author come to know that the English author was Stephen Spender?
A) From a painting which has his name
B) From the newspaper article
C) from a television show
D) from a book written by him which had his photograph
22. How was Kothamanglam Subbu treated in the Gemini studio?
A) with hatred
B) rudely
C) disrespectfully
D) with high respect
23. Why was Subbu termed as ‘many sided genius’?
A) because of his flattery
B) because he indulged in gossip
C) because of his ability to interact with others
D) because of his ability to create and manage several things
24. How many people were there in the MRA group?
A) 150 from 15 nationalities
B) 180 from 18 nationalities
C) 140 from 14 nationalities
D) 200 people from 20 nationalities
25. When did MRA visit Madras?
A) 1942
B) 1922
C) 1932
D) 1952
26. What things attracted the audience in the plays staged by MRA?
A) their jewellery
B) their make up
C) their dialogues
D) their sets and costumes
27. ‘An extremely talented actress, who was also extremely temperamental, once blew over
on the sets’. (CBSE QB, 2021)
Pick the idiom that matches best with ‘blew over’.
A) At one’s wits end
B) Get bent out of shape
C) Have the blues
D) Experience pins and needles
28. What does the expression ‘ fiery misery’ mean?
A) the fire that burnt near the studio
B) the bright sunlight during an outdoor shoot
C) the bright colorful dresses of heroines
D) discomfort to the actors in the makeup room
29. Who was heading the make-up department?
A) a Madrasi, later succeeded by a Gujarati
B) A tamilian, later succeeded by a Maharashtrian
C) A Bengali, later succeeded by a Punjabi
D) A Bengali, later succeeded by a Maharashtrian
30. In any case, there was this man in the make-up department who would wish the dirtiest
things for Subbu’. Here ‘direst things’ refers to something that is (CBSE QB, 2021)
A) urgent.
B) desperate.
C) disastrous.
D) dreadful

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1. Who is the author of Poets and Pancakes?

A) Asokamitran (1931), a Tamil writer

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