Poets and Pancakes Class 12 MCQ Quiz – Test Your Knowledge!

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Are you ready to test your understanding of "Poets and Pancakes" from the Class 12 English Flamingo textbook? This MCQ quiz will help you revise important themes, including the satire on the film industry, studio politics, and the realities of the Gemini Studios.

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  • Story Name: Poets and Pancakes
  • Author: Asokamitran
  • Subject: English (Flamingo)
  • Book: NCERT Class 12 English
  • Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
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Poets and Pancakes

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What does the author mean by "the fiery misery" of those subjected to make-up?

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‘Often he looked alone and helpless- a man of cold logic in a crowd of dreamers…’. It can be inferred that the man

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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. She never quite recovered from the terror she felt that day. That was the end of a brief and brilliant acting career — the legal adviser, who was also a member of the Story Department, had unwittingly brought about that sad end. While every other member of the Department wore a kind of uniform — khadi dhoti with a slightly oversized and clumsily tailored white khadi shirt — the legal adviser wore pants and a tie and sometimes a coat that looked like a coat of mail. Often, he looked alone and helpless …

Based on the above extract, choose the statement that is TRUE for the legal adviser.

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Asokamitran says that leisure is a prerequisite for poetry. He says this because poets

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His success in films overshadowed and dwarfed his literary achievements - or so his critics felt. He composed several truly original ‘story poems’ in folk refrain and diction and also wrote a sprawling novel Thillana Mohanambal with dozens of very deftly etched characters. He quite successfully recreated the mood and manner of the Devadasis of the early 20th century. He was an amazing actor-he never aspired to the lead roles-but whatever subsidiary role he played in any of the films, he performed better than the supposed main players. He had a genuine love for anyone he came across and his house was a permanent residence for dozens of near and far relations and acquaintances.

The phrase ‘deftly etched’ shows that Subbu

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Barring the office boys and a couple of clerks, everybody else at the Studios radiated leisure, a pre-requisite for poetry. Most of them wore khadi and worshipped Gandhiji but beyond that, they had not the faintest appreciation for political thought of any kind. Naturally, they were all averse to the term ‘Communism’. A communist was a godless man-he had no filial or conjugal love; he had no compunction about killing his own parents or his children; he was always out to cause and spread unrest and violence among innocent and ignorant people. Such notions, which prevailed everywhere else in South India at that time also, naturally, floated about vaguely among the khadi-clad poets of Gemini Studios. Evidence of it was soon forthcoming.

Why do you think leisure is a prerequisite for poetry?

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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. She never quite recovered from the terror she felt that day. That was the end of a brief and brilliant acting career — the legal adviser, who was also a member of the Story Department, had unwittingly brought about that sad end. While every other member of the Department wore a kind of uniform — khadi dhoti with a slightly oversized and clumsily tailored white khadi shirt — the legal adviser wore pants and a tie and sometimes a coat that looked like a coat of mail. Often, he looked alone and helpless …

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Select the option that completes the given sentence appropriately.

‘Stages of worldly experience’ in the given context would refer to _____.

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Pick the quote that best describes Subbu’s role in Gemini Studios based on the story.

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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. She never quite recovered from the terror she felt that day. That was the end of a brief and brilliant acting career — the legal adviser, who was also a member of the Story Department, had unwittingly brought about that sad end. While every other member of the Department wore a kind of uniform — khadi dhoti with a slightly oversized and clumsily tailored white khadi shirt — the legal adviser wore pants and a tie and sometimes a coat that looked like a coat of mail. Often, he looked alone and helpless …

Select the correct option to fill in the blank.

The harm done to the actress was a/an _____.

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What does "The God That Failed" refer to?

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Barring the office boys and a couple of clerks, everybody else at the Studios radiated leisure, a pre-requisite for poetry. Most of them wore khadi and worshipped Gandhiji but beyond that, they had not the faintest appreciation for political thought of any kind. Naturally, they were all averse to the term ‘Communism’. A communist was a godless man-he had no filial or conjugal love; he had no compunction about killing his own parents or his children; he was always out to cause and spread unrest and violence among innocent and ignorant people. Such notions, which prevailed everywhere else in South India at that time also, naturally, floated about vaguely among the khadi-clad poets of Gemini Studios. Evidence of it was soon forthcoming.

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Pick the option that uses the same figure of speech as ‘A communist is a godless man.’

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Why did the office boy join Gemini Studios?

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‘In any case, there was this man in the make-up department who would wish the direst things for Subbu’. Here ‘direst things’ refers to something that is

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Why was the legal adviser referred to as "the opposite"?

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What does Asokamitran's narrative in Poets and Pancakes demonstrate about Subbu?

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Key Topics Covered in the Quiz

The Gemini Studios and its functioning
Use of satire and humor in the chapter
Important characters like Subbu, the narrator, and the boss
The irony of ‘pancakes’ in the chapter

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