1. In this lesson, the author compares Indian films with films.

(a) Korean
(b) Japanese
(c) Western
(d) Pakistani

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Answer ⇒ C


2. The cinema ……… in various measures the function of poetry, music, painting, drama; architecture and a host of other arts, major and minor.

(a) combines
(b) destroys
(c) deletes
(d) rescues

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Answer ⇒ A


3. Often by a queer process of reasoning ……… was equated with action and action with melodrama.

(a) movement
(b) producing
(c) acting
(d) direction

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Answer ⇒ A


4. What our cinema need above everything else is a style, an idiom, a sort of ……… of cinema which would be uniquely and recognisably Indian.

(a) finance
(b) studio
(c) committee
(d) iconography

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Answer ⇒D 


5. The raw material of cinema is……… itself.

(a) studio
(b) camera
(c) hall
(d) life

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Answer ⇒ D


6. Who is the author of “What is wrong with Indian Films’?

(a) Satyajit Ray
(b) Mahadevi Verma
(c) Vidyapati
(d) Puran Singh

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Answer ⇒A 


7. In which of the following international film festival Satyajit Ray received award ?

(a) Venice
(b) Cannes
(c) Berlin
(d) All of these

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Answer ⇒ D


8. Ray used to compose ….. for his own films.

(a) Script
(b) Music
(c) Songs
(d) None of these

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Answer ⇒ B


9. Which of the following film was produced by Satyajit Ray ?

(a) Pather Panchali
(b) Satranj Ke Khiladi
(c) Charulata
(d) All of these

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Answer ⇒ D


10. Which of following university conferred on Satyajit Ray an honorary doctorate degree, an honour which very few people have received ?

(a) Cambridge
(b) California
(c) Oxford
(d) Peris

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Answer ⇒ C


11. According to the author, which of the following commands the respect accorded to any other form of creative expression ?

(a) Music
(b) Literature
(c) Cinema
(d) Sports

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Answer ⇒ C


12. In which year the first short film was produced in India ?

(a) 1907 A.D.
(b) 1919 A.D.
(c) 1925 A.D.
(d) 1947 A.D.

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Answer ⇒ A


13. In Which year the first feature film of India was performed ?

(a) 1913 A.D.
(b) 1925 A.D.
(c) 1935 A.D.
(d) 1947 A.D.

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Answer ⇒ A


14. According to the author, why are Indian films not shown abroad?

(a) India offers potential market for her own products
(b) Because Indian films are weak in quality
(c) Due to language problem
(d) None of these

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Answer ⇒ A


15. What does the word ‘mysterious’ mean?

(a) Secret
(b) Impossible to Understand
(c) Hidden facts
(d) None of these

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Answer ⇒ B