OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS
1. Who wrote the article, “What is wrong with Indian Films” ?
(a) Satyajit Ray
(b) Joan Lexau
(c) Humayun Kabir
(d) Vishnujit Ray
2. Satyajit Ray was born on
(a) April 1, 1989
(b) Oct 27, 1899
(c) May 2, 1921
(d) June 5, 1941
3. Satyajit ray was a well known ______ .
(a) Film director
(b) singer
(c) poet
(d) Chess player
4. Satyajit Ray was ______ film director.
(a) Nepali
(b) Indian
(c) Chinese
(d) Tamil The essay
5. “What is wrong with Indian Films” has been taken from the book ______ .
(a) American movies
(b) paheli
(c) Director’s cut
(d) Our Films, Their Films
6. Which is the most potent and versatile art form ?
(a) painting
(b) music
(c) cinema
(d) anthropology
7. When was the first short film produced in India ?
(a) 1914
(b) 1907
(C) 1975
(d) 1950
8. When was the first feature film produced in India ?
(a) 1917
(b) 1907
(c) 1975
(d) 1913
9. The film production in India is guantitatively second only to _________
(a) Bollywood
(b) Hollywood
(c) Tollywood
(d) architecture
10. In the Indian movies, the technicians will blame the _______
(a) tools
(b) mass
(c) director
(d) story-writer
11. In our movies, the director says that he couldn’t achieve the wonderful ideas because of _______
(a) tools
(b) actors
(c) conditions
(d) audience
12. The stories in Indian movies have been written based on _______ success.
(a) Bhojpuri
(b) South Indian
(c) Chinese movies
(d) Hollywood
13. The ______ of our films replete visual dissonances
(a) minority
(b) total
(c) majority
(d) none of these
14. The Indian music is largely ______
(a) improvisational
(b) supervisional
(c) original
(d) rectilinear
15. According to Satyajit Ray, average American film is a ______ model.
(a) good
(b) excellent
(c) bad
(d) satisfactory
16. As per Satyajit Ray high technical polish is a hallmark of which of the following ?
(a) Hollywood product
(b) Chinese Movies
(c) Korean movies
(d) Bengali movies
17. According to Satyajit Ray, which of the following is an example of strong simple theme put over in a style ?
(a) Swades
(b) Dharti ke Lal
(c) Mother India
(d) Three idiots
18. According to Satyajit Ray, which of the following is an inimitable and highly individual experiment shows grasp of film movement and a respect for tradition ?
(a) Dharti ke Lal
(b) Kalpana
(c) Swades
(d) Munnabhai MBBS
19. As per Satyajit Ray, do Indian film-makers possess the primary tools of film-making ?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) sometimes
(d) data insufficient
20. In the Indian movies, music is sandwiched in the most ______ situation which is not good.
(a) unlyrical
(b) romantic
(c) lyrical
(d) action-scenes
21. Which of the following is useful, but not indispensable ?
(a) songs
(b) shooting indoors
(c) crane shot
(d) colourful background
22. The habit of shooting indoors is not good because India is full of ______
(a) comedians
(b) good studios
(c) pollution
(d) landscapes
23. All the other countries are turning to _____ for inspiration.
(a) internet
(b) feature film
(c) documentaries
(d) musical albums
24. Whose movie is “Kalpana” ?
(a) Shankar’s
(b) Chetan’s
(c) Satyajit’s
(d) All of the above
25. Whose movie is “Dharti ke Lal”?
(a) Shankar’s
(b) IPTA’s
(c) Bhansali’s
(d) NCERT’s
26. The movies also combine the cold logic of ______ .
(a) civics
(b) geography
(c) literature
(d) science
27. Which of the following word means,” command over many qualities” ?
(a) versatile
(b) cliches
(c) potent
(d) maturity
28. Which of the following is the full form of IPTA ?
(a) Indian Public’s Train Association
(b) Indian People’s Theatre Association
(c) Indian People’s Talent Association
(d) Iraq Petroleum Theatre Association
29. Which of the following words mean “the process of developing” ?
(a) convolution
(b) versatile
(c) evolution
(d) revolution
30. Which aspect of the American films do our movies imitate ?
(a) Music
(b) Story
(c) Dialogues
(d) All of the above
31. The author points out the defects of Indian.
(a) people
(b) thinkers
(c) village
(d) films
32. After all we do posses the primary tools of ……….
(a) writing
(b) dancing
(c) film making
(d) acting
33. Which of the following film was produced by Satyajit Ray ?
(a) Satranj Ke Khiladi
(b) Pather Panchali
(c) Charulata
(d) All of these
34. What does the word ‘mysterious’ means ?
(a) Hidden facts
(b) Secret
(c) Impossible to Understand
(d) Open facts
35. The raw material of cinema is …………. itself.
(a) studio
(b) life
(c) hall
(d) camera
36. In which of the following international film festival Satyajit Ray received award ?
(a) Cannes
(b) Berlin
(c) Venice
(d) All of these
37. _____ university conferred on Satyajit Ray an honorary doctorate degree, an honour which very few people have received.
(a) Cambridge
(b) Oxford
(c) Delhi
(d) Perish
38. According to author, why are India films not shown abroad ?
(a) India offers potential market for her own products
(b) Due to language problem
(c) Because Indian films are low in quality
(d) both (a) and (c)
39. India offers a potential market for her own …….
(a) products
(b) music
(c) film
(d) cinema
40. Ray used to compose ……………. for his own films.
(a) script
(b) cusic
(c) story
(d) none of these
41. In this lesson, the author compares Indian films with ………. films.
(a) Tollywood
(b) Japanese
(c) Western
(d) Pakistani
42. 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
