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               SHORT QUESTIONS
                   1.  List some of the positive views on interviews.

                   2.  Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?
                   3.  What is the belief in some of the primitive culture about being Photographed?
                   4.  What drawbacks of interviews have been pointed out by Lewis Carrol?
                   5.  How does Rudyard Kipling condemn an Interview?
                   6.  What do you understand by the expression’ thumbprints on his windpipe’?
                   7.  What was distinctive about Eco ‘s academic writing style ?
                   8.  . Did Umberto Eco consider himself as a novelist first or an academic scholar?
                   9.  What do you think were the distinguishing features of his novel ‘The Name of the

                       Rose’?

               LONG QUESTIONS

                   1.  The Interview as a communication genre is here to stay. Discuss with reference to
                       the interview with Umberto Eco.
                   2.  How does Mukund Padmanabhan comment on Eco’s academic writing style? What
                       does Eco say about it?
                   3.  What are the opinions of some of the celebrities on interviews?
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