Question

Why did the make-up room have a look of a hair-cutting salon ?

• A. emotional stress faced by the actors.
• B. physical discomfort due to heat and lighting.
• C. anger of the make-up artists due to irritation.
• D. the discomfort caused by the cramped room.
• A. minimised the cost of set design and costumes.
• B. was a mandated practice by the studio’s creative heads and lead actors.
• C. aligned with the theatrical traditions the studio admired.
• D. compensated for the lack of advanced lighting and camera technology.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: Find the comparison in the extract:
The extract begins by saying that the make-up room looked like a hair-cutting salon. The very next words explain the reason.

Step 2: Pick out the details:
The room had lights fixed at all angles. It also had about half a dozen large mirrors around those lights. These two features are what one sees in a salon.

Final Answer:
The make-up room looked like a hair-cutting salon because it had lights at all angles and half a dozen large mirrors.

Answer 2

Step 1: Read the phrase in context:
The author says all the lights were incandescent, so one can imagine the fiery misery of those subjected to make-up. The word 'fiery' is linked to the hot lights.

Step 2: Test each option:
Option (B) is right because the heat of the lights made the actors physically uncomfortable. Option (A) is wrong as the passage speaks of heat, not feelings. Option (C) is wrong as the artists' anger is never mentioned. Option (D) is wrong as nothing says the room was cramped.

Final Answer:
(B) physical discomfort due to heat and lighting.

Answer 3

Step 1: Look at the words used:
The author says the make-up men could turn a decent-looking person into a 'hideous crimson hued monster'. The words are very strong and clearly overdone.

Step 2: Decide the tone:
A writer who exaggerates in this way is not being serious or angry. He is making fun of the heavy make-up of those days in a light-hearted way.

Final Answer:
The tone of the author is humorous (sarcastic / exaggerating).

Answer 4

Step 1: Find the reason in the extract:
The author says that most shooting was done indoors, and that the sets and studio lights needed the actors to be made to look ugly in order to look presentable on the screen. This points to a technical limitation.

Step 2: Test each option:
Option (D) is right because heavy make-up made up for weak lights and cameras. Option (A) is wrong as cost is never discussed. Option (B) is wrong as no order from the studio heads or actors is mentioned. Option (C) is wrong as theatre traditions are not referred to.

Final Answer:
(D) compensated for the lack of advanced lighting and camera technology.

Answer 5

Step 1: Understand the expression:
'Too big for the studio' is a figure of speech. It does not mean he was large in size. It means the studio could no longer hold his importance or ambition.

Step 2: Draw the inference:
He had risen in his career beyond the level of the studio, and he may also have become proud. So he left to move on.

Final Answer:
It implies that the Bengali make-up artist had advanced beyond the studio in his career and had become arrogant and over-ambitious.

Answer 6

Step 1: Note who worked in the department:
The author lists a Bengali, a Maharashtrian, a Dharwar Kannadiga, an Andhra, a Madras Indian Christian, an Anglo-Burmese and local Tamils, all in one department.

Step 2: Find the purpose of the list:
He then says this shows a great deal of National Integration long before A.I.R. and Doordarshan began programmes on it. So the list proves a point.

Final Answer:
... show that cultural and national integration already existed at Gemini Studios, much before the media began to publicise it.