Writing Effective Interview Questions Answers

Read the following passage.Yesterday my friend Ana and I went downtown to go shopping. The streets were filled with people, and traffic was at a standstill. There were reporters and police officers everywhere I looked. Suddenly, Ana grabbed my hand and pointed down the block. "Look at that!” she exclaimed. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing—a giant elephant was walking down Broadway! Just then my phone rang. "Jana!” my mom yelled through the phone. "Be careful, there’s an elephant on the loose!” "Don’t worry, Mom,” I said, "it’s headed the other way.” Later, we learned that the elephant had been returned safely to the circus in time for Saturday’s performance.Who would be the best primary source to interview about this event?

What is one advantage of using a primary source for research?

Read this excerpt from "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling.Darzee was a feather-brained little fellow who could never hold more than one idea at a time in his head; and just because he knew that Nagaina's children were born in eggs like his own, he didn't think at first that it was fair to kill them. But his wife was a sensible bird, and she knew that cobra's eggs meant young cobras later on; so she flew off from the nest, and left Darzee to keep the babies warm, and continue his song about the death of Nag. Darzee was very like a man in some ways.She fluttered in front of Nagaina by the rubbish heap, and cried out, "Oh, my wing is broken! The boy in the house threw a stone at me and broke it.” Then she fluttered more desperately than ever.Nagaina lifted up her head and hissed, "You warned Rikki-tikki when I would have killed him. Indeed and truly, you've chosen a bad place to be lame in.” And she moved toward Darzee's wife, slipping along over the dust.Based on the excerpt, which question would be the best interview question to ask Darzee’s wife?

Read this excerpt from “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling.Rikki-tikki's eyes grew red again, and he danced up to Karait with the peculiar rocking, swaying motion that he had inherited from his family. It looks very funny, but it is so perfectly balanced a gait that you can fly off from it at any angle you please; and in dealing with snakes this is an advantage. If Rikki-tikki had only known, he was doing a much more dangerous thing than fighting Nag, for Karait is so small, and can turn so quickly, that unless Rikki bit him close to the back of the head, he would get the return-stroke in his eye or lip. But Rikki did not know: his eyes were all red, and he rocked back and forth, looking for a good place to hold. Karait struck out. Rikki jumped sideways and tried to run in, but the wicked little dusty gray head lashed within a fraction of his shoulder, and he had to jump over the body, and the head followed his heels close.Choose the best question to ask Rikki-tikki about his fight with Karait, as described in the passage.