Answer the following questions in about 40 words each :
a) What did Robert Clive do during his brief stay at Madras ?
OR
What were the states of affairs in France during the period, as described in 'The Last Lesson'?
b) From where did the peddler get the idea of world being a rattrap ?
OR
Name the studio described in 'Poets and Pancakes' and a famous star who used its make-up room.