LOST SPRING
Chapter 2 Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood class 12 MCQs
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| Lost Spring class 12 CBSE MCQs term 1 exam |
Q1- Who is the author of Lost Spring?
A) James Bond
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Sudha Murthy
D) Anees Jung
Q2- This story is an excerpt from which book of the author?
A) Lost Spring - Stories of stolen childhood
B) Unveiling India
C) Breaking the Silence
D) The Song of India
Q3- What does the author analyze in the story?
A)Rich people
B) garbage
C) Poor children and their exploitation
D) her works
Q4- What is the central theme of the story Lost Spring?
A) Pitiable Poor children and their lost childhood
B) garbage
C) Saheb and Mukesh
D) Spring Season
Q5- What forces the children to live a life of exploitation?
A) greed
B) Extreme Poverty
C) peers
D) parents
Q6- According to the author what was garbage for the parents?
A) Means of entertainment
B) means of joy
C) Means of sorrow
D) Means of survival
Q7- According to the author what was garbage for the children ?
A) Means of entertainment
B) Means of timepass
C) Means of playing
D) a wonder
Q8- Who was Saheb?
A) a shopkeeper
B) a servant
C) a ragpicker
D) all
Q9- What was Saheb looking for?
A) eggs
B)gold
C)coins
D) toys
Q10- Is Saheb happy working at the tea stall?
A) yes
B) yes, he earns money
C) no earning
D) no, earning but no freedom
Q11- Why did Saheb E Alam not go to school?
A) not interested
B) no bucks to pay fees
C) wants to go for movie
D) wants to earn
Q12- What is the meaning of Saheb E Alam?
A) Owner
B) Rich man
C) Poor man
D) Lord of the Universe
Q13- Where was Saheb employed?
A) at a tea stall in Seemapuri
B) at a saree shop
C) at a jewellery shop
D) at a sweet shop
Q14- Why is author calling garbage as 'gold' in the story?
A) Because of jewels in it
B) Because of gems in it
C) because of gold in it
D) Because of its encashment
Q15- What do the boys appear like to the author in the story?
A) Morning crows
B) Evening crows
C) Morning birds
D) Evening Birds
Q16- Name the birth place of the author.
(a)U.S.A
(b)Callifornia
(c)Kochi
(d)Rourkela
Q17- What does the title 'Lost Spring' symbolise?
A) lost blooming childhood
B) autumn season
C) lost money
D) lost age
Q18- Saheb hailed from which place?
A) Delhi
B) Seemapuri
C) Greenfields of Dhaka
D) None
Q19- Why did Saheb go through garbage dumps?
A) to find silver coin
B) a rupee
C) a ten rupee note
D) all these
Q20- Why did Saheb leave his house?
A) Because storm swept away his house and field
B) to enjoy a life of leisure
C) to find friends
D) to go to college
Q21- What forced Saheb to be a ragpicker?
A) hard work
B) Destiny
C) People arpund him
D) Acute poverty
Q22- Where is Seemapuri?
A) In Noida
B) South Delhi
C) North Delhi
D) East Delhi
Q23- Why did Saheb leave Dhaka?
A) Because of lack of resources
B) Because of lack of enough food
C) Because of friends
D) Because of parents
Q24- Who are responsible for the poor condition of bangle makers in
Firozabad?
A) Parents
B) Society
C) Bureaucrats
D) All
Q25- What efforts can help Mukesh materialise his dream of
becoming a car driver?
A) Hard work
B) going to garage
C) guidance of his owner
D) all these
Q26- What are the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry?
A) Poor health
B) impaired vision
C) miserable life
D) All of these
Q27- Who employs the local families of Firozabad?
A) Bureaucrats
B) Merchants
C) Politicians
D) The glass blowing industry
Q28- What is the function of glass blowing industry?
A) to make windows
B) to make doors
C) to mould glass
D) to mould glass and make colorful bangles
Q29- What makes the working condition of the children worst in the
glass industry?
A) Dark dingy cells without light and air
B) dazzling and sparking of welding light
C) high temprature
D) All these
Q30- What excuse do the rag pickers give for not wearing chappals?
A) mothers don't give
B) no interest
C) a tradition
D) All these
31- Who is Mukesh?
A) student
B) worker
C) ragpicker
D)banglemaker
Q32- What are the reasons for the migration of people from villages
to city in the lesson?
A) Sweeping of houses and fields by storms
B) poverty
C) education and unemployment
D) safety
Q33- What compels the workers in bangle industry of Firozabad to
poverty?
A) cast and ancestral profession
B) Karam theory and society
C) Bureaucrats and politicians
D) All these
Q34- The city of Firozabad is famous for what?
A) For casteism
B) For ragpickers
C) for poverty
D) for bangles
Q35- Firozabad is the centre of which industry?
A) cotton industry
B) furniture industry
C) textile industry
D) glassblowing industry
Q36-How is Mukesh's attitude different from that of his family?
A) being daring, firm and clear
B) being a fighter
C) being a coward
D) not clear
Q37- What is the means of survival in Seemapuri?
A) work
B) merchandising
C) education
D) ragpicking
Q38- What is the metaphorical symbol of Seemapuri in the lesson?
A) poverty
B) exploitation
C) enjoyment
D) a little hell
Q39- What is Mukesh's dream?
A) to be a doctor
B) to be a merchant
C) to be a rogue
D) to be a motor- mechanic
Q40- What change did Anees Jung see in Saheb when she saw him
standing by the gate of the neighbourhood club?
A) as if lost freedom
B) lost ownership
C) lost joy
D) all these
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
(A) "It is his karam, his destiny," says Mukesh's grandmother, who has watched her own husband go blind with the
dust from polishing the glass of bangles. "Can a god-given lineage ever be broken?" she implies. Born in the caste of
bangle makers, they have seen nothing but bangles — in the house, in the yard, in every other house, every other
yard, every street in Firozabad. Spirals of bangles — sunny gold, paddy green, royal blue, pink, purple, every colour
born out of the seven colours of the rainbow — lie in mounds in unkempt yards, are piled on four-wheeled handcarts,
pushed by young men along the narrow lanes of the shanty town. And in dark hutments, next to lines of flames of
flickering oil lamps, sit boys and girls with their fathers and mothers, welding pieces of coloured glass into circles of
bangles. Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside. That is why they often end up losing their
eyesight before they become adults.
(i) Choose the option that best demonstrates the relevant traits of the people based on the extract provided.
(a) unlucky and poor
(b) poor but quite skilful
(c) poor but satisfied
(d) unlucky and unsatisfied
(ii) "Can a god-given lineage ever be broken?" This means Mukesh's grandmother wondered if
(a) ancestral occupation be ever changed.
(b) God save them from poverty.
(c) they could go to another level of society.
(d) Mukesh could live happily.
(iii) 'It is his karam' indicated the grandmother's perspective for fate. Pick the option that correctly states these
conditions.
1. excitement
2. ignorance
3. acceptance
4. interests
5. worry for the future
6. despair of the condition
(a) 1 and 4
(b) 2 and 5
(c) 4 and 5
(d) 3 and 6
(B) "I will learn to drive a car," he answers, looking straight into my eyes. His dream looms like a mirage amidst the
dust of streets that fill his town Firozabad, famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making
bangles. It is the centre of India's glass-blowing industry where families have spent generations working around
furnaces, welding glass, making bangles for all the women in the land it seems.
(i) The expression, 'His dream looms like a mirage' refer to
(a) Mukesh's impossible dream of learning to drive a car.
(b) Saheb's dream to play tennis.
(c) Savita's dream to get married.
(d) Anees Jung's dream to write a new book.
(II) The literary device used in the line, 'looms like a mirage amidst the streets that fill his town Firozabad' is
(a) pun.
(b) metaphor.
(c) simile.
(d) transferred epithet.
(iii) The people of Firozabad were engaged in the profession of
(a) writing books.
(b) collecting garbage.
(c) helping people as tourist guides.
(d) making bangles.
(iv) What does the phrase, 'spent generations' indicate about the bangle makers of Firozabad?
(a) Spent very little time
(b) Spent only a couple of years
(c) Even the ancestors of the people of Firozabad were engaged in making bangles.
(d) Hardly spent any time
(C) Mukesh's family is among them. None of them know that it is illegal for children like him to work in the glass
furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light; that the law, if enforced, could get him and all
those 20,000 children out of the hot furnaces where they slog their daylight hours, often losing the brightness of
their eyes. Mukesh's eyes beam as he volunteers to take me home, which he proudly says is being rebuilt. We walk
down stinking lanes choked with garbage, past homes that remain hovels with crumbling walls, wobbly doors, no
windows, crowded with families of humans and animals coexisting in a primeval state. He stops at the door of one
such house, bangs a wobbly iron door with his foot, and pushes it open. We enter a half-built shack. In one part of it,
thatched with dead grass, is a firewood stove over which sits a large vessel of sizzling spinach leaves. On the ground,
in large aluminium platters, are more chopped vegetables. A frail young woman is cooking the evening meal for the
whole family. Through eyes filled with smoke she smiles.
(i) The expression, 'Slog their daylight hours' philosophically means
(a) struggle continuously during the daytime.
(b) losing out the prime time of one's life.
(c) live in areas where there is no light.
(d) waste the daytime doing nothing.
(ii) Why are the girl's eyes filled with smoke?
(a) The air is foggy, and it is glazing her vision.
(b) The girl is warning herself at the fireplace.
(c) The men in the family are smoking.
(d) The girl's eyes are engulfed in the smoke from the firewood stove.
(iii) Choose the expression that best matches the statement— 'none of them know that it is illegal for children to
work'.
(a) empathy
(b) ignorance
(c) persuasion
(d) immoral
(iv) Which style, from those given below, is being used by the author, when she says, "losing the brightness of their
eyes"?
(a) cheerful
(b) humorous
(c) sarcastic
(d) disappointed
(D) Food is more important for survival than an identity. “If at the end of the day we can feed our families and go to
bed without an aching stomach, we would rather live here than in the fields that gave us no grain,” say a group of
women in tattered saris when I ask them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers. Wherever they
find food, they pitch their tents that become transit homes. Children grow up in them, becoming partners in survival.
And survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art. Garbage
to them is gold. It is their daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is a leaking roof. But for a child it is even more.
(i) The phrase ‘transit homes’ refer to the dwellings that are
(a) unhygienic.
(b) inadequate.
(c) fragile.
(d) temporary.
(ii) Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence “Garbage to them is gold”.
(a) hyperbole
(b) simile
(c) synecdoche
(d) personification
(iii) Choose the term which best matches the statement ‘Food is more important for survival than an identity.””?
(a) immorality
(b) necessity
(c) obligation
(d) ambition
(iv) What does ‘acquired the proportions of a fine art’ mean?
(a) Rag-picking has regained its lost status.
(b) A segment of ragpickers is skilled in fine arts.
(c) Rag-picking has attained the position of a skill.
(d) Only a few people are experts in rag-picking.
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