CBSE Class 12 English Lost Spring MCQs Set 06

Question. The man from Udipi was the son of a
(a) doctor
(b) teacher
(c) priest
(d) engineer
Answer: c

Question. What did the man from Udipi pray for, when he was young?
(a) a pair of trousers
(b) a pair of shoes
(c) a few friends
(d) an opportunity to study in a school
Answer: b

Question. Saheb’s home, before Delhi, was in
(a) Bengal
(b) Orissa
(c) Dhaka
(d) Bihar
Answer: c

Question. Why did Saheb and his family move to Delhi?
(a) because storms had swept away their fields and homes
(b) their village was flooded
(c) there were landslides
(d) there was a deadly epidemic in the village
Answer: a

Question. Saheb did not like to work in the tea-stall because
(a) he was getting only ` 800.
(b) he hated the steel canister.
(c) he was no longer his own master.
(d) he had to carry heavy bags now.
Answer: c

Question. Mukesh belonged to a family of
(a) farmers
(b) rag-pickers
(c) bangle makers
(d) motor mechanics
Answer: c

Question. What were Saheb and his family looking for in Delhi?
(a) dollars
(b) rupees
(c) pounds
(d) gold
Answer: d

Question. The author advised Saheb to go to
(a) school
(b) college
(c) club
(d) playground
Answer: a

Question. ‘Is your school ready?’ Who asked this question?
(a) Saheb’s mother
(b) Saheb’s friends
(c) The author
(d) Saheb
Answer: d

Question. ‘But promises like mine abound in every corner of his bleak world’. This suggests that
(a) there is no dearth of promise which remain unfulfilled.
(b) there is scarcity of people promising things for betterment.
(c) people make a lot of promise which are often fulfilled.
(d) promises made, live up to the expectations of people
Answer: a

Question. From this chapter, it is evident that the author has an attitude of
(a) sympathy.
(b) apathy.
(c) empathy
(d) bewilderment
Answer: a

Question. Saheb’s full name was
(a) Mughal-e-azam
(b) Saheb-e-Alam
(c) Shahenshah-e-Alam
(d) Shah Jahan
Answer: b

Question. One explanation w hich the author gets about children choosing to remain barefoot is
(a) they have no money
(b) tradition
(c) no matching pairs
(d) like to wear only chappals
Answer: b

Question. The author visited the town and temple of Udipi after
(a) ten years
(b) five years
(c) thirty years
(d) fifteen years
Answer: c

Question. The colony of ragpickers is situated in
(a) the south of Delhi
(b) Mongolpuri
(c) Jehangirpuri
(d) Seemapuri
Answer: d

Question. The squatters in Seemapuri arrived as refugees from Bangladesh in
(a) 1965
(b) 1971
(c) 1982
(d) 1986
Answer: b

Question. The ragpickers have no identity, but they have
(a) permits
(b) passports
(c) ration cards
(d) licenses
Answer: c

Question. For the ragpickers, food is more important than
(a) clothes
(b) shoes
(c) identity
(d) shelter
Answer: c

Question. According to the author, ragpicking has become, over the years, a
(a) profession
(b) fine art
(c) tradition
(d) culture
Answer: b

Question. Garbage to the ragpickers is
(a) money
(b) daily bread, a roof over their heads
(c) gold
(d) silver
Answer: b

Question. One day, Saheb was seen by the author, watching some young men playing
(a) cricket
(b) tennis
(c) hockey
(d) soccer
Answer: b

Question. What did Mukesh want to become, on growing up?
(a) a motor mechanic
(b) a shop keeper
(c) a bangle maker
(d) a carpenter
Answer: a

Question. What was the profession of Mukesh’s father before he became a bangle-maker?
(a) tailor
(b) carpenter
(c) plumber
(d) mason
Answer: a

Question. Sunny-gold, paddy green, royal blue, pink,purple, every colour born out of the seven colours of the rainbow. What is this a reference to?
(a) clothes
(b) birds
(c) bangles
(d) bindis
Answer: c

Question. Choose the statement that is NOT TRUE about ragpickers in Seemapuri.
(a) Children are equally involved in rag picking as their parents.
(b) The ragpickers settle down in a place permanently.
(c) Ragpicking has accomplished itself as a skill and a form of art.
(d) Ragpickers live in unsteady shanties on the outskirts of Delhi.
Answer: c

Question. ‘Why do you do this?’ This question was asked by the author to
(a) the bangle sellers
(b) Mahesh
(c) Saheb
(d) Saheb’s mother
Answer: c

Question. Saheb’s profession was that of a
(a) cook
(b) rag-picker
(c) bangle seller
(d) driver
Answer: b

Question. The families of the bangle-makers live in
(a) comfortable environment
(b) big houses
(c) very small houses
(d) factories
Answer: c

Question. He is content to dream of cars. Who is ‘he’ being talked about?
(a) Mukesh
(b) Saheb
(c) Sahukar
(d) Politician
Answer: a

Question. If laws were to be enforced, it would bring about change and relief in the lives of about
(a) ten thousand children
(b) twenty thousand children
(c) hundred children
(d) a thousand children
Answer: b

Question. Mukesh’s house is covered with
(a) stones
(b) bricks
(c) tiles
(d) thatch
Answer: d

Question. Savita, a young girl is seen by the author,
(a) stitching clothes
(b) washing clothes
(c) soldering pieces of glass
(d) embroidering a sheet
Answer: c

Question. Which of the objects below best serves as a symbol of an Indian woman’s ‘suhag’?
(a) bindi
(b) sindoor
(c) bangles
(d) henna dyed hands
Answer: c

Question. ‘She has not enjoyed a full meal in her entire lifetime’. Who is ‘she’ in the given sentence?
(a) the elderly woman sitting close to Savita
(b) Mukesh’s sister-in-law
(c) Mukesh’s mother
(d) Mukesh’s grandmother
Answer: a

Question. ‘‘One wonders if he has achieved what many have failed to achieve in their lifetime. He has a roof over his head’’; these lines were said in reference to the condition of
(a) the elderly woman’s old husband
(b) Mukesh’s father
(c) the bangle factory owner
(d) Mukesh’s elder brother
Answer: a

Question. Who will be hauled up by the police if they try to get organized?
(a) the old citizens
(b) the owners of the factories
(c) the group of young men
(d) Mukesh’s family
Answer: c

Question. What bothers the author most about the bangle makers?
(a) the stigma of poverty and caste
(b) the affluence of the landlords
(c) the behaviour of the factory owners
(d) the labour laws
Answer: a

Question. The frail woman in Mukesh’s house is his
(a) mother
(b) elder brother’s wife
(c) wife
(d) niece
Answer: b

Question. Mukesh’s father is a
(a) car-driver
(b) bangle-maker
(c) cracker-maker
(d) mechanic
Answer: b

Question. The sahukars, the middlemen, the policemen, the keepers of law, the bureaucrats and the politicians. Together these people
(a) worked for the benefit of bangle makers
(b) imposed the baggage on the child that he cannot put down
(c) worked for the upliftment of women
(d) abolished child labour
Answer: b

Question. Bangle industry flourishes in the town of
(a) Ferozepur
(b) Firozabad
(c) Ferozgarh
(d) Farukhabad
Answer: b

Question. ‘That’s why they left, looking for gold in the big city.’ Here ‘gold’ indicates
(a) misfortune of circumstances.
(b) ample wealth
(c) means of survival
(d) a sign of luxury
Answer: c

Question. Mukesh wants to learn to become a motor mechanic by
(a) finding a tutor
(b) going to a garage to learn
(c) by reading books
(d) by joining a school
Answer: b

Question. ‘Can a god-given lineage ever be broken?’
These words were spoken by
(a) Mukesh
(b) Mukesh’s grandfather
(c) Mukesh’s grandmother
(d) the author
Answer: c