CBSE Class 12 Lost Spring MCQs Set A

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. The sahukars, the middlemen, the policemen, the keepers of the law, the bureaucrats and the politicians. Together these people
(a) worked for the benefit or 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. 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. 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. Mukesh’s house is covered with
(a) stones
(b) bricks
(c) tiles
(d) thatch

Answer : D

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

Answer : C

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

Answer : A

Question. Saheb did not like to work in the tea-stall because
(a) he was getting only Z 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. 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

Answer : D

Question. What are the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry?
(a) Poor health
(b) Impaired vision
(c) Miserable life
(d) All of the options

Answer : D

Question. Who are responsible for the poor condition of bangle makers in Firozabad?
(a) Parents
(b) Society
(c) Bureaucrats
(d) All of the options

Answer : D

Question. Where is Seemapuri?
(a) In Noida
(b) South Delhi
(c) North Delhi
(d) East Delhi

Answer : D

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

Answer : B

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

Answer : B

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

Answer : C

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

Answer : B

Question. What is the metaphorical symbol of Seemapuri in the lesson?
(a) Poverty
(b) Exploitation
(c) Enjoyment
(d) A little hell

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : A

Question. The city of Firozabad is famous for what?
(a) For casteism
(b) For ragpickers
(c) For poverty
(d) For bangles

Answer : D

Question. 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) No money
(c) Education and unemployment
(d) Safety

Answer : A

Question. Why did bangle makers lack initiative and ability to dream?
(a) They had no leader.
(b) They were not a part of any cooperative
(c) Their mind-numbing toil left them with no energy
(d) Daring was not part of their growing up

Answer : C

Question. What resonated with survival in Seemapuri?
(a) Food
(b) Identity
(c) Rag picking
(d) Garbage

Answer : C

Question. How was Mukesh different from his family members?
(a) He had connections with influtential people
(b) He was daring
(c) He was willing to work hard to achieve his dream
(d) He wanted to be a motor mechanic

Answer : C

Question. 'And survival in Seemapuri means rag picking through the years it has acquired the proportions of a fine art.' Name the device.
(a) Paradox
(b) Metaphor
(c) Contrast
(d) Hyperbole

Answer : D

Question. What change did Anees Jung see in Saheb when she saw him standing by the gate of the neighbourhood club?
(a) As if lost his freedom
(b) Lost ownership
(c) Lost joy
(d) All of the options

Answer : D

Question. What excuse do the rag pickers give for not wearing chappals?
(a) Mothers don’t give
(b) No interest
(c) A tradition
(d) All of the options

Answer : D

Question. Why did Saheb leave his house?
(a) Because the storm swept away his house and field
(b) To enjoy a life of leisure
(c) To find friends
(d) To go to college

Answer : A

Question. Saheb hailed from which place?
(a) Delhi
(b) Seemapuri
(c) Greenfields of Dhaka
(d) None

Answer : C

True False Questions

Question. The residents of Seemapuri live in primeval state without any facility.
Answer : True

Question. Mukesh wanted to become a car mechanic because he lacked the skills required for bangle making.
Answer : False

Question. Not wearing Footwear explains their perpetual poverty.
Answer : True

Question. Mukesh is also aiming to fly a plane.
Answer : False

Question. The people of Firozabad involve their children in the bangle- making industry without knowing that it is illegal.
Answer : True

Extract Based Questions

A. Read the extract given below and choose the correct option.
'Go to school', I say glibly, realising immediately how hollow the advice must sound.
'There is no school in my neighbourhood. When they build one, I will go.'
'If I start a school, will you come?' I ask, half-joking. 'Yes,' he says, smiling broadly.
A few days later I see him running up to me. 'Is your school ready?'
'It takes longer to build a school,' I say, embarrassed at having made a promise that was not meant. But promises like mine abound in every corner of his bleak world.
After months of knowing him, I ask him his name, 'Saheb-e-Alam', he announces. He does not know what it means. If he knew its meaning-lord of the universe-he would have a hard time believing it.

Question. How does Saheb respond to the narrator’s advice?
(a) That he enjoys doing his work
(b) That his parents won’t allow
(c) That he would go when one is there
(d) That they all are beyond his reach

Answer : C

Question. Why did the narrator feel embarrassed?
(a) For making a false promise
(b) For hurting the emotions of Saheb
(c) For mocking the poverty of Saheb
(d) For making Saheb run to her

Answer : A

Question. ……… in the extract means ’thrive’.
(a) Embarrassed
(b) Broadly
(c) Glibly
(d) Abound

Answer : D

Question. How is the name of the poor rag-picker, Saheb-e-Alam ironic in nature?
(a) It means the lord of cleanliness
(b) It means the lord of the universe
(c) It means rich end the prosperous
(d) It means king of the kingdom

Answer : B
 

B. Read the extract given below and choose the correct option.
In his hand is a steel canister. 'I now work in a tea stall down the road,' he says, pointing in the distance. 'I am paid 800 rupees and all my meals.' Does he like the job? I ask. His face, I see, has lost the carefree look. The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulder. The bag was his. The canister belongs to the man who owns the tea shop. Saheb is no longer his own master!

Question. What is Saheb holding while on his way?
(a) Rag picking bag
(b) A pair of different colour shoes
(c) A gold coin
(d) A steel canister

Answer : D

Question. How has the new job impacted Saheb?
(a) He earns more money and better food now
(b) He has lost his carefree look now
(c) He saves the time to go to school now
(d) He has no time to play now.

Answer : B

Question. Why does the steel canister seem heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly?
(a) The bag was his
(b) The canister belongs to the shop owner
(c) Saheb is no longer his own master
(d) All of the above

Answer : D

Question. …………..means ’canister’ used in the extract.
(a) Vessel
(b) Humdinger
(c) Implication
(d) Fuss

Answer : A