CBSE Class 12 English Lost Spring MCQs Set C

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 freedom
b) lost ownership
c) lost joy
d) all these
Answer: d

Question: Who was Saheb?
a) a shopkeeper
b) a servant
c) a ragpicker
d) all
Answer: c

Question: 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
Answer: d

Question: Why did Saheb like rag-picking?
a) He was lazy
b) he liked to be with his friends
c) he was good at it
d) it had a sense of freedom and endless possibility for him
Answer: d

Question: 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
Answer: a

Question: What was Saheb looking for?
a) eggs
b) gold
c) coins
d) toys
Answer: b

Question: 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
Answer: a

Question: What is Mukesh’s dream?
a) to be a motor mechanic
b) to be a merchant
c) to be a rogue
d) to be a doctor
Answer: a

Question: What do the boys appear like to the author in the story?
a) Morning crows
b) Evening crows
c) Morning birds
d) Evening Birds
Answer: c

Question: Is Saheb happy working at the tea stall?
a) yes
b) yes, he earns money
c) no earning
d) no, earning but no freedom
Answer: d

Question: 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
Answer: d

Question: What forced Saheb to be a ragpicker?
a) hard work
b) Destiny
c) Acute poverty
d) People around him
Answer: c

Question: Which of the following characteristics does Saheb’s question “Is your school ready” show?
a) love
b) memory
c) anxiety
d) hope
Answer: d

Question: 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
Answer: d

Question: What does the author analyze in the story?
a) Rich people
b) garbage
c) Poor children and their exploitation
d) her works
Answer: c

Question: What is the meaning of Saheb E Alam?
a) Owner
b) Rich man
c) Poor man
d) Lord of the Universe
Answer: d

Question: “Why do you do this?” — who said this to whom?
a) Saheb-e-Alam to the narrator
b) the narrator to Saheb-e-Alam
c) Mukesh to the narrator
d) Mukesh’s grandmother to Mukesh
Answer: b

Question: When the narrator asked, “Why aren’t you wearing chappals?” What was the Answer: of that boy?
a) His mother did not bring them down.
b) He did not like those chappals, which he had.
c) He did not have chappals.
d) None of the above.
Answer: a

Question: What forces the children to live a life of exploitation?
a) greed
b) Extreme Poverty
c) peers
d) parents
Answer: b

Question: Name the birth place of the author.
a) U.S.A
b) Callifornia
c) Kochi
d) Rourkela
Answer: d

Question: 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
Answer: b

Question: What does the title ‘Lost Spring’ symbolise?
a) lost blooming childhood
b) autumn season
c) lost money
d) lost age
Answer: a

Question: 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
Answer: b

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 these
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 these
Answer: d

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

Question: Where had Saheb’s family migrated from?
a) Seemapuri
b) Dhaka
c) Delhi
d) New Delhi
Answer: b

Question: 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
Answer: d

Question: What is the metaphorical symbol of Seemapuri in the lesson?
a) poverty
b) exploitation
c) enjoyment
d) a little hell
Answer: d

Question: Saheb’s full name, Saheb-e-Alam, means ‘lord of the universe’ is just opposite to his situation in life. Which literary device can be found here?
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Irony
d) Imagery
Answer: c

Question: 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 temperature
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: Who was cooking the evening meal in Mukesh’s shack?
a) Mukesh’s mother
b) Mukesh’s grandmother
c) Mukesh’s wife
d) Mukesh’s sister-in-law
Answer: d

Question: What is the means of survival in Seemapuri?
a) work
b) merchandising
c) ragpicking
d) education
Answer: c

Question: Saheb’s parents left Bangladesh and migrated to India because ____
a) They wanted to settle in India
b) They had lost everything in the flood
c) They were tortured in their home country
d) They did not like the climate of their country
Answer: b

Question: 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
Answer: a

Question: Choose the correct statement to analyse the mental condition of the rag pickers.
a) They seem to be dignified in their work as they are getting gold and silver.
b) They seem to be praying to God to oust them from this hellish life.
c) They seem to be cursing as they are doing a menial job.
d) They seem to be enjoying their freewill in their work.
Answer: b

Question: 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
Answer: a

True/False Questions:

Question: Children in Seemapuri are partners of their parents in survival.
Answer: True

Question: Saheb’s family was originally from Dhaka.
Answer: True

Question: Saheb follows the writer’s advice to go to school.
Answer:False

Question: Saheb’s name is an irony.
Answer: True

Question: Mukesh was a determined little boy who had a lot of optimism
Answer: True

Question: The simile that is used in the phrase,‘dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets’ indicates that the dream was illusory and indistinct.
Answer: True

Question: One explanation which the author gets about children choosing to remain barefoot is that they have no money.80. Seemapuri slums have proper sewage, drainage and water supply facilities.
Answer: False

Question: System is responsible to keep the people of Firozabad in poverty.
Answer: True

Question: Saheb loved watching Tennis because he wanted to become rich.
Answer: False

Source-Based Questions

‘The cry of not having money to do anything except carry on the business of making bangles, not even enough to eat, rings in every home. The young men echo the lament of their elders. Little has moved with time, it seems, in Firozabad. Years of mind-numbing toil have killed all initiative and the ability to dream. “Why not organise yourselves into a cooperative?” I ask a group of young men who have fallen into the vicious circle of middlemen who trapped their fathers and forefathers. “Even if we get organised, we are the ones who will be hauled up by the police, beaten and dragged to jail for doing something illegal,” they say. There is no leader among them, no one who could help them see things differently. Their fathers are as tired as they are. They talk endlessly in a spiral that moves from poverty to apathy to greed and to injustice.’

Question: Choose the term which best matches the statement, ‘The young men echo the lament of their elders’.
a) acceptance
b) reflection
c) reiteration
d) doubtfulness
Answer: c

Question: ‘Years of mind-numbing toil have killed all initiative and the ability to dream.’ This shows that
a) the bangle makers are exhausted yet they are enterprising and have dreams
b) the drudgery of work has destroyed their willingness to improve their lot
c) the daily grind has stolen the dream of the bangle makers and made them dull
d) the bangle makers have been working so hard that there’s no time to dream.
Answer: b

‘She still has bangles on her wrist, but no light in her eyes. “Ek waqt ser bhar khana bhi nahin khaya.” she says, in a voice drained of joy. She has not enjoyed even one full meal in her entire lifetime-that’s what she has reaped! Her husband, an old man with a flowing beard, says, “I know nothing except bangles. All I have done is make a house for the family to live in.” Hearing him one wonders if he has achieved what many have failed in their lifetime. He has a roof over his head!’

Question: She still has bangles on her wrist, but no light in her eyes.’ This implies that
a) She is married but has lost the charm in her eyes.
b) She is a married woman who has lost her grace and beauty.
c) Though she is married, her eyes are devoid of happiness.
d) She is a married woman who has lost her eyesight.
Answer: c

Question: What is the tone of the author in this passage?
a) Pessimistic.
b) Empathetic.
c) Sympathetic.
d) Optimistic.
Answer: c