CBSE Class 12 English Lost Spring MCQs Set 04

Question: Which of the following show that the mind-set of the people of Firozabad plays a big role in their dismal poverty?
a) They did not know that the law, if enforced, could get Mukesh and others out of furnaces
b) The people dare not form cooperatives because they have lost their ability to dream
c) There is no leader among them who could guide them
d) All of the above
Answer: d

Question: Why did Saheb go through garbage dumps?
a) to find silver coin
b) a rupee
c) a ten rupee note
d) all these
Answer: d

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

Question: 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
Answer: c

Question: Who is the author of Lost Spring?
a) James Bond
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Sudha Murthy
d) Anees Jung
Answer: d

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

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

Question: Firozabad is the centre of which industry?
a) cotton industry
b) furniture industry
c) textile industry
d) glassblowing industry
Answer: d

Question: Who employs the local families of Firozabad?
a) The glass blowing industry
b) Merchants
c) Politicians
d) Bureaucrats
Answer: a

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) poverty
c) education and unemployment
d) safety
Answer: a

Question: What is the function of glass blowing industry?
a) to mould glass and make colorful bangles
b) to make doors
c) to mould glass
d) to make windows
Answer: a

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: Who is Mukesh?
a) student
b) ragpicker
c) ragpicker
d) worker
Answer: b

True/False Questions:

Question: Mukesh’s father earned enough to build a house.
Answer: True

Question: “Garbage to them is gold.’’ Because they find gold in the garbage.
Answer: False

Question: Mukesh belongs to a rich family and plans to open a car showroom.
Answer: False

Question: Mukesh’s father earned enough to build a house.
Answer: True

Question: Children are unaware that it is forbidden by law to work in the furnaces at such a tender age.
Answer: True

Question: Workers in the glass industry face many health hazards.
Answer: True

Question: Saheb came from his home in Dhaka long ago and lived in Firozabad with his parents.
Answer: False

Question: The author is cheered to see the determination of Mukesh to be a car driver.
Answer: True

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

Question: For a poor boy like Saheb, even a shoe with a hole is a dream.
Answer: True

Question: The people of Firozabad involve their children in the bangle making industry knowing that it is illegal.
Answer: False

Question: Mukesh’s attitude is different from that of his family as he is daring, firm and clear.
Answer: True

Question: The title Lost Spring symbolises lost childhood.
Answer: True

Question: ‘Garbage to them is gold.’ The literary device that is used here is hyperbole.
Answer: True

Assertion Reason Question

Question:
Assertion: The bangle makers of Firozabad are reluctant to organize themselves into a cooperative
Reason: They are trapped in the vicious cycle of debt and afraid of police.
A) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
B) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
C) Assertion is true and reason is false.
D) Assertion is false and reason is true.
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion: Seemapuri is in the periphery of Delhi, yet miles away from it metaphorically.
Reason: The main occupation of the people living there is rag picking.
(A) Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is correct explanation of assertion.
(B) Assertion and reason both are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(C) Assertion is true, reason is false.
(D) Assertion is false, reason is true.
Answer: b

Question:
Assertion: For children, garbage has a meaning different from what it means to their parents.
Reason: For the grown up it is a means of survival.
(A) Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is correct explanation of assertion.
(B) Assertion and reason both are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(C) Assertion is true, reason is false.
(D) Assertion is false, reason is true.
Answer: b

Question:
Assertion: The author is bothered about the problems of bangle makers.
Reason: The labour law is not implemented in reality.
A) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
B) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
C) Assertion is true and reason is false.
D) Assertion is false and reason is true.
Answer: b

Question:
Assertion: Anees Jung in ‘Lost Spring’ describes two stories of stolen childhood.
Reason: Millions of children in India waste their time in rag-picking or working in hazardous industries.
(A) Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is correct explanation of assertion.
(B) Assertion and reason both are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(C) Assertion is true, reason is false.
(D) Assertion is false, reason is true.
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion: Bangle makers’ families are forced to live in poverty.
Reason: Their families are caught in a web of poverty and burdened by the stigma of caste.
A. a. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
B. Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.
C. A is true but R is false
D. Both A and R are false.
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion: Travelling across the country the author has observed children walking along the road bare footed.
Reason: It is not lack of money but tradition to stay barefoot.
A. Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is correct explanation of assertion.
B. Assertion and reason both are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
C. Assertion is true, reason is false.
D. Assertion is false, reason is true.
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: Garbage is wrapped in wonder for the elders in Seemapuri.
Reason: For the elders, it is a means of survival.
A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
B. Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.
C. A is true but R is false.
D. A is false but R is true.
Answer: d

Question:
Assertion: Saheb does not go to school.
Reason: There is no school in his neighbourhood.
A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
B. Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.
C. A is true but R is false
D. Both A and R are false
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: The refugees of Bangladesh have been living in Seemapuri since 1971without permits.
Reason: Children in Seemapuri grow up becoming partners in survival since early age.
A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
B. Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.
C. A is true but R is false
D. Both A and R are false
Answer: b

Question:
Assertion: ‘Little has moved with time, it seems, in Firozabad.’
Reason: The bangle makers are living in poverty for generations and there is not any improvement in their living condition.
A. Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
B. Assertion and reason both are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
C. Assertion is true, reason is false.
D. Assertion is false, reason is true.
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion: ‘‘I like the game….I go inside when nobody is around.’’
Reason: Saheb wants to learn tennis by reading the instructions.
A. Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
B. Assertion and reason both are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
C. Assertion is true, reason is false.
D. Assertion is false, reason is true.
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: Children in Seemapuri do not wear slippers.
Reason: Their parents do not bring them down from the shelf.
A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
B. Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.
C. A is true but R is false
D. Both A and R are false
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: Young men of Firozabad have fallen into them vicious circle of middlemen who have trapped their fathers and forefathers.
Reason: Young men are law breakers.
A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
B. Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.
C. A is true but R is false
D. Both A and R are false
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: ‘Little has moved with time, it seems, in Firozabad.’
Reason: The bangle makers are living in poverty for generations and there is not any improvement in their living condition.
(A) Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(B) Assertion and reason both are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(C) Assertion is true, reason is false.
(D) Assertion is false, reason is true.
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion: Survival in Seemapuri means rag picking.
Reason: Garbage to them is gold.
A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
B. Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.
C. A is true but R is false
D. Both A and R are false
Answer: b

Question:
Assertion: ‘‘I like the game….I go inside when nobody is around.’’
Reason: Saheb wants to learn tennis by reading the instructions.
(A) Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(B) Assertion and reason both are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(C) Assertion is true, reason is false.
(D) Assertion is false, reason is true.
Answer: c

Source-Based Questions

“I sometimes find a rupee, even a ten rupee note,” Saheb says, his eyes lighting up. When you can find a silver coin in a heap of garbage you don’t stop scrounging, for there is hope of finding more. It seems that for children, garbage has a meaning different from what it means to their parents. For the children it is wrapped in wonder, for the elders it is a means of survival.”

Question: What does the phrase ‘lighting up’ imply here?
a) Bright with excitement
b) Dark with sadness
c) Glowing with pride
d) Simmering with anger
Answer: a

Question: Choose the phrase that best summarises the meaning of garbage for adults and children:
a) Rural and urban
b) Theory and experiment
c) Reality and fantasy
d) Tradition and modernity
Answer: c

Question: The mood conveyed in the above extract is ____.
a) Humorous
b) Melancholy
c) Mysterious
d) Peaceful
Answer: b

Question: Synonym of ‘survival’ is ____.
a) Extinction
b) Annihilation
c) Demise
d) Endurance
Answer: d