INDIAN SCHOOL SOHAR

ENGLISH MCQS
CHAPTER-LOST SPRING(Roll no. 1-28)
Class: XII C

1.Where is Saheb’s hometown?

A) Dhaka, Bangladesh
B) Delhi, India
C) Doha, Qatar
D) Dushanbe, Tajikistan
2.Approximately how many rag pickers live in Seemapuri?
A) One thousand
B) Ten thousand
C) One lakh
D) Ten lakh
3.For how many years had these rag pickers lived in Seemapuri?
A) Thirteen
B) Thirty
C) Forty
D) Twenty
4.How must have Saheb got his tennis shoes?
A) His parents gifted them on his birthday.
B) The author gave it to him.
C) They were discarded shoes of some boy who did not want them as they
were worn out.
D) He stole them.
5.What does Saheb get in return for working in the tea stall?
A) Rs. 800
B) All meals
C) Gold coins
D) Both A and B
6. What does Mukesh want to become in the future?
A) A tennis player
B) A motor mechanic
C) A pilot
D) A bangle maker
7. What harm to the health does working in dark hutments of Firozabad cause?
A) Loss of eyesight
B) Diabetes
C) Injury to hands
D) None of the above
8.Who is Saheb?
A) a shopkeeper
B) a servant
C) a ragpicker
D) all of the above
9.What is Saheb searching for in the garage?
A) Gold
B) Clothes
C) Toys
D) Food
10. How much salary did Saheb get in the tea stall?
A) Rs 400
B) Rs 200
C) Rs 100
D) Rs 800
11.What game do the author and Saheb go to see?
A) Tennis
B) Cricket
C) Badminton
D) Football
12.What does his name 'Saheb-e-Alam' means?
A) Lord of the world
B) King of the universe
C) Lord of divotion
D) Lord of the universe

13.Whose father was a priest

A) A man from Udipi
B) Saheb
C) Saheb's friend
D) Saheb's cousin brother

14.What symbolizes Indian women's suhaag?

A) Earrings
B) Bracelet
C) Necklace
D) Bangles

15.Why did Saheb and his family come to india ?

A) Because they liked India
B) Because they of communal violence
C) Because storm destroyed there field and houses
D) All of the above

16.Saheb’s name means “Lord of the universe" but he leads a life of

____________.
A) Wealth and power
B) Prosperity
C) Poverty
D) None of the above
17.For people living in Seemapuri what is more important than an identity ?
A) Garbage
B) Gold
C) Food
D) Cloths

18.What does a heap of garbage stand for the children’s parents?

A) Wonder
B) Means of survival
C) Both a and b
D) Gold

19. Who are responsible for the poor condition of bangle makers in Firozabad?
A) Parents
B) Society
C) Bureaucrats
D) All of these

20."Why do you do this?" who is you in the sentence?

A) Anees
B) Saheb
C) Mukesh
D) Savita

21. What did the young boys reply when asked, "why aren't you wearing
chappals?".
A) Its a tradition
B) His mother did not bring them down the shelf
C) They were poor
D) Both A and B

22.What would the priest's son pray for?

A) New books
B) New toys
C) Pair of shoes
D) New clothes
23. Why did Saheb preferred rag picking over his job at the tea shop?
A) rag picking was more enjoyable
B) he missed the company of his friends 
C) he had autonomy while rag picking 
D) the steel canister was too heavy for him

24. Why did the author say that Seemapuri is far away from Delhi?
A) Seemapuri is in Bangladesh
B) Seemapuri is 500 km away from Delhi
C) it was a metaphor about the contrasting living conditions of the 2 places
D) it was a metaphor about the status of the inhabitants

25. Why did the author ask Mukesh if he wants to fly in a plane?
A) she wanted to test his knowledge about air crafts
B) she wanted to know if he had ever seen an airplane
C) she wanted to know if there were any limits to his ambition
D) she wanted to understand his imagination

26. What is Firozabad famous for?

A) being an immigrant settlement 
B) being a backward area
C) being the centre of India's banglemaking industry
D) being a centre for ragpickers 

27. Why did Saheb's family immigrate from Bangladesh?

A) Delhi seemed more happening and exciting
B) their fields were destroyed by a flood 
C) they wanted to meet their cousins 
D) they wanted to become ragpickers 

28. “ I sometimes find a rupee , even a ten-rupee note “.Who says this?
A) Mukesh
B) Saheb
C) Author
D) none of these
29. Where did the storms hit and sweep fields and homes ?
A) Seemapuri
B) Firozabad
C) Dhaka
D) Lahore

30. When will Savita realize the piety of wearing bangles ?

A) At the time of graduation
B) At the time of Mukesh’s marriage
C) At the time of her marriage
D) At the time of purchasing bangles

31. What happens when these young men dare to do anything else ?
A) Challenged upon
B) Haunted
C) Beaten up
D) Stalked

32.What does the author analyze in the story?

A) garbage
B) rich people
C) his work
D) poor children and their exploitation

33.According to the author what was garbage for the parents?

A) Means of entertainment
B) Means of joy
C) Means of survival
D) Means of sorrow

34.Where was Saheb employed?

A) At sweet shop
B) Tea stall in seemapuri
C) In jewellery shop
D) At saree shop
35.Name the author’s birthplace?
A) Uk
B) Rourkela
C) Cochin
D) Australia

36. Where is seemapuri?

A) Noida
B) South delhi
C) North delhi
D) East delhi

37.What forced saheb to be a rag picker?

A) Destiny
B) Hard work
C) Dream
D) Poverty

38.What do the boys appear like to the author in the story?

A) morning crows
B) evening crows
C) morning birds
D) evening birds

39.The frail woman in mukeshs house is his______

A) mother
B) wife
C) elder brothers wife
D) niece

40.What bothers the author most about the bangle makers?

A) of poverty and caste
B) affluence of landlords
C) behaviour of factory owners
D) labour laws
41.' she has not enjoyed a full meal in her entire lifetime.', Whom does she refer
to?
A) the elderly woman sitting near savita
B) mukesh’s sister in law
C) mukesh’s grandmother
D) mukesh’s mother

42. What is the reason for children remaining barefoot?

A) Lack of money
B) Perpetual state of poverty
C) Physical illness
D) A tradition to remain barefoot

43. Who employs the local families of Firozabad?

A) Bureaucrats
B) Merchants
C) Politicians
D) The glass blowing industry

44. What does the title “Lost Spring” symbolize?

A) Lost blooming childhood
B) Autumn season
C) Lost money
D) Lost age

45.“Lost Spring” is extract from which book of Anees Jung?

A) When a place becomes a person
B) Stories of stolen childhood
C) Unveiling India
D) The song of India

46. What does the word ‘canister’ symbolize?

A) child labour
B) Hunger
C) rag picker
D) None of the above
47. What does Saheb want to become when he grew up?
 A) Tennis player
B) Hotel owner
C) Rickshaw puller
D) rag picker

48.who said “It is his Karam, his destiny,”

A) Mukesh
B) Saheb’s grandmother
C) Mukesh grandmother
D) Narrator

49. How old was Shaheb?

A) 13 years
B) 12 years
C) 11 years
D) 10 years

50. Which literary device is used in the sentence “Army of barefoot boys”?
A) simile
B) hyperbole
C) metaphor
D) enjambment

51.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

52.“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
53.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

54.What was the profession of Mukesh’s father before

he became a bangle-maker?
A) tailor
B) carpenter
C) plumber
D) Mason

55. 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 of these

56. 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

57.Why was Saheb not happy at the tea stall?

A) lost the carefree look.
B) no longer his own master.
C) both (a) and (b)
D) None of these.

58.Anees Jung was born in ………………..?

 A) 1955
B) 1933
C) 1964
D) 1900
59. “But promises like mine abound in every corner of his bleak world.”,What
does the ‘bleak’ mean here?
A) Breathing quickly
B) Discouraging situation
C) Lasting for ever
D) Symbolically

60.According to the author, rag picking has become, over the years, a________
A) profession
B) fine art
C) tradition
D) culture