LOST SPRING

ASSIGNMENT
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1.’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
2. Saheb’s profession was that of a
(a) cook
(b) rag-picker
(c) bangle seller
(d) driver
3. Saheb’s home, before Delhi, was in
(a) Bengal
(b) Orissa
(c) Dhaka
(d) Bihar
4.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
5. He is content to dream of cars. Who is ‘he’ being
talked about?
(a) Mukesh
(b) Saheb
(c) Sahukar
(d) Politician
6. The author advised Saheb to go to
(a) school
(b) college
(c) club
(d) playground
7. ‘Is your school ready? Who asked this question?
(a) Saheb’s mother
(b) Saheb’s friends
(c) the author
(d) Saheb
8. Saheb’s full name was
(a) Mughal-e-Azam
(b) Saheb-e-Alam
(c) Shahenshah-e-Alam
(d) Shah Jahan
9. One explanation which the author gets about
children choosing to remain barefoot is
(a) they have no money
(b) tradition
(c) no matching pairs
(d) not allowed to wear chappals
10. The man from Udipi was the son of an
(a) doctor
(b) teacher
(c) priest
(d) engineer
11. 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
12. The author visited the town and temple of
Udipi after
(a) ten years
(b) five years
(c) thirty years
(d) fifteen years
13. The colony of ragpickers is situated in
(a) the south of Delhi
(b) Mongolpuri
(c) Jehangirpuri
(d) Seemapuri
14. The squatters in Seemapuri arrived as refugees
from Bangladesh in
(a) 1965
(b) 1971
(c) 1982
(d) 1986
15. The rag pickers have no identity, but they have
(a) permits
(b) passports
(c) ration cards
(d) licenses
16. For the rag pickers, food is more important
than
(a) clothes
(b) shoes
(c) identity
(d) shelter
17. Saheb did not like to work in the tea-stall
because
(a) he was getting only Rs 800
(b) he hated the steel canister
(c) he was no longer his own
master (d) he had to carry heavy
bags now
18. Mukesh belonged to a family of
(a) farmers
(b) rag-pickers
(c) bangle makers
(d) motor mechanics
19. What did Mukesh want to become, on growing
up?
(a) a motor mechanic
(b) a shopkeeper
(c) a bangle maker
(d) a carpenter
20. Bangle industry flourishes in the town of
(a) Ferozepur
(b) Firozabad
(c) Ferozgarh
(d) Farukhabad
21. Mukesh’s father is a
(a) car-driver
(b) bangle-maker
(c) cracker-maker
(d) mechanic
22. ‘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
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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