This document contains sample questions, answers and solutions from an educational question bank. It includes objective questions, short answer questions, long answer questions and a sample answer sheet with explanations for selected questions. The questions are from different chapters and cover a range of topics. The document provides chapter-wise questions and topic notes to help students prepare for their term exams according to the new pattern of questions.
This document contains sample questions, answers and solutions from an educational question bank. It includes objective questions, short answer questions, long answer questions and a sample answer sheet with explanations for selected questions. The questions are from different chapters and cover a range of topics. The document provides chapter-wise questions and topic notes to help students prepare for their term exams according to the new pattern of questions.
This document contains sample questions, answers and solutions from an educational question bank. It includes objective questions, short answer questions, long answer questions and a sample answer sheet with explanations for selected questions. The questions are from different chapters and cover a range of topics. The document provides chapter-wise questions and topic notes to help students prepare for their term exams according to the new pattern of questions.
This document contains sample questions, answers and solutions from an educational question bank. It includes objective questions, short answer questions, long answer questions and a sample answer sheet with explanations for selected questions. The questions are from different chapters and cover a range of topics. The document provides chapter-wise questions and topic notes to help students prepare for their term exams according to the new pattern of questions.
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Page Q37 , Q39 01 Page Q43 02 ANSWER SHEET SELF PRACTICE 3. (a) He doesn’t remember his home at all. option (c) is the correct answer. The text Explanation: The line means Saheb has no shows no evidence for options (a), (b) and recollection of his Dhaka home. Hence, option (d). (a) is the correct answer. Options (d) says that 23. The adults of Seempuri see garbage as the he remembers his home which is incorrect. means to eke out their living. While the children Options (b) and (c) are incorrect and not like Saheb view it like a place of wonder. The mentioned in the text. difference in points of view shows the difference 6. (c) irony in their responsibilities in life. Explanation: Saheb’s name sets up an 26. According to the Indian law, children below the expectation of being on top of the world but he age of 14 years cannot work legally and in lives in a ragpicker’s community and scrounges general, children should not work in dangerous through garbage heaps. This creates a sense conditions in any industry. of ‘irony’ where something has a different or 28. According to the writer Anees Jung, the societal opposite result from what is expected. So, only problem in which the bangle sellers are bound option (c) is the correct answer. Options (a), (b) is a web of poverty to which is added the and (d) are not the literary devices used here. stigma of caste and a network of authority 9. (b) Because Delhi has wealth and Seemapuri figures such as sahukars, the middlemen, has garbage. politicians, bureaucrats and keepers of the law. Explanation: Seemapuri and Delhi are 31. From the story, we can infer that the metaphorically miles away because they relationship between the bangle sellers and are very different in terms of wealth, jobs the authorities is fraught. This is evident when and opportunities. Therefore, option (b) is the they tell the author that if they try to organise correct answer. Options (a) and (c) are facts themselves into a cooperative, they're afraid but not the correct answer. Option (d) is totally that they will be harassed by the police. incorrect. 34. Saheb’s and Mukesh’s stories are similar as 13. (D) (c) majority of the population in Firozabad they both find some hope in their situations. is involved in bangle-making. Saheb finds it when he is searching the Explanation: ‘Every other house’ indicates garbage for notes and coins. Mukesh finds that a majority of the population in hope in dreaming of becoming a motor Firozabad is involved in bangle making. mechanic. The difference is that even though Therefore, option (c) is the correct answer. both are underprivileged, Saheb doesn’t know Options (a), (b) and (d) cannot be accurately a skill other than ragpicking whereas Mukesh inferred from the extract. Hence, they are knows the skill of bangle making. incorrect. 37. The title ‘Lost Spring’ is an apt title because it 15. (D) (d) endurance conveys the point that the author explains in Explanation: Option (d) alone is the the chapter. The title is an analogy. Childhood synonym, so it is the correct answer. is the spring of a person’s life. During spring, the Options (a), (b) and (c) are antonyms of weather is supposed to be cool, comfortable ‘survival’ hence they are incorrect. and beautiful. Spring is not hot like summer or cold like winter. Similarly, the childhood part of 16. (A) (d) confident a person’s life is supposed to be comfortable. Explanation: Mukesh is confident about his However, Saheb’s and Mukesh’s childhood dream at the moment. Hence, option (d) is is difficult as described in the chapter. They the correct answer. Options (a), (b) and (c) have in fact, lost their childhood in the race are incorrect because they do not match for survival. Hence, the author uses the phrase the situation. ‘lost spring’ to accurately portray the essence 17. (D) (c) He is too young. of the chapter. Explanation: Mukesh’s embarrassment 39. Ragpickers are at a risk of several health hasn’t turned to regret because he is too hazards because of the conditions they work in. young to know what regret is. Hence, Since food waste is not segregated from other
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www.educart.co wastes, there is a chance of infection from 43. Mukesh will first and foremost have to cling rotting food. Ragpickers also don’t have access onto his dream as he grows up. Circumstances to clean water for washing or for drinking. So, may work against him. He needs to be they can easily catch dysentery and diarrhea tenacious and tide over present day reality in from eating out of the rubbish bins. Since order to pursue his dream. He may even have electronic waste is also not segregated here, to work as a bangle maker for a while in order electrical devices with removeable and non- to pay the fees for his course in Automobile removable batteries (car batteries, phone Mechanical Training. Alternatively, he can batteries) are tossed in the garbage heap. This apprentice himself to a mechanic to learn means dangerous heavy metals like lithium, a on the job. He will also have to convince his component of batteries today, can leach into parents and grandparents to support him. the garbage and thus, into the soil. Ragpickers, This will be the toughest part. It will take who come into contact with battery waste, many years probably before his dream can be can even be poisoned. Added to that is the risk realised but if he is determined, he will make it. of respiratory diseases from inhaling smoke from burning garbage.