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LOST SPRING by Anees Jung Class-12th CBSE Test 

1. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.          4+4 = 8

(A) 

“If I start a school, will you come?” I ask, half-joking. “Yes,” he says, smiling broadly. A few days later I see him running up to me. “Is your school ready?” “It takes longer to build a school,” I say, embarrassed at having made a promise that was not meant. But promises like mine abound in every corner of his bleak world.

I. Why does Saheb ‘smiles broadly’ in this para?

(a) because author offers him tennis shoes  

(b) he believes author unquestionably 

(c) he is excited not to go to tea stall anymore 

(d) he understands that the author is lying

II.“ But promises like mine abound …. in their bleak world”. Shows …..

(a) Their world is full of new promises. 

(b) Saheb and others like him spend their life on unfulfilled promises. 

(c) Many people like Anees Jung fulfill their promises 

(d) Their bleak world can be lit up by politicians promises

III. What excuse does Anees Jung for not fulfilling her promise?

(a) That she had financial constraints 

(b) That her promise is in progress 

(c) That she forgot as it was only for fun

(d)None of the above

IV. How does Saheb respond to the narrator’s advice?

(a) Saheb ignores as he knew narrator was lying 

(b) Saheb responds that he would go one it is there 

(c) That author feels embarrassed 

(d) Saheb listens to her advice silently

(B) 

Listening to them, I see two distinct worlds— one of the family, caught in a web of poverty, burdened by the stigma of caste in which they are born; the other a vicious circle of the Shahukars, the middlemen, the policemen, the keepers of law, the bureaucrats and the politicians. Together they have imposed the baggage on the child that he cannot put down. Before he is aware, he accepts it as naturally as his father. To do anything else would mean to dare. And daring is not part of his growing up. When I sense a flash of it in Mukesh I am cheered. “I want to be a motor mechanic,’ he repeats. He will go to a garage and learn. But the garage is a long way from his home. “I will walk,” he insists. “Do you also dream of flying a plane?” He is suddenly silent. “No,” he says, staring at the ground. In his small murmur there is an embarrassment that has not yet turned into regret. 

V. Which two worlds has the narrator divided the people of Firozabad

(a) Shahukars and ragpickers 

(b) Servant and servicemen 

(c) Brahmin (Priest) and Shahukars(traders) 

(d) Exploiters and the exploited

VI. What is the ‘baggage’ here?

(a) Lost of heavy school bags for these children

(b)Heavy spirals of bangles which they sell

(c) the compulsion to work in the bangle factories

(d) poverty and traditions have condemned the children

 

VII. “When I sense a flash of it in Mukesh I am cheered.” What is this a reference to? 

(a) Mukesh had the courage to think differently

(b) That he dreams to be a motor mechanic

(c) He wanted to break the chains of middlemen, etc. 

(d) That he learns mechanic work unlike others

VIII. Mukesh stares at the ground as-

(a) He knew he was lower caste

(b)He was dreaming small

(c) He was dreaming big

(d)He didn’t dare to look into the eyes of an educated person

2. Read the statements and answer the questions that follows.       (1x8 =8 Marks)

I. Saheb’s discarded and worn-out tennis shoes are 

(a) An indication to procure different ones

(b) A dream come true

(c) A sign of his poverty

(d) An insult to the sport itself

II. When the older man enters, wife of Mukesh’s elder brother draws her veil

(a) Because religion demands it

(b) Because her mother-in- law demands it

(c) Because it is habitual to people of Firozabad

(d) Because custom demands it

III. A young man in Firozabad is burdened under the baggage of two worlds. What are they?

(1) family, caught in a web of poverty, burdened by the stigma of caste

(2) vicious circle of the Shahukars, etc.

(3) leader among them

Choose the correct code:

(a) Only (1) 

(b) Both (1) and (2) 

(c) Both (1) and (3) 

 (d) All (1), (2), (3) 

IV. Which of the following is NOT true about Mukesh?

(1) Insists on being his own master

(2) dream of becoming water-mechanic

(3) refuses to carry on the family tradition of bangle,

(4) wanted to live in vicious circle of poverty

Choose the correct code:

(a) Only (2) 

(b)Only (2) and (4) 

(c) Both (1) and (2) 

(d)Only (3)

V. What does the author analyze in the story?

(1) Poor children and their exploitation

(2) loss of education and play

(3) obsession to customs & traditions

(4) role of society

Choose the correct code:
(a) Only (1) 

(b) only (2)

(c) both (1) and (3)

(d) All of the above

VI. In what sense is garbage NOT gold to the rag-pickers?

(a) it is a means of sustenance to them

(b)it gives them their daily bread

(c) it gives them a roof over their heads

(d)None of the above

VII. What change do you not find in Saheb’s life when he stops rag-picking and starts working at a tea-stall?

(a) now becomes his own master

(b)lost his carefree look

(c) lost his freedom

(d) Found the steel canister heavier than the plastic bag

VIII. Why can’t the bangle makers of Firozabad organize themselves into a cooperative?

(1) they are the ones who will be hauled up by the police

(2) There is no leader among them,

(3) no one who could help them see things differently

Choose the correct code:

(a) Only (1) 

(b) Both (1) and (2) 

(c) All three 

(d)None of the above 

3. Attempt all the questions given below, in 30-40 words each.       2x12= 24 Marks

Qs1. “Mukesh is a rebel.” Do you agree? Give reasons in support of your answer.

Qs2. It is ‘a tradition to stay barefoot …’. What is the attitude of the rag-pickers of Seemapuri towards wearing shoes? 

Qs3. What is the “cry” that rings in every home of bangle maker in Firozabad? 

                                            OR

Why can’t bangle makers organize themselves into a cooperative? 

Qs4. Despite abject poverty, Saheb wanted to be a free bird than a bonded laborer. Why? 

Qs5. Seemapuri is ‘a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically.’ Justify this statement. 

Qs6. Through the years rag picking has acquired the ‘proportions of a fine art’ in Seemapuri. Justify the statement. 

Qs7. What is the actual name of Saheb? What does it signify? How is it ironically to his condition in Seemapuri? 

Qs8. In what sense is garbage gold to the ragpickers? 

Qs9. ‘‘It is his Karam, his destiny.’’ What is Mukesh’s family’s attitude towards their situation? 

Qs10. “In his small murmur there is an embarrassment that has not yet turned into regret.” Explain. 

Qs11. Do the poor have right to dream? Why then does the author call Mukesh’s dream ‘a mirage’? 

Qs12. “Little has moved with time in Firozabad”, says Anees Jung. Why does she say so? 

4. Attempt all the questions given below, in 120-150 words each.    2x5=10 Marks

Qs13. In India, we believe in prayers. Whenever we are faced with a problem, we pray to God. A son of a priest at Udipi, while going to school, prayed at the temple for a pair of shoes. Thirty years later we find his son well dressed in a school uniform. What has brought about this change—the father’s prayer or the father having gone to school or both? Give a reasonable answer. 

Qs14. Mukesh is not like the others. His “dreams loom like a mirage amidst the dust of streets that fill his town Firozabad”. Justify the statement in the light of contrast in the mindsets of Mukesh and the people of Firozabad. 

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