Lost Spring Class 12 English MCQs – Test Your Knowledge!

What is the reason for Saheb’s eyes ‘lighting up’?

Select the option that lists the feelings and attitudes corresponding to the following:

1. I ask half-joking
2. ...he says, smiling broadly

‘She still has bangles on her wrist, but no light in her eyes.’ This implies that

What is implied by the description of rag-picking as having ‘acquired the proportions of a fine art’ in the excerpt?

Unaware of what his name represents, he roams the streets with his friends, an army of barefoot boys who appear like the morning birds and disappear at noon. Over the months, I have come to recognize each of them.

“Why aren’t you wearing chappals?” I ask one.

“My mother did not bring them down from the shelf,” he answers simply.

“Even if she did, he will throw them off,” adds another who is wearing shoes that do not match.

When I comment on it, he shuffles his feet and says nothing. “I want shoes,” says a third boy who has never owned a pair all his life. Traveling across the country I have seen children walking barefoot, in cities, on village roads. It is not lack of money but a tradition to stay barefoot is one explanation.

Based on the context provided in the extract, select the most likely comment that the writer would have made, based on the boy's reaction to the mismatched shoes.

Food is more important for survival than an identity. “If at the end of the day, we can feed our families and go to bed without an aching stomach, we would rather live here than in the fields that gave us no grain,” say a group of women in tattered saris when I ask them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers. Wherever they find food, they pitch their tents that become transit homes. Children grow up in them, becoming partners in survival. And survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art. Garbage to them is gold. It is their daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is a leaking roof. But for a child, it is even more.

The phrase ‘transit homes’ refer to dwellings that are

Choose the term which best matches the statement ‘The young men echo the lament of their elders.’

What does ‘acquired the proportions of a fine art’ mean?

Choose the statement that is NOT TRUE about ragpickers in Seemapuri.

“I have nothing else to do,” he mutters, looking away. “Go to school,” I say glibly, realizing immediately how hollow the advice must sound.
“There is no school in my neighborhood. When they build one, I will go.”
“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.

Saheb’s muttering and ‘looking away’ suggests his

The line, "It is not lack of money but a tradition to stay barefoot" can be best classified as:

“I have nothing else to do,” he mutters, looking away. “Go to school,” I say glibly, realizing immediately how hollow the advice must sound.
“There is no school in my neighborhood. When they build one, I will go.”
“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.

Select the option that lists reasons why Saheb’s world has been called ‘bleak’.

1. The absence of parental presence
2. The poor socioeconomic conditions
3. His inability to address problems
4. His lack of life-skills
5. They denied opportunities for schooling

Select the suitable option for the given statements, based on your reading of Lost Spring.

1. The writer notices that Saheb has lost his carefree look.
2. Saheb has had to surrender his freedom for ₹800 per month.

‘He has a roof over his head!’ The tone of the author is

From this chapter, it is evident that the author has an attitude of