Lost Spring Class 12 English MCQs – Test Your Knowledge!

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

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

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

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

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

‘But promises like mine abound in every corner of his bleak world’. This suggests that

‘That’s why they left, looking for gold in the big city.’ Here ‘gold’ indicates

Choose the term which best matches the statement ‘Food is more important for survival than an identity.”?

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

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

Describing garbage as ‘gold’ metaphorically elevates its value to the children, helping the reader understand the _____ conditions under which these children live, where even garbage can represent crucial economic resources.

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.

Of the four meanings of ‘glibly’, select the option that matches in meaning with its usage in the extract.

“I will learn to drive a car,” he answers, looking straight into my eyes. His dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets that fill his town Firozabad, famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles. It is the center of India’s glass-blowing industry where families have spent generations working around furnaces, wielding glass, and making bangles for all the women in the land it seems. Mukesh’s family is among them. None of them know that it is illegal for children like him to work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light; that the law, if enforced, could get him and all those 20,000 children out of the hot furnaces where they slog their daylight hours, often losing the brightness of their eyes. Mukesh’s eyes beam as he volunteers to take me home, which he proudly says is being rebuilt.

Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE with reference to the extract?

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

Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence “Garbage to them is gold”.