Lost Spring Class 12 English MCQs – Test Your Knowledge!

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

“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.

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.

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

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

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.

“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?

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

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.’

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

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

Select the option that shows the correct relationship between (1) and (2) in 'Lost Spring'.

1. Bangle-makers are not able to escape the web of poverty.
2. Bangle makers lose their vision in their youth due to bad working conditions.

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

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