Lost Spring Class 12 English MCQs – Test Your Knowledge!

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"Lost Spring" highlights child labor and poverty through real-life narratives. It sheds light on social injustice and lost childhood dreams.


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Lost Spring

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

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“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?

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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.

4 / 15

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

5 / 15

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

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“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.

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Years of mind-numbing toil have killed all initiative and the ability to dream’. This shows that

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Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles indicating that

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

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“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

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‘I will learn to drive a car,’ he answers, looking straight into my eyes. This sentence highlights Mukesh was

  1. determined
  2. fearless
  3. hopeful
  4. valiant
  5. ambitious
  6. stern

12 / 15

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

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

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13 / 15

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

14 / 15

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

15 / 15

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

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