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Who is the author of Lost Spring?

1. James Bond
2. Arundhati Roy
3. Sudha Murthy
4. Anees Jung

✅ Correct Answer: 4

This story is an excerpt from which book of the author?

1. Lost Spring - Stories of Stolen Childhood
2. Unveiling India
3. Breaking the Silence
4. The Song of India

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What does the author analyze in the story?

1. Rich people
2. Garbage
3. Poor children and their exploitation
4. Her works

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the central theme of the story Lost Spring?

1. Pitiable Poor children and their lost childhood
2. Garbage
3. Saheb and Mukesh
4. Spring Season

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What forces the children to live a life of exploitation?

1. Greed
2. Extreme Poverty
3. Peers
4. Parents

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to the author what was garbage for the parents?

1. Means of entertainment
2. Means of joy
3. Means of sorrow
4. Means of survival

✅ Correct Answer: 4

According to the author what was garbage for the children ?

1. Means of entertainment
2. Means of timepass
3. Means of playing
4. A wonder

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was Saheb?

1. A shopkeeper
2. A servant
3. A ragpicker
4. All

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What was Saheb looking for?

1. Eggs
2. Gold
3. Coins
4. Toys

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Is Saheb happy working at the tea stall?

1. Yes
2. Yes, he earns money
3. No earning
4. No, earning but no freedom

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did Saheb -e- Alam not go to school?

1. Not interested
2. Had no money to pay fees
3. Wanted to go for movie
4. Wanted to earn money

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the meaning of Saheb -e- Alam?

1. Owner
2. Rich man
3. Poor man
4. Lord of the Universe

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Where was Saheb employed?

1. At a tea stall in Seemapuri
2. At a saree shop
3. At a jewellery shop
4. At a sweet shop

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Why is the author calling garbage as 'gold' in the story?

1. Because of jewels in it
2. Because of gems in it
3. Because of gems in it
4. Because of its encashment value

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What do the boys appear like to the author in the story?

1. Morning crows
2. Evening crows
3. Morning birds
4. Evening Birds

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Name the birthplace of the author.

1. U.S.A
2. California
3. Koch
4. Rourkela

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What does the title 'Lost Spring' symbolise?

1. Lost blooming childhood
2. Autumn season
3. Lost money
4. Lost age

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Saheb hailed from which place?

1. Delhi
2. Seemapuri
3. Greenfields of Dhaka
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why did Saheb go through garbage dumps?

1. To find a silver coin
2. A rupee
3. A ten rupee note
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did Saheb leave his house?

1. Because the storm swept away his house and field
2. To enjoy a life of leisure
3. To find friends
4. To go to college

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What forced Saheb to be a ragpicker?

1. Hard work
2. Destiny
3. People around him
4. Acute poverty

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Where is Seemapuri?

1. In Noida
2. South Delhi
3. South Delhi
4. East Delhi

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did Saheb leave Dhaka?

1. Because of lack of resources
2. Because of lack of enough food
3. Because of friends
4. Because of parents

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who are responsible for the poor condition of bangle makers in Firozabad?

1. Parents
2. Society
3. Bureaucrats
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What efforts can help Mukesh materialise his dream of becoming a car driver?

1. Hard work
2. Going to garage
3. Guidance of his owner
4. All these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What are the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry?

1. Poor health
2. Impaired vision
3. Miserable life
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who employs the local families of Firozabad?

1. Bureaucrats
2. Merchants
3. Politicians
4. The glass blowing industry

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the function of glass blowing industry?

1. To make windows
2. To make doors
3. To mould glass
4. To mould glass and make colorful bangles

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What makes the working conditions of the children worst in the glass industry?

1. Dark dingy cells without light and air
2. Dazzling and sparking of welding light
3. High temperature
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What excuse do the rag pickers give for not wearing chappals?

1. Mothers don't give
2. No interest
3. A tradition
4. All these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who is Mukesh?

1. Student
2. Worker
3. Bangle maker
4. Ragpicker

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What are the reasons for the migration of people from villages to city in the lesson?

1. Sweeping of houses and fields by storms
2. No money
3. Education and unemployment
4. Safety

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What compels the workers in bangle industry of Firozabad to poverty?

1. Cast and ancestral profession
2. Karam theory and society
3. Bureaucrats and politicians
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The city of Firozabad is famous for what?

1. For casteism
2. For ragpickers
3. For poverty
4. For bangles

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Firozabad is the centre of which industry?

1. Cotton industry
2. Furniture industry
3. Textile industry
4. Glassblowing industry

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How is Mukesh's attitude different from that of his family?

1. Being daring, firm and clear
2. Being a fighter
3. Being a coward
4. Not clear

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the means of survival in Seemapuri?

1. Work
2. Merchandising
3. Education
4. Ragpicking

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is the metaphorical symbol of Seemapuri in the lesson?

1. Poverty
2. Exploitation
3. Enjoyment
4. A little hell

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is Mukesh's dream?

1. To be a doctor
2. To be a merchant
3. To be a rogue
4. To be a motor- mechanic

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What change did Anees Jung see in Saheb when she saw him standing by the gate of the neighbourhood club?

1. As if lost his freedom
2. Lost ownership
3. Lost joy
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4