Lost spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood MCQs with Answers NCERT Class 12 English Lesson 2

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The Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood MCQ with Answers from CBSE Class 12 English Flamingo Book Lesson 2

Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood MCQs of Class 12 English Chapter 2, by Anees Jung have been compiled for students to practice. Students of Class 12 can prepare the MCQs of Chapter 2 Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood from NCERT Flamingo book. Each question has four options followed by the correct answer. Students can also take a free test of the Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood MCQ Question Answers Quiz. These MCQ Questions have been selected based on the latest exam pattern as announced by CBSE.

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Class 12 English Flamingo Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood Chapter 2 Multiple Choice Questions

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are a type of objective assessment in which a person is asked to choose one or more correct answers from a list of available options. An MCQ presents a question along with several possible answers.

1. Who is the author of Lost Spring?

A) James Bond

B) Arundhati Roy

C) Sudha Murthy

D) Anees Jung

 

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

A) Lost Spring – Stories of Stolen Childhood

B) Unveiling India

C) Breaking the Silence

D) The Song of India

 

3. What does the author analyze in the story?

A) Rich people

B) Garbage

C) Poor children and their exploitation

D) People of Dhaka

 

4. What is the central theme of the story Lost Spring?

A) Pitiable Poor children and their lost childhood

B) Garbage

C) Life of refugees

D) Spring Season

 

5. What forces the children to live a life of exploitation?

A) Greed

B) Extreme Poverty

C) Peers

D) Parents

 

6. According to the author what was garbage for the parents?

A) Means of entertainment

B) Means of joy

C) Means of sorrow

D) Means of survival

 

7. According to the author what was garbage for the children?

A) Means of entertainment

B) Means of time-pass

C) Means of playing

D) A wonder

 

8. Who was Saheb?

A) A shopkeeper

B) A servant

C) A ragpicker

D) All

 

9. What does Saheb get by working at the tea stall?

A) A pay of Rs 800 per month

B) Place to live

C) Both A and B

D) None of these

 

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

A) Not interested in study

B) There wasn’t any in the vicinity

C) Had to work instead

D) He had been thrown out of a school

 

11. What is the meaning of Saheb -e- Alam?

A) Owner

B) Rich man

C) Poor man

D) Lord of the Universe

 

12. Where was Saheb employed?

A) At a tea stall in Seemapuri

B) At a saree shop

C) At a jewellery shop

D) At a sweet shop

 

13. Why is the author calling garbage ‘gold’ in the story?

A) Because they sell the entire heap of garbage at a high price

B) Because it turns golden yellow in colour like gold

C) Because they find gold in it

D) Because it provides them with valuable things that they cannot buy

 

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

A) Morning crows

B) Evening sparrows

C) Morning birds

D) Evening Monkeys

 

15.  Name the birthplace of the author.

A) U.S.A

B) California

C) Koch

D) Rourkela

 

16. What does the title ‘Lost Spring’ symbolise?

A) Lost blooming childhood

B) Autumn season

C) Lost money

D) Lost age

 

17. Saheb hailed from which place?

A) Delhi

B) Seemapuri

C) Dhaka

D) None of these

18. Where is Seemapuri?

A) In Noida
B) South Delhi
C) North Delhi
D) East Delhi

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

A) Parents
B) Society
C) Bureaucrats
D) All of these

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

A) Poor health
B) Impaired vision
C) Miserable life
D) All of these

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

A) Dark dingy cells without light and air
B) Dazzling and sparking of welding light
C) High temperature
D) All of these 

22. Firozabad is the centre of which industry?
A) Cotton industry
B) Furniture industry
C) Textile industry
D) Glassblowing industry

23. How is Mukesh’s attitude different from that of his family?
A) Being daring, firm and clear
B) Being a fighter
C) Being a coward
D) Not clear  

24. What is Mukesh’s dream?
A) To be a doctor
B) To be a merchant
C) To be a rogue
D) To be a motor- mechanic

25. What false promise did the author make to Saheb-e-Alam?
A) Providing a oster home
B) Getting him a job
C) Providing free food
D) Opening a school

26. ‘That’s why they left, looking for gold in the big city.’ Here ‘gold’ indicates
A) misfortune of circumstances.
B) riches
C) means of survival.
D) Anything of value

27. ‘But promises like mine abound in every corner of his bleak world’. This suggests that
A) there is no shortage of promises which remain unfulfilled.
B) there is a deficiency of people promising things for betterment.
C) people make a lot of promises which are often fulfilled.
D) promises made, live up to the expectations of people.

28. Why had the bangle-makers accepted their fate?
A) They felt it was due to their karma (deeds)
B) They were exploited by the police and other authorities
C) They had no money to do any other business
D) All of the above

29. Which of the following is NOT associated with bangle-making?
A) Furnaces
B) Designing
C) Dingy cells
D) High temperatures

30. The squatters in Seemapuri arrived as refugees from Bangladesh in
A) 1965
B) 1971
C) 1980
D) 1986

31. ‘Hearing him, one wonders if he has achieved what many have failed in their lifetime. He has a roof over his head!’ Which of the following is true, in the context of the given line?
A) The husband of the elderly woman had earned sufficient to get a roof over his head
B) The writer gives a positive picture for Mukesh’s family
C) By saying so, the writer suggests that Mukesh could become a motor mechanic
D) Mukesh’s father had earned enough to get a roof over his head

32. Assertion: The bangle makers of Firozabad are reluctant to organize themselves into a cooperative.
Reason: They are trapped in the vicious cycle of debt and afraid of the police.
A) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
B) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
C) Assertion is true and reason is false.
D) Assertion is false and reason is true.

33. “Can a god-given lineage ever be broken?” These words were spoken by _____
A) Mukesh
B) Mukesh’s father
C) Mukesh’s grandmother
D) The author

34. Assertion: Mukesh has potential to materialize his dream of becoming a motor mechanic.
Reason: He is an ambitious boy.
A) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
B) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
C) Assertion is true and reason is false.
D) Assertion is false and reason is true.

35. What was Saheb’s real name?
A) Saheb-e-Alam
B) Saheb -e- Bahadur
C) Saheb -e- Kamal
D) Saheb-e-Malik

36. Assertion (A): The bangle makers are caught endlessly in a spiral that moves from poverty to apathy to greed and to injustice.
Reason (R): They are caught in the web of poverty, burdened by the stigma of caste.
A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
B) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.
C) A is true but R is false
D) Both A and R are false

37. What do the bangles symbolise in Indian culture?
A) Auspiciousness for a married Indian woman
B) Corruption of the policemen
C) Fidelity of a woman
D) Strong marital bond

38. What figure of speech is used in – “His dream looms like a mirage”
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Alliteration
D) Personification

39. “Is your school ready”? Who asked this question?
A) Saheb’s mother
B) Saheb’s friends
C) The author
D) Saheb

40. What is Saheb watching from the fenced gate of a club?
A) Two young men playing tennis
B) Two women ballet dancing
C) Two quarrelling dogs
D) A gardener planting flowers

41. Saheb’s discarded and worn out tennis shoes are for him
A) an indication to procure different ones.
B) a dream come true.
C) a sign of his poverty.
D) an insult to the sport itself.

42. Select the suitable option for the given statements, based on your reading of Lost Spring. (SQP 2021-22)
(1) The writer notices that Saheb has lost his carefree look.
(2) Saheb has had to surrender his freedom for ₹800 per month.
A) (1) is false but (2) is true.
B) Both (1) and (2) are true.
C) (2) is a fact but unrelated to (1).
D) (1) is the cause for (2).

43. Why are the ragpickers provided ration cards?
A) The politicians ensure cheap food in return for votes
B) Ration cards can be made easily
C) Free ration is all that the ragpickers want
D) These work as identity cards

44. “I sometimes find a rupee, even a ten-rupee note,” Saheb says, his eyes lighting up. Here lighting up means –
A) Small bulbs illuminate in his eyes
B) His eyes shine at the thought of finding currency in the garbage
C) He places a candle near his eyes
D) All of these

45. “Garbage to them is gold. It is their daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is a leaking roof.” Do they place garbage dumps on the top of their dwelling units to act as a roof?
A) Yes, they recycle the garbage dumps to make sheets which can be used as a cover on the dwelling units.
B) No, this is said figuratively to mean that they earn money by selling things which they search in the garbage dumps. This money helps them get a roof over their dwelling units.
C) Yes, they collect old wires from the garbage dumps and weave meshes which act as roofs on the dwelling units.
D) None of these

46. Which of the following is NOT true about the slum in Seemapuri?
A) Structures made of mud
B) No sewage, drainage, running water
C) Roofs of tin and tarpaulin
D) No mobile toilets

47. Which season was it when the author saw Saheb standing in front of the tennis court?
A) Summer
B) Rainy
C) Winter
D) Not mentioned in the story

48. Which of the following is NOT true about Mukesh’s house?
A) Half-built shack
B) Glass-enamoured windows
C) Wobbly iron door
D) Firewood stove with thatched with dead grass

49. Mukesh’s grandfather became _____ with the dust from polishing glass bangles.
A) Asthmatic
B) Blind
C) Insomniac
D) Deaf

50. The daughter-in-law ______ her face in from of the elders.
A) Washed
B) Uncovered
C) Veiled
D) Touched

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ANSWER KEY

1 D 26 D
2 A 27 A
3 C 28 D
4 A 29 B
5 B 30 B
6 D 31 A
7 D 32 A
8 C 33 C
9 A 34 A
10 B 35 A
11 D 36 A
12 A 37 A
13 D 38 B
14 C 39 C
15 D 40 A
16 A 41 B
17 C 42 B
18 D 43 A
19 D 44 B
20 D 45 B
21 D 46 D
22 D 47 C
23 A 48 B
24 D 49 B
25 D 50 C

 

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