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Lost Spring MCQ

By- Anees Jung

1. What did the man from Udipi pray for, when he was young?

(a) a pair of trousers (b) a pair of shoes

2. The author visited the town and temple of Udipi after

(a) ten years (b) five years (c) thirty years (d) fifteen years

3. The colony of ragpickers is situated in

(a) the south of Delhi (b) Mongolpuri

4. The squatters in Seemapuri arrived as refugees from Bangladesh in

5. The rag pickers have no identity, but they have

(a) permits (b) passports (c) ration cards (d) licenses

6. For the rag pickers, food is more important than

(a) clothes (b) shoes (c) identity (d) shelter

7. According to the author, rag picking has become, over the years, a

(a) profession (b) fine art (c) tradition (d) culture

8. Garbage to the rag pickers is

(a) money (b) daily bread, a roof over their heads

9. One day, Saheb was seen by the author, watching some young men playing

(a) cricket (b) tennis (c) hockey (d) soccer

10. Saheb did not like to work in the tea-stall because

(a) he was getting only Z 800 (b) he hated the steel canister

11. Sunny-gold, paddy green, royal blue, pink, purple, every colour born out of the seven colours of the rainbow. What is this a reference to?

(a) clothes (b) birds (c) bangles (d) bindis

12. Savita, a young girl is seen by the author,

(a) stitching clothes (b) washing clothes

13. Which of the objects below best serves as a symbol of an Indian woman’s `suhag’?

(a) bindi (b) sindoor (c) bangles (d) henna-dyed hands

14. ‘She has not enjoyed a full meal in her entire lifetime’. Who is ‘she’ in the given sentence?

(a) the elderly woman sitting close to Savita

(b) Mukesh’s sister-in-law

15. “One wonders if he has achieved what many have failed to achieve in their lifetime. He has a roof over his head”; these lines were said in reference to the condition of

(a) the elderly woman’s old husband (b) Mukesh’s father

16. Who will be hauled up by the police if they try to get organized?

(a) the old citizens (b) the owners of the factories

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17. What bothers the author most about the bangle makers?

(a) the stigma of poverty and caste (b) the affluence of the landlords

18. The sahukars, the middlemen, the policemen, the keepers of the law, the bureaucrats and the politicians. Together these people

(a) worked for the benefit or bangle makers

(b) imposed the baggage on the child that he cannot put down

(d) abolished child labour

19. Mukesh wants to learn to become a motor mechanic by

(a) finding a tutor (b) going to a garage to learn

20. He is content to dream of cars. Who is ‘he’ being talked about?

(a) Mukesh (b) Saheb (c) Sahukar (d) Politician

21.’Why do you do this?’ This question was asked by the author to

(a) the bangle sellers (b) Mahesh

22.Saheb’s profession was that of a

(a) cook (b) rag-picker (c) bangle seller (d) driver

23.Saheb’s home, before Delhi, was in

(a) Bengal (b) Orissa (c) Dhaka (d) Bihar

24.Why did Saheb and his family move to Delhi?

(a) because storms had swept away their fields and homes

(b) their village was flooded

(d) there was a deadly epidemic in the village

25.What were Saheb and his family looking for in Delhi?

(a) dollars (b) rupees (c) pounds (d) gold

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26. The author advised Saheb to go to

(a) school (b) college (c) club (d) playground

27. ‘Is your school ready? Who asked this question?

(a) Saheb’s mother (b) Saheb’s friends (c) the author (d) Saheb

28. Saheb’s full name was

(a) Mughal-e-Azam (b) Saheb-e-Alam

29. One explanation which the author gets about children choosing to remain barefoot is

(a) they have no money (b) tradition

30. The man from Udipi was the son of an

(a) doctor (b) teacher (c) priest (d) engineer

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31. Mukesh belonged to a family of

(a) farmers (b) rag-pickers (c) bangle makers (d) motor mechanics

32. What did Mukesh want to become, on growing up?

(a) a motor mechanic (b) a shopkeeper

33. Bangle industry flourishes in the town of

(a) Ferozepur (b) Firozabad (c) Ferozgarh (d) Farukhabad

34. The families of the bangle-makers live in

(a) comfortable environment (b) big houses

35. If laws were to be enforced, it would bring about change and relief in the lives of about

(a) ten thousand children (b) twenty thousand children

36. Mukesh’s house is covered with

(a) stones (b) bricks (c) tiles (d) thatch

37. The frail woman in Mukesh’s house is his

(a) mother (b) elder brother’s wife (c) wife (d), niece

38. Mukesh’s father is a

(a) car-driver (b) bangle-maker (c) cracker-maker (d) mechanic

39. What was the profession of Mukesh’s father before he became a bangle-maker?

(a) tailor (b) carpenter (c) plumber (d) Mason

40. ‘Can a god-given lineage ever be broken?’ These words were spoken by

(a) Mukesh (b) Mukesh’s grandfather

41.What was like a dream come true for Saheb in the chapter ‘Lost Spring’?

(A) working at a tea stall

(B) a pair of discarded tennis shoes

(D) all of the above

42. How did Mukesh’s father lose his eyesight in the chapter ‘Lost Spring’?

(A) in an accident

(B) due to old age

(D) due to dust from polishing glass bangles

43. According to the author Anees Jung of the chapter ‘Lost Spring’, for children like Saheb, _____.

(A) a heap of garbage is like a gold mine

(B) studying in a school is very easy

(D) earning livelihood is a cakewalk

44. In context to the chapter ‘Lost Spring’, childhood is considered as ________.

(A) spring of human life

(B) should full of joy, pleasure and play

(D) Both (A) & (B)

45. ‘Sometimes I Find A Rupee in the Garbage’- which chapter has this line been taken from?

(A) The lost childhood

(B) Lost Spring

(D) none of the above

46. ‘I Want to Drive a Car’- who said this to whom in the chapter ‘Lost Spring’?

(A) Saheb to Anees

(B) Mukesh to Saheb

(D) Mukesh to Anees

47. What was Saheb’s profession in the chapter ‘Lost Spring’?

(A) tea stall owner

(B) rag picker

(D) bangle maker

48. What was Mukesh’s profession in the chapter ‘Lost Spring’?

(A) rag picker

(B) motor mechanic

(D) bangle maker

49. Where did Saheb live before moving to Delhi, in the chapter ‘Lost Spring’?

(A) Seemapuri

(B) Bengal

(D) Dhaka

50. Where did Anees Jung, the author of the chapter ‘Lost Spring’ ask Saheb to go?

(A) Firozabad

(B) school

(D) Delhi

Answers:-

1. (b) a pair of shoes

2. (c) thirty years

3. (d) Seemapuri

4. (b) 1971

5. (a) permits

6. (c) identity

7. (b) fine art

8. (b) daily bread, a roof over their heads

9.(b) tennis

10. (c) he was no longer his own master

11. (c) bangles

12.(c) soldering pieces of glass

13. (c) bangles

14. (a) the elderly woman sitting close to Savita

15.(a) the elderly woman’s old husband

16. (c) the group of young men

17.(a) the stigma of poverty and caste

18.(b) imposed the baggage on the child that he cannot put down

19.(b) going to a garage to learn

20. (a) Mukesh

21. (c) Saheb

22. (b) rag-picker

23. (c) Dhaka

24.(a) because storms had swept away their fields and homes

25.(d) gold

26. (a) school

27. (d) Saheb

28. (b) Saheb-e-Alam

29.(b) tradition

30.(c) priest

31. (c) bangle makers

32. (a) a motor mechanic

33. (b) Firozabad

34.(c) very small houses

35. (b) twenty thousand children

36. (d) thatch

37. (b) elder brother’s wife

38. (b) bangle-maker

39.(a) tailor

40. (c) Mukesh’s grandmother

41.(B) a pair of discarded tennis shoes

42. (D) due to dust from polishing glass bangles

43. (A) a heap of garbage is like a gold mine

44. (D) Both (A) & (B)

45. (B) Lost Spring

46.(D) Mukesh to Anees

47. (B) rag picker

48. (D) bangle maker

49. (D) Dhaka

50. (B) school

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