12th Eng Flamingo Ch-2 Lost Spring 5 SOLVED Extract, case study, assertionStrictly cbse board based
Ch-2- LOST SPRING BY ANEES JUNG
Directions: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
Extract -1
1. Unaware of what his name represents, he roams the streets with his friends, an army of barefoot boys who appear like the morning birds and disappear at noon. Over the months, I have come to recognise each of them.
"Why aren't you wearing chappals?" I ask one.
"My mother did not bring them down from the shelf," he answers simply.
"Even if she did, he will throw them off," adds another who is wearing shoes that do not match.
When I comment on it, he shuffles his feet and says nothing. "I want shoes," says a third boy who has never owned a pair all his life. Traveling across the country I have seen children walking barefoot, in cities, on village roads. It is not lack of money but a tradition to stay barefoot, is one explanation.
(a) What is the writer's purpose in allowing the boys to speak for themselves, via., dialogue, as opposed to only a writer's commentary?
(b) The line, "It is not lack of money but a tradition to stay barefoot" can be best classified as:
(i) a fact (ii) an opinion (iii) a theme
(iv) a plot point
(c) Explain any one possible inference that can be drawn from the line, "an army of barefoot boys who appear like the morning birds and disappear at noon".
(d) Identify the line from the text that bears evidence to the fact that the writer's association with the boys is not a recent one..
(e) Based on the context provided in the extract, select the most likely comment that the writer would have made, based on the boy's reaction to the mismatched shoes.
(i) "Why are your shoes mismatched? That's not a good look."
(ii) "Don't worry about your shoes, you can wear a matching pair later."
(iii) "I like your shoes, What matters is that they protect your feet."
(iv) "Have you chosen to mismatch your shoes?"
(f) Complete the sentence with ONE word.
The phrase "he answers simply", suggests that the boy's response to the writer's question about why he wasn't wearing chappals was……
EXTRACT -2
2. And in dark hutments, next to lines of flames of flickering oil lamps, sit boys and girls with their fathers and mothers, welding pieces of coloured glass into circles of bangles. Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside. That is why they often end up losing their eyesight before they become adults.
(a) Complete the sentence with reference to the extract:
Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside because…….
(b) Which of the following would NOT be true?
(i) The hutments were shining and inviting.
(ii) The children's lives were as bleak as their surrounding.
(iii) There were no electricity connections.
(iv) The boys and girls had got used to the dark.
(c) The bangle workers lose their eyesight before they became adults because:
(i) they already have poor eyesight.
(ii) they work in dim light.
(iii) they are married in childhood.
(iv) they are malnourished.
(d) Which of the following most nearly means 'adjusted' in the context of the extract?
(i) Conditioned (ii) Favoured
(iii) Accepted (iv) Reconciled
(e) 'Flickering oil lamps' suggests…….
(f) What is the antonym from the extract of the word 'rarely'?
EXTRACT -3.
"Why do you do this?" I ask Saheb whom I encounter every morning scrounging for gold in the garbage dumps of my neighbourhood. Saheb left his home long ago. Set amidst the green fields of Dhaka, his home is not even a distant memory.
(a) Who is speaking to whom in the first line?
(i) Saheb, to the narrator
(ii) Saheb's mother to her son
(iii) The narrator to Saheb
(iv) Narrator to the bangle-seller
b) 'Why do you do this?' What does the person being asked this question do?
(i) Ragpicking (ii) Bangle making
(iii) Working in front of the furnace
(iv) Loitering aimlessly
(c) Saheb's home before coming to Delhi was in…….
(d) What does 'encounter' mean in the extract?
(e) Who is the author?
(f) What is Saheb's full name?
Extract -4
There were many storms that swept away their fields and homes, his mother tells him. That's why they left, looking for gold in the big city where he now lives.
(a) They left their homes because……
(b) What do they do in the big cities?
(c) Where does 'he' live now?
(d) What does 'swept away' mean in the extract?
(e) Who is the writer of the lesson from which the above extract has been taken?
(i) William Douglas (ii) Alphonse Daudet
(iii) Kamala Das (iv) Anees Jung
(f) Whose mother is being referred to?
(i) Mukesh's (ii) Saheb's
(iii) The narrator's (iv) None of these
Extract -5
In this case, the elder is an impoverished bangle maker. Despite long years of hard labour, first as a tailor, then a bangle maker, he has failed to renovate a house, send his two sons to school.
(a) Whom does the impoverished bangle maker refer to?
(b) What business was he into before being a bangle maker?
(i) Ragpicker (ii) Tailor
(iii) Tea stall owner (iv) None of these
(c) What did he fail to do even after working so hard?
(i) Could not purchase a house
(ii) Could not renovate his house
(iii) Could not send his sons to school
(iv) Both (ii) and (iii)
(d) How many men are there in the family?
(e) Give a word which can replace 'renovate' in the passage.
(f) Give an antonym of 'impoverished'.
Extract -6
9. Read the following extracts and answer the questions for any one of the given two, (b): 6 They have lived here for more than thirty years without an identity, without permits but with ration cards that get their names on voters' lists and enable them to buy grain. Food is more important for survival than 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 asked them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers. Wherever they find food, they pitch their tents (Lost Spring) (I) The ragpickers have been living there for decades.1m (a) three (b) four (c) two (d) five (ii) Why do these people have ration cards ?1m (iii) What do you infer about their lifestyle from the phrase 'pitch their tents ?1m (iv) In spite of the hardships, they are not willing to go back to their homeland because 1m
(v) The women had a/an approach towards life. 1m (a) idealistic (b) passive (c) indifferent (d) practical (vi) What does the term 'go to bed without an aching stomach' indicate?
Ch-2-Lost Spring (Questions and answers)
https://youtu.be/xqM2T9-ofuw?si=q-DkQdTQGB7SfV5v
ANSWERS
Extract -1
(a) The writer's purpose in allowing the boys to speak for themselves, via., dialogue is to add a sense of authenticity and realism to the story.
(b) (ii) an opinion
(c) The inference that can be drawn from the given line is that the boys may belong to poor or marginalised backgrounds and do not have access to proper footwear.
(d) The line "Over the months, I have come to recognise each of them." From the text bears evidence to the fact that the writer's association with the boys is not a recent one.
(e) (iii) "I like your shoes, What matters is that they protect your feet."
(f) straight forward or clear
Extract -2
Answers
(a) they regularly work in dark hutments in flickering dim light
(b) (i) The hutments were shining and inviting.
(c) (ii) they work in dim light.
(d) (i) Conditioned
(e) the dim light
(f) Often
Extract -3
Answer
(a) (iii) The narrator to Saheb
(b) (i) Ragpicking
(c) Dhaka
(d) In the extract 'encounter' means to meet.
(e) The name of the author is Anees Jung.
(f) Saheb's full name is Saheb-e-Alam.
Answers
Extract -4
(a) their homes were swept away by storms
(b) They do ragpicking in the big cities.
(c) Now 'he' lives at Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi.
(d) In the extract 'swept away' means destroyed.
(e) (iv) Anees Jung
(f) (ii) Saheb's
Answers
Extract -5
(a) The impoverished bangle maker refers to Mukesh's father.
(b) (ii) Tailor
(c) (iv) Both (ii) and (iii).
(d) There are three men in the family.
(e) A word which can replace 'renovate' is refurbish.
(f) An antonym of 'impoverished' is wealthy.
Ch-2-Lost Spring
https://youtu.be/xqM2T9-ofuw?si=q-DkQdTQGB7SfV5v
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