LOST SPRING..CLASS TEST - Ch-2 FLAMINGO NCERT/ CBSE BASED Course

Class Test. Ch-2

Ch-2 Lost Spring by Anees Jung

Class 12

Sub- English

MM- 25 Time Zero Period

Q1.Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:

A)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.

(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'?

B)” 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

(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'.

Q2- Answer any five questions out of six 2x5=10

A.What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come from?

B.Garbage to them is gold'. Why does the author say so about the ragpickers of Seemapuri?

C.Explain the use of literary devices in the sentence "an army of barefoot boys who appear like the morning birds and disappear at noon."

D.The bangle makers of Firozabad make beautiful bangles and make everyone happy but they live and die in squalor. Elaborate

E. Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.

F.How is Mukesh's attitude to his situation different from that of his family?

Q3.Answer any One of the following questions 1x5=5

Grinding poverty and tradition condemn the children of ragpickers and bangle makers to a life of exploitation. Such children are deprived of all opportunities in life. Mukesh who opts out of the existing profession of his forefathers by resolving to start a new job of a motor mechanic symbolises the modern youth. What lesson do we learn from Mukesh's example

The barefoot ragpickers of Seemapuri live on the periphery of Delhi, yet, metaphorically speaking, miles away from it. Comment.

Would you agree that promises made to poor children are rarely kept? Why do you think this happens in the incident narrated in the text?

Q4.Attempt any one of the two. A or B 1x5=5

A)Arts Club of your school is going to organise a drawing and painting competition. Write a notice to be displayed on the school notice board inviting students to participate in it. Give all the necessary details. You are Rishabh/Ridhima, Secretary, Arts Club, Sunrise Public School, Gurugram, (Haryana) 1x4=4

B)You are Vijay/Veena. Head Boy/Girl of Minerva Public School, Bhopal. Your school is planning to organise a Career Counselling Workshop for the students of classes 9-12. Draft a notice informing students about the workshop mentioning day, date, time and venue.

Q5.Attempt any one of the two. A or B 1x5=5

A)Apart from newspapers, 24-hour news channels on TV are a major source of information for the common man. As compared to foreign news channels, the Indian channels are full of advertisements. Write a letter to the editor of a national newspaper urging the news channels to create a healthy balance between news and commercials. You are John/ Elizabeth, 18, Civil Lines, Meerut

B)Bal Vidya Public School, Bhilai, urgently requires a post-graduate teacher to teach political science for which they have placed an advertisement in The Bhilai Express. You are Sanjay/Sanjana Sharma from 21, Vasant Marg, Bhilai. Draft a letter including a CV, applying for the advertised post.

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