Class Test XII Eng Ch-1,2 The Last Lesson, Lost Spring

Weekly Test 

Class XII 

Subject - English 

MM:25 

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. 1x5=5

(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'?

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

1x5=5

But now it was all so still! I had counted on the commotion to get to my desk without being seen; but, of course, that day everything had to be as quiet as Sunday morning. Through the window I saw my classmates, already in their places, and M. Harnel walking up and down with his terrible iron ruler under his arm.

1. With inference from the passage counted on means

(a) To count numbers (b) To depend on

(d) To think (c) To borrow

2. Find the analogy of 'movement

3. Why did the narrator want to reach his desk without being seen?

(a) He was afraid of the enemy soldiers

(b) He was afraid of being caught by the teacher

(c) He was afraid of his classmates

(d) He was afraid of his mother

4. Why was everything quiet on a Sunday morning?

5. State True or False:

The statement: "M. Hamel walking up and down" means that he was walking on the wall of the classroom.

6. 'Still in the passage confers':

(a) calmness(b) drilling (c) lecture

(d) Hauser

Q3.Answer the following questions 

2x5=10M

A.Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry?

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

C.What could be some of the reasons for the migration of people from villages to cities?

D.Describe the living conditions of the people of Seemapuri.

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

 F. What was the unusual things that Franz notice in the school that day?

Answer any five of the following questions 1x5=5

1. Why is Firozabad famous for 

2. What do you mean by Lost Spring?

3. What is full name of Sabeb.

4.what do you mean by Squatter? Who are Squatter here?

5. Why has Sabeb left his country?

6. Is Saheb happy working at tea stall?