L-2 Class Test Lost Spring

L-2 Lost Spring Class Test 

Set-A Q1.Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow 5M  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?	Set-B Q1.Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow 5M 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'.
Q2.Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow 5x1=5 A.Justify the Title Lost Spring . B.Is Saheb happy working at the tea- stall? Explain. C.What is full name of Saheb? What does it mean? D.What do you know about Mukesh father? E.What makes the city of Ferozabad famous for? F.Write the Name of lesson and writer.	Q2.Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow.5x1=5 A.Lost Spring is an excerpt from her book…… B.Who is Mukesh? What is his dream? C.Who is Savita? D.How is Mukesh different from his peers/and parents? E. What is irony about Saheb’s name? F. Why had Saheb left his native place?
Q3. Write the meaning of these words any two  Metaphorically, impoverished, vicious 1mark.	Q3. Write the meaning of these words any two.1 mark acquaintance,mirage, sizzling
Q4.Answer ANY FIVE  of the following questions given below in about 40-50 words 2x5=10 A.What is the story of a man from Udupi ? B. What is Sahab looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he? and where has he come from? C. Explain the use of literary device in the sentence and  an Army barefoot boys who appear like the morning birds and disappear at noon. D. The description of Seemapuri creates a very dismal picture explain. E. “Garbage to them is gold” why does the author say this about the ragpickers? F. How does illiteracy and ignorance play a cruel game in the lives of the bangle makers?	Q4.Answer ANY FIVE  of the following questions given below in about 40-50 words 2x5=10 A.Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry? B. Seemapuri is on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it explain. C. What did the garbage mean to the children of Seemapuri and to their parents? D. Garbage to them is gold ; Why does the author say so about ragpickers of Seemapuri? E. Why could the bangle makers not organised themselves into cooperative
Q5.Answer ANY ONE  of the following questions given below in about 12-150 words 4x1=4 A.Why should child labour be eliminated and how? Or Would you agree that promises made to poor children are rarely kept? Why do you think this happens in the incidents narrated in the text	Q5.Answer ANY ONE  of the following questions given below in about 12-150 words 4x1=4 A. What would be some of the reason for the migration of people from villages to cities? Or B What process conspire to keep the workers in the bangle industry of Firozabad in poverty?