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    The document is a study guide for the story "Lost Spring" containing 11 multiple choice or short answer questions about the story. It asks the reader to answer questions about specific characters and events in the story, including Mukesh the bangle maker's son and his family's situation, the rag-pickers who live in Seemapuri slum, and the systems of poverty and lack of opportunity that trap generational workers in certain industries and professions.

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    The document is a study guide for the story "Lost Spring" containing 11 multiple choice or short answer questions about the story. It asks the reader to answer questions about specific characters and events in the story, including Mukesh the bangle maker's son and his family's situation, the rag-pickers who live in Seemapuri slum, and the systems of poverty and lack of opportunity that trap generational workers in certain industries and professions.

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    DPS GOMTINAGAR EXTN.

    LUCKNOW
    GRADE: XII
    SUBJECT: ENGLISH
    TOPIC: L2- LOST SPRING-STORIES OF STOLEN CHILDHOOD
    TEACHER: ANJALI DWIVEDI
    A. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words: (2 marks questions)
    1. What does the writer mean when she says, “Saheb is no longer his own master”?
    2. "Listening to them, I see two distinct worlds ...." In the context of Mukesh, the bangle
    maker's son, which two worlds is Anees Jung referring to?
    3. Why does Anees Jung say that the bangle makers are caught in a vicious circle?
    4. How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?
    5. What does the title ‘Lost Spring’ convey?
    6. What different meaning does garbage have for children and for elders?
    7. The rag-pickers have been living in Seemapuri for thirty years without an identity,
    without permits, but they have ration cards. Why?
    8. Children grow up in them becoming partners in survival.
    a. Which children are referred to here?
    b. How do they ‘become partners in survival’?
    9. ‘It is his karam, his destiny’.
    a. Who is the speaker?
    b. Who does ‘his’ refer to?
    c. What is their ‘karam?
    10. ‘They left their home looking for gold’. Who does ‘they’ and ‘gold’ refer to?
    11. Over the years it has acquired the proportions of a fine art. It here refers to_____
    B. Tick the correct option to answer the questions:
    1. The beauty of glass bangles contrasts with the misery of people who make them. This
    is an example of:
    Oxymoron b. metaphor c. paradox d. personification
    2. According to Anees Jung, the rag-pickers did not wear slippers because:
    a. It is not lack of money
    b. It is a tradition to remain barefoot
    c. Their parents did not provide footwear
    d. They lived in a perpetual state of poverty
    3. For the rag pickers of Seemapuri, food is more important than:
    (a) clothes
    (b) shoes
    (c) identity
    (d) shelter

    4. Saheb and his family left their homes in Dhaka because:


    (a) their village was flooded
    (b) of education
    (c) there was a deadly epidemic in the village
    (d) storms had swept away their fields and homes
    5. What excuse do the rag pickers give for not wearing slippers?
    (a) Mother didn’t bring them down from the shelf
    (b) No interest
    (c) not lack of money but a tradition
    (d) All of these

    6. What compels the workers in bangle industry of Firozabad to remain in poverty?


    (a) stigma of caste and ancestral profession
    (b) Karam theory and society
    (c) Middlemen and politicians
    (d) All of these
    7. According to the author what does garbage mean to the children?
    (a) Means of entertainment
    (b) Means of survival
    (c) Means of playing
    (d) It is wrapped in wonder
    8. What did the man from Udipi pray for, when he was young?
    (a) a pair of trousers
    (b) a pair of shoes
    (c) a few friends
    (d) an opportunity to study in a school
    9. “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:
    (a) the old woman’s husband
    (b) Mukesh’s father
    (c) the bangle factory owner
    (d) Mukesh’s elder brother
    1. ‘Together they have imposed the baggage on the child that he cannot put down.
    Before he is aware, he accepts it as naturally as his father. To do anything else
    would mean to dare. And daring is not part of his growing up’.
    1. Who are ‘they’ in the above lines?
    2. Who is the ‘child’ in reference?
    3. What does he accept as naturally as his father?
    4. Why can’t he dare to do anything else?

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