1. The boy Saheb is seen sifting through garbage dumps in his neighborhood every morning looking for gold. He left his home in Dhaka due to storms that destroyed their fields and homes.
2. The narrator tells Saheb to go to school but realizes this is hollow advice as there is no school in his area. When the narrator jokingly offers to start a school, Saheb expresses interest. A few days later when Saheb asks if the school is ready, the narrator is embarrassed by the unintentional promise.
3. The passage describes Mukesh's family's living conditions - they live in a half-built shack and his sister-in-law cooks
1. The boy Saheb is seen sifting through garbage dumps in his neighborhood every morning looking for gold. He left his home in Dhaka due to storms that destroyed their fields and homes.
2. The narrator tells Saheb to go to school but realizes this is hollow advice as there is no school in his area. When the narrator jokingly offers to start a school, Saheb expresses interest. A few days later when Saheb asks if the school is ready, the narrator is embarrassed by the unintentional promise.
3. The passage describes Mukesh's family's living conditions - they live in a half-built shack and his sister-in-law cooks
1. The boy Saheb is seen sifting through garbage dumps in his neighborhood every morning looking for gold. He left his home in Dhaka due to storms that destroyed their fields and homes.
2. The narrator tells Saheb to go to school but realizes this is hollow advice as there is no school in his area. When the narrator jokingly offers to start a school, Saheb expresses interest. A few days later when Saheb asks if the school is ready, the narrator is embarrassed by the unintentional promise.
3. The passage describes Mukesh's family's living conditions - they live in a half-built shack and his sister-in-law cooks
1. The boy Saheb is seen sifting through garbage dumps in his neighborhood every morning looking for gold. He left his home in Dhaka due to storms that destroyed their fields and homes.
2. The narrator tells Saheb to go to school but realizes this is hollow advice as there is no school in his area. When the narrator jokingly offers to start a school, Saheb expresses interest. A few days later when Saheb asks if the school is ready, the narrator is embarrassed by the unintentional promise.
3. The passage describes Mukesh's family's living conditions - they live in a half-built shack and his sister-in-law cooks
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The Lost Spring XII ENGLISH I Extract Based Questions 1. “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. 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. 1. What is the boy doing? a. Cleaning utensils b. Sifting through the garbage c. making tea d. Playing with friends
2. ‘Gold’ is which figure of speech?
a. Rhyme b. Imagery c. metaphor d. Pun
3. Find a synonym of ‘in the middle of’
4. Which ‘big city’ do they live in?
a. Dhaka b. Delhi c. Mumbai d. Kolkata
2. “Go to school,” I say glibly, realising immediately how hollow the advice must sound. “There is no school in my neighbourhood. When they build one, I will go.” “If I start a school, will you come?” I ask, half-joking. “Yes,” he says, smiling broadly. A few days later I see him running up to me. “Is your school ready?” “It takes longer to build a school,” I say, embarrassed at having made a promise that was not meant. But promises like mine abound in every corner of his bleak world. 1. What does glibly mean? a. Spoken confidently but without careful thought b. Done with confidence and careful thought c. spoken in a serious manner d. Careless attitude
2. A few days later I see him running up to me. “Is your school ready?” This shows a. The boy wants to go to school b. The boy is showing her down c. the boy does not want to work and wants to escape to a school d. The boy likes her 3. Why is the narrator embarrassed? 4. Why does she say that promises like mine abound in every corner of his bleak world?
3. He stops at the door of one such house, bangs a wobbly iron door with his foot, and pushes it open. We enter a half-built shack. In one part of it, thatched with dead grass, is a firewood stove over which sits a large vessel of sizzling spinach leaves. On the ground, in large aluminium platters, are more chopped vegetables. A frail young woman is cooking the evening meal for the whole family. Through eyes filled with smoke she smiles. She is the wife of Mukesh’s elder brother. 1. Wobbly means ______ a. Strong b. wooden c. trembling d. All of these
2. Shack means ______
a. Shop b. Hut c. room d. None of these
3. Find a synonym of ‘weak’
4. Why are her eyes filled with smoke?
7. “Why not organise yourselves into a cooperative?” I ask a group of young men who have fallen into the vicious circle of middlemen who trapped their fathers and forefathers. “Even if we get organised, we are the ones who will be hauled up by the police, beaten and dragged to jail for doing something illegal,” they say. There is no leader among them, no one who could help them see things differently. Their fathers are as tired as they are. 1. Why will they be beaten by the police?
2. Hauled up means ________
a. To call to account for something b. to stop c. to criticize d. To teach
3. They are tired of __________
1. Making bangles 2. The vicious circle of middlemen 3. Each other a. 1, 2, 3 b. Only 1 c. Only 2 d. Only 3
4. Find a synonym of harsh
II Short Answer Questions
Question 1. Why don’t the younger ones of the bangle-makers do anything else? Question 2. What did garbage mean to the children of Seemapuri and to their parents? Question 3. What does Saheb look for in the garbage dumps?
Question 4. “It is his karam, his destiny”. What is Mukesh’s family’s attitude towards their situation? Question 5. How is the bangle industry of Firozabad a curse for the bangle-makers?
III Long Answer Questions
1.“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?
2.In spite of despair and disease pervading the lives of the slum children, they are not devoid of hope. How far do you agree?
