NCERT Class IX English Moments Chapter 1 The Lost Child Short Questions and Answers

Short questions
1. What festival is being celebrated in the story?
Answer:Spring festival.
2. What does the child first want to buy?
Answer:A toy.
3. How do the parents react when the child asks for a toy?
Answer:They ignore him.
4. What does the child see in the mustard field?
Answer:Dragonflies.
5. What sweet does the child want?
Answer:Burfi.
6. Why doesn’t the child insist on the sweets?
Answer:He knows his parents will call him greedy.
7. What does the child want from the flower-seller?
Answer:A garland of gulmohur.
8. What music attracts the child?
Answer:The snake-charmer’s flute.
9. What does the child want to do at the roundabout?
Answer:Take a ride.
10. What happens when the child turns to ask his parents for a ride?
Answer:His parents are gone.
11. How does the child feel when he loses his parents?
Answer:Scared and upset.
12. Who helps the child after he gets lost?
Answer:A kind man.
13. What does the man offer the child first?
Answer:A ride on the roundabout.
14. Does the child accept the man’s offer of a balloon?
Answer:No.
15. What does the child want after getting lost?
Answer:His parents.
16. What is the child's reaction when offered sweets by the man?
Answer:He refuses.
17. What does the mustard field symbolize?
Answer:The beauty of nature.
18. What does the child cry out after losing his parents?
Answer:"Mother, Father!"
19. Why does the child refuse all the man’s offers?
Answer:He only wants his parents.
20. Who is the author of "The Lost Child"?
Answer:Mulk Raj Anand.