AHSEC| CLASS 12| ENGLISH| CHAPTER - 2| LOST SPRING| SOLVED QUESTIONS FOR 1 MARK EACH| H.S. 2ND YEAR

 

AHSEC| CLASS 12| ENGLISH| CHAPTER - 2| LOST SPRING| SOLVED QUESTIONS FOR 1 MARK EACH| H.S. 2ND YEAR

LOST SPRING

Solved questions for 1 mark each:

(A) VERY SHORT ANSWER

1. Who is the author of 'Lost Spring'?

Ans: Anees Jung is the author of 'Lost Spring'.

2. What is 'Lost Spring' about?

Ans: 'Lost Spring' is about the plight of poverty-stricken children in India.

3. Which is the original text from which the passage is an excerpt?

Ans: This is an excerpt from the prose work 'Lost Spring Stories of Childhood Stolen' by Anees Jung.

4. Who is Saheb?

Ans: Saheb was a barefoot rag picker.

5. Whom does the author meet on the road every day?

Ans: The author encountered Saheb every morning on the road.

6. What does that person do every day?

Ans: That person was Saheb who used to search the garbage heap every day for sleeping.

7. Where is the original home of this person (Saheb)?

Ans: The original home of this person was in Bangladesh.

8. Why have Saheb and his family migrated to Seemapuri?   Exam paper - 2018

Ans: Saheb and his family have migrated to Seemapuri as their house and farm were washed away in several storms.

9. What do you see in the garbage heap sir?

Ans: Saheb discovered gold in the garbage dump.

10. What is the full name of Saheb?

Ans: Saheb's full name is Saheb-e-Alam.

11. What is the meaning of Saheb's full name?

Ans: The full name of Saheb is "Saheb-o-Alam" which means 'Lord of the Universe'.

12. Who do you see while standing at the gate of the neighborhood club?

Ans: One morning, standing at the fenced gate of the neighborhood club, Saheb was watching two young men dressed in white playing tennis.

13. What is Saheb wearing?

Ans: Saheb was wearing old tennis shoes, one of which had a hole in it.

14. Where is Seemapuri?

Ans: Seemapuri is a place on the outskirts of Delhi.

15. Who is Mukesh?

Ans: Mukesh is a young worker in the bangle making industry of Firozabad.

16. Where does Mukesh stay?     Exam paper - 2017

Ans: Mukesh lives with his family in a half-built shanty in a bangle-making slum in Firozabad.

17. What is his dream?

Ans: Mukesh's dream is to become a motor mechanic one day.

18. Who is Savita?

Ans: Savita is the sister-in-law of Mukesh, the wife of his elder brother.

19. Why does Mukesh take pride in taking the author to his home?

Ans: Mukesh was proud to take the author to his house as it had been renovated.

20. Who is in charge of Mukesh's house?

Ans: Savita, the daughter-in-law of the house, though not much in age, is in charge of Mukesh's family.

22. Where is Dhaka? why is it important?

Ans: 'Dhaka' is in Bangladesh. It is significant because it is the capital of Bangladesh.

23. Give another expression for 'glibly'. Make sentences with 'glibly'.

Ans: Another expression for "glibly" is casually. She answered all the questions brilliantly and felt it in the end.

24. 'But the abundance of promises like mine made a splash in every corner'.

(i) Why is there a lot of promises in Saheb's world?

Ans: Sahib is a poor rag picker. People make promises to them but rarely have the means to keep them. His promises to a poor person like Saheb are not sincere. So, in every corner of Saheb's bleak world, promises abound like a writer.

(ii) Why is his world dark?

Ans: His world is dark because being poor he could not afford the education. So, he is bound to work as a rag picker to earn for his family.

25. Who is called the 'bird of the morning'? Why?

Ans: Saheb and other barefoot scavengers are described as "morning birds" because they appear like birds in the morning and disappear in the afternoon.

26. Who lived in Seemapuri?

Ans: Saheb and his family lived in Seemapuri along with about ten thousand rag pickers.

27. What does 'garbage' mean to the children of Seemapuri?

Ans: For the children of "Seemapuri" the garbage meant a wonderful discovery where they would sometimes find a coin or a ten rupee note.

28. What does 'garbage' mean to the elders of Seemapuri?     Exam paper - 2017

Ans: For the elders of Seemapuri, 'garbage' means the means of living. It is their livelihood, a roof over their heads.

29. What is another word for 'scrounging'?

Ans: Scrounging: Hunting about/looking for.

30. Why isn't Saheb worried about the shoes he gets to wear once?

Ans: At one time the shoes Saheb got to wear were the thrown away shoes of some rich boy who refused to wear one of them because of a hole in it, but Saheb did not care. This is because he walks barefoot and shoes with holes are a dream come true for him.

31. What is beyond the reach of Saheb?

Ans: Saheb was fond of playing tennis. But playing this game was beyond Saheb's reach.

32. What is Mukesh's father's 'Karam' according to his grandmother?

Ans: According to Mukesh's grandmother, bangle making is the 'Karam' of Mukesh's father as he was born in the caste of bangle makers.

33. English equivalents of 'de' and 'Karam'.

Ans: Karam: Fate

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