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1) The document is a worksheet on the story "Lost Spring" from the English textbook for Class XII. 2) It contains 13 multiple choice questions about details and events from the story, followed by 7 short answer questions and 2 long answer questions requiring analysis and interpretation. 3) The questions examine themes in the story like the difficult lives of street children who scavenge garbage, the poverty faced by bangle makers in Firozabad, and the lost potential of children unable to pursue education due to their circumstances.

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Lost Spring Reading Comprehension PDF

1) The document is a worksheet on the story "Lost Spring" from the English textbook for Class XII. 2) It contains 13 multiple choice questions about details and events from the story, followed by 7 short answer questions and 2 long answer questions requiring analysis and interpretation. 3) The questions examine themes in the story like the difficult lives of street children who scavenge garbage, the poverty faced by bangle makers in Firozabad, and the lost potential of children unable to pursue education due to their circumstances.

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Class: XII Subject: English Roll No.

______________

Name: _________ Date: __________

Worksheet Code: Eng12/20-21/G/04 Topic: Lost Spring

Lost Spring

1. Answer with reference to the context :


1) “Go to school,” I say glibly, realising immediately how hollow the advice must sound.
a) Who is the speaker in these lines?
b) Who is he/she addressing?
c) Why would the advice sound hollow?

2) “But promises like mine abound in every corner of his bleak world.”
a) What promise is the narrator talking about?

b) Who is “he” and why is his world bleak?

c) Explain the meaning of the line in your own words.

3) Unaware of what his name represents, he roams the streets with his friends, an army of
barefoot boys who appear like the morning birds and disappear at noon.
a) What is Saheb’s full name and what does it mean?
b) How is this ironic?
c) Identify a figure of speech in the given line and write the corresponding phrase.

4) I remember a story a man from Udipi once told me. As a young boy he would go to school
past an old temple, where his father was a priest.
a) What did the man from Udupi do at the temple?
b) What was the result of his actions?
c) Why does the author bring this up?

5) Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art. Garbage to them is gold.
a) What has acquired the proportions of fine art?
b) Why is garbage like gold to them?
c) Identify a figure of speech in the second line.
d) How does garbage mean different things to children and their parents in Seemapuri?

6) Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art. Garbage to them is gold.
e) What has acquired the proportions of fine art?
f) Why is garbage like gold to them?
g) Identify a figure of speech in the second line.
h) How does garbage mean different things to children and their parents in Seemapuri?

7) This morning, Saheb is on his way to the milk booth. In his hand is a steel canister.
a) Why is Saheb carrying a steel canister?
b) Does he seem to enjoy his new job? Give reasons to support your answer.
Class: XII Subject: English Roll No. ______________

Name: _________ Date: __________

Worksheet Code: Eng12/20-21/G/04 Topic: Lost Spring

8) His dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets that fill his town...

a) Who is “he”?
b) Where does he live and what is the place well known for?
c) What dreams does he have?
d) How are his dreams unusual?

9) “Can a god-given lineage ever be broken?” she implies


a) Who is “she”?
b) What is the “god-given lineage”?
c) Why can it not be broken?

10) “Why not organise yourselves into a cooperative?”


a) Who is the speaker here?
b) Who is the speaker addressing?
c) Why have they not organised themselves into a cooperative?
d) What does this reveal about their industry?

11) Their fathers are as tired as they are. They talk endlessly in a spiral that moves from poverty
to apathy to greed and to injustice.
a) Who does “they” refer to?
b) Why are they all tired?
c) Mention the hazards of working in the bangle industry in Firozabad.

12) ‘Years of mind-numbing toil have killed all initiative and ability to dream.’
a) Who is the author speaking about in these lines?
b) Explain the meaning of ‘mind numbing’.
c) What makes the author think thus?
d) Find a word which means ‘​exhausting physical labour’.

13) ‘The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his
shoulder.’
a) Who is being referred to in these lines ?
b) What does the steel canister symbolise?
c) What does the plastic bag symbolise?
d) How has the transition from the plastic bag to steel canister affected ‘him’?

2. Answer the following questions in about 30 to 40 words (Write answers to any 7 )

1. What is Saheb’s full name? How is it ironic?


2. Why does the narrator say that the rag-pickers live in a place on the periphery of Delhi, yet
miles away from it?
3. How does garbage hold different meanings for adults and children?
Class: XII Subject: English Roll No. ______________

Name: _________ Date: __________

Worksheet Code: Eng12/20-21/G/04 Topic: Lost Spring

4. ‘The Steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his
shoulder’ What is the significance of this statement in relation to Saheb’s life?
5. ‘His dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of street that fill his town’ – What does the
narrator mean by this statement
6. What are the ‘two distinct worlds’ that the narrator seems to be talking about?
7. Describe the working conditions of the bangle factories at Firozabad?
8. What forces conspire to keep the workers in the bangle industry of Firozabad in poverty?
9. What is the significance of the line ‘Few airplanes fly over Firozabad’?

3. Answer on about 120- 150 words (write the answers to any 2)

1. What is the significance of the title ‘Lost Spring’?

2. What are the causes for the misery faced by the bangle makers of Firozabad?

3. Compare and contrast the characters of Saheb and Mukesh.

4. Do you think the lesson titled Lost Spring is a realistic portrayal of the life of street children?
Give examples from the lesson to support your answer.

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