This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Common Subjects > English Flamingo > Class 12 English (Flamingo) Chapter 2 Lost Spring – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 English (Flamingo) Chapter 2 Lost Spring Quiz 4 (52 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This story is an excerpt from which book of the author? A) Lost Spring-Stories of stolen childhood. B) The Song of India. C) Breaking the Silence. D) Unveiling India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lost Spring-Stories of stolen childhood. 2. What is ironical about Saheb's name? A) He is his own boss. B) He has no qualities of a saheb. C) His name means lord of the universe but he is just a ragpicker. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His name means lord of the universe but he is just a ragpicker. 3. The word perpetual means ..... A) Ceasing. B) Constant. C) Transient. D) Broken. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Constant. 4. How much does Saheb earn working at the tea stall? A) 700 rs. B) 500 rs. C) 600 rs. D) 800 rs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 800 rs. 5. Find out the poetic device in the sentence, " The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag that Dia would carry so lightly over her shoulders." A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Contrast. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. The squatters in Seemapuri arrived as refugees from Bangladesh in A) 1965. B) 1971. C) 1986. D) 1982. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1971. 7. Why did the rich boy give the tennis shoes to Saheb? A) A. he hated his shoes. B) B. there was a hole in one of them. C) C. Saheb bought them for him. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. there was a hole in one of them. 8. Savita, a young girl is seen by the author, A) Stitching clothes. B) Embroidering a sheet. C) Soldering pieces of glass. D) Washing clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soldering pieces of glass. 9. What is Mukesh's dream? A) Teacher. B) Pilot. C) Motor Mechanic. D) Police Officer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motor Mechanic. 10. Who wanted to become a motor mechanic? A) Rakesh. B) Salim. C) Saheb. D) Mukesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mukesh. 11. Who speaks the following line in this story? "Can a God-given lineage ever be broken" . A) Mukesh's wife. B) Anees Jung. C) Mukesh's grandmother. D) Saheb's mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mukesh's grandmother. 12. Which figure of speech is used in the line, "Garbage to them is gold." ? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Sibilance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 13. What does the author mean when she says, "The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulder." ? A) Saheb enjoyed carrying plastic bags. B) Saheb has lost his freedom and hence the burden. C) Children should carry plastic bags than heavier steel canisters. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saheb has lost his freedom and hence the burden. 14. WHY DID SAHEB AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO DELHI A) BECAUSE THE STORM HAD SWEPT AWAY THEIR FIELDS AND HOMES. B) THE VILLAGE WAS FLOODED. C) DUE TO EPIDEMIC. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BECAUSE THE STORM HAD SWEPT AWAY THEIR FIELDS AND HOMES. 15. What is the full name of Saheb? A) Saheb-e-Akbar. B) Saheb-e-Alam. C) Saheb-e-Akthar. D) Saheb-e-Allah. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saheb-e-Alam. 16. Garbage to Saheb and other rag pickers means ..... to them? A) Luck. B) Silver. C) Lottery. D) Gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gold. 17. What did Mukesh want to become, on growing up? A) A bangle maker. B) A shopkeeper. C) A motor mechanic. D) A carpenter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A motor mechanic. 18. 'Can a god-given lineage ever be broken?' These words were spoken by A) Mukesh. B) Mukesh's grandfather. C) Mukesh's grandmother. D) The author. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mukesh's grandmother. 19. What is the theme of Lost Spring? A) Child Labour. B) Poverty. C) Vicious System in Society. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. Lost Spring is an account of ..... ? A) Fiction. B) Fact. C) Fact and Fiction. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fact. 21. What makes city of Firozabad famous? A) Ragpicking. B) Pot Making. C) Bangle making. D) Child Labour. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bangle making. 22. What are the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry, as experienced by Akhil? A) Miserable life. B) Impaired vision. C) Poor health. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 23. Choose the statement that is NOT TRUE about ragpickers in Seemapuri. A) Children are equally involved in rag picking as their parents. B) The ragpickers settle down in a place permanently. C) Rag picking has accomplished itself as a skill and form of art. D) Ragpickers live in unsteady shanties on the outskirts of Delhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The ragpickers settle down in a place permanently. 24. What does the title 'Lost Spring' symbolise in Myra's story of her childhood? A) Autumn season. B) Lost blooming childhood. C) Lost age. D) Lost money. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lost blooming childhood. 25. Mukesh wants to learn to become a motor mechanic by A) By reading books. B) By joining a school. C) Finding a tutor. D) Going to a garage to learn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Going to a garage to learn. 26. For Sahib, food is more important than A) Home. B) Identity. C) Clothes. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Identity. 27. Firozabad is famous for bangle making. Choose the incorrect pair of cities they are famous for. A) Varanasi-Silk saris. B) Kolkata-Brass pots. C) Ludhiana-Sports goods. D) Kanpur-Leather work. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kolkata-Brass pots. 28. Neha belonged to the family of A) Tailor. B) Motor mechanics. C) Pot makers. D) Bangle makers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bangle makers. 29. What does Mukesh aim to become when he grows up? A) Driver. B) Motor mechanic. C) Pilot. D) Bangle Maker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motor mechanic. 30. What excuse do the rag pickers give for not wearing chappals? A) Mothers don't give. B) No interest. C) A tradition. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 31. Who is the speaker of these lines, "There is no school in my neighbourhood. When they build one, I will go." ? A) Anees Jung. B) Saheb. C) Mukesh. D) Mukesh'sg grandmother. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saheb. 32. Sahib told the narrator, he didn't look happy as he had started working at a tea stall because A) He got over busy. B) He got only 800 rupees. C) He had lost his freedom. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He had lost his freedom. 33. Mukesh's father is a A) Bangle-maker. B) Mechanic. C) Car-driver. D) Cracker-maker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bangle-maker. 34. What compels the workers in bangle industry of Firozabad to poverty? A) Cast and ancestral profession. B) Karam theory and society. C) Bureaucrats and politicians. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 35. Why did Saheb's family leave their home in Bangladesh and settle in Seemapuri? A) Because of religious riots. B) Because of political apathy towards their community. C) Because they had lost their fields and homes in storms and the land was not productive. D) Because they wanted to fulfill their dreams in the big city. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because they had lost their fields and homes in storms and the land was not productive. 36. Who is the speaker of this- "I will be a motormechanic." ? A) Saheb. B) Mukesh's father. C) Mukesh. D) Mukesh's brother. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mukesh. 37. Find out the poetic device in the sentence, "Anika, a student from the outskirts of Delhi yet a mile away from it, metaphorically." A) Allusion. B) Paradox. C) Hyperbole. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 38. What does the writer try to depict in the lesson 'Lost Spring" as experienced by Advait? A) Lost freedom. B) Lost adolescence. C) Lost spring season. D) Lost childhood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lost childhood. 39. "Seemapuri a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it metaphorically." What is the tone of the writer? A) Mocking. B) Happy. C) Angry. D) Sad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mocking. 40. Saheb-e-Alam and his family moved to India in search of A) Gold. B) Better livelihood. C) Their relatives. D) Sheep and cattle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Better livelihood. 41. Why Does the steel canister seem heavier than the plastic bag? A) The bag was his. B) The canister belongs to the shop keeper. C) Saheb is no longer his own master. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 42. "The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulders." Identify the literary device used in the sentence. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Contrast. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contrast. 43. What does the author analyze in the story? A) Rich people. B) Garbage. C) Poor children and their exploitation. D) Her works. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poor children and their exploitation. 44. Saheb did not like to work in the tea-stall because A) He hated the steel canister. B) He was getting only Z 800. C) He was no longer his own master. D) He had to carry heavy bags now. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was no longer his own master. 45. What does 'Saheb-e-Alam' mean in the context of Vanya's cultural studies class? A) Queen of the universe. B) Lord of the universe. C) Princess of the universe. D) Prince of the universe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord of the universe. 46. To which country Saheb belongs to? A) Dehradun. B) Dhaka. C) Delhi. D) Doha. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dhaka. 47. Where are the ragpickers settled now? A) Firozabad. B) Gaziabad. C) Seemapuri. D) Dhaka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seemapuri. 48. What forces Neha and her friends to live a life of exploitation? A) Extreme Poverty. B) Parents. C) Peers. D) Greed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extreme Poverty. 49. Ragpicking for them meant ..... A) Time pass. B) Entertainment. C) Cleaning. D) Survival. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Survival. 50. Find out the poetic device in the sentence, "Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet mile away from it, metaphorically." A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Antithesis/irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis/irony. 51. From this chapter, it is evident that the author has an attitude of A) Bewilderment. B) Apathy. C) Empathy. D) Sympathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sympathy. 52. What was the former name of Bangladesh? A) 36 Paragana. B) West Bengal. C) East Pakistan. D) North Bangladesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) East Pakistan. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesCommon Subjects QuizzesClass 12 QuizzesClass 12 English (Flamingo) Chapter 2 Lost Spring Quiz 1Class 12 English (Flamingo) Chapter 2 Lost Spring Quiz 2Class 12 English (Flamingo) Chapter 2 Lost Spring Quiz 3Class 12 English (Flamingo) Chapter 1 The Last Lesson QuizClass 12 English (Flamingo) Chapter 3 Deep Water QuizClass 12 English (Flamingo) Chapter 4 The Rattrap QuizClass 12 English (Flamingo) Chapter 5 Indigo QuizClass 12 English (Flamingo) Chapter 6 Poets And Pancakes Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books