CBSE Class 12 English Lost Spring Worksheet Set F

               Very Short Answer

Q.1)        Why do the rag-pickers not go back to their native places?

Q.2)        ‘Savita is a symbol of innocence and efficiency’. Comment.

Q.3)        In what way has rag-picking become ‘a fine art’?

Q.4)        Who is Mukesh? What is his dream?

Q.5)        Saheb began to work in a tea-stall. What change came over him?

               Short Answer

Q.6)        “But promises like mine abound in every corner of his bleak world.” What promise does the author recall? In what context was it made? Was it fulfilled?

Q.7)        Seemapuri is on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it metaphorically. What does the author mean by this?

Q.8)        What are most of the bangle-makers ignorant of? What would happen if law were enforced strictly?

Q.9)        Answer the following questions:

(1)        Describe Mukesh as an ambitious person.

(2)        Whom does Anees Jung name for the sorry plight of the bangle makers?

Q.10)      Where is Mukesh’s house located? What is he proud of?

               Long Answer

Q.11)      ‘Saheb is no longer his own master. Mukesh insists on being his own master.’ Discuss.

Q.12)     Child abuse is a very serious problem in our country. Children are forced by circumstances to work in various factories. Write an article, on the topic ‘Child Abuse’. Take ideas from the following lines:

            “None of them knows that it is illegal for children like him to work in the glass furnaces 1 with high temperature, In dingy cells without air and light; that the law, if enforced, could get him and all those 20,000 children out of the hot furnaces where they slog their daylight/hours, often      losing the brightness of their eyes.”

Q.13)      The paradoxes of the society that we live in are aptly featured in ‘Lost Spring’. Comment.

Q.14)      Why should be child labour be eliminated and how?

Q.15)      Justify the title of the story ‘Lost Spring’.

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