Lost Spring - questions and answers (9 years) || Lost Spring - Class 12 Stories of Stolen Childhood -Anees Jung
Lost Spring
Stories of Stolen Childhood
-Anees Jung.
H.S. EXAM. QUESTIONS ANSWERS -AHSEC
A. Very short type questions: Mark: 1
1.Who is the author of "Lost Spring"? [HS '12,'14]
Ans: Anees Jung.
2. What does Mukesh want to be? [HS '12,'15]
Ans: Mukesh's dreams to learn to drive a car and become a motor mechanic.
3. What is "Lost Spring' about? [HS '13]
Ans: The title Lost Spring conveys how millions of children in India lose out on living the "spring" of their lives, which is their childhood.* The best phase of life is lost in the hardships involved to earn their livelihood. (* for 1 mark)
4. Where was the original home of Saheb's family? [HS '13,'20]
Ans: Saheb's original home was in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
5. What does the author of "Lost Spring" find Saheb doing every morning? [HS '14, '15]
Ans: The author of "Lost Spring" finds Saheb scrounges for gold (garbage) in the garbage dumps.
6. What does Saheb look for in the garbage dumps? [HS '16,'22]
Ans: Saheb looks for the gold in the garbage dumps.
7. Where has Saheb come from? [HS '16]
Ans: Shaheb has come from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
8. What does the 'garbage' mean for the elders of Seemapuri? [HS '17]
Ans: The 'garbage' mean for the elders of Seemapuri is of survival or gold.* It is their daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is a leaking roof. But for them, it is even more.
9. Where does Mukesh live? [HS '17, 22]
Ans: Mukesh lives in Firozabad.
10. Why have Saheb and his family migrated to Seemapuri? [HS '18]
Ans: Saheb and his family migrate to Seemapuri because once many storms swept away their field and homes.
11. Where does Saheb originally hail from? [H.S.'19]
Ans: Saheb originally hails from Dhaka, Bangladesh
12. What is the actual name of Saheb? What does signify? [H.S.'19]
Ans: The actual name of Saheb is 'Saheb - e- Alam'. It signifies the lord of the universe.
13. What does Mukesh want to become?[H.S.'20]
Ans: Mukesh's dreams to learn to drive a car and become a motor mechanic.
B.Short type questions:Marks: 2/3
1. Is Saheb happy working at the tea stall? Why?[HS '12, '14]
Ans: Saheb doesn't happy at working at the tea stall. His face has lost the carefree look. Because Saheb is no longer his own master. The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag for him and his situation.
2. What is the significance of bangles in an Indian Society? [HS '12,'17]
Ans: The bangles mean the sanctity in a society. It symbolises an Indian woman's suhaag, auspicious in marriage. It changes a girl to become a bride. It is the significance with a bride that draped with a red veil, hands dyed red with henna, and red bangles rolled onto her wrists.
3. 'Garbage to them is gold'. Why does the author say so about the ragpickers? [HS '13]
Ans: Garbage is gold to the ragpickers of Seemapuri it provides them items that can be sold for cash, which can buy them food and is a means of survival. Moreover, it is gold also because the ragpickers can find stray coins and currency notes in it.
4. What is the irony inherent in Saheb's full name? [HS '13, '16]
Ans: Saheb's full name is "Saheb - e - Alam". The irony inherent is that he doesn't know what it means. If he knew its meaning as Lord of the universe then he would have a hard time believing it for his living status.
5. What does Saheb look for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come from? [HS '14]
Ans: Saheb looks for gold in the garbage dumps.
He is a ragpicker of Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi. He comes from Dhaka, Bangladesh (1971).
6. What explanation does the author of 'Los Spring' offer for the children, not wearing footwear? [HS '15]
Ans: According to the author, one explanation for this habit of remaining barefoot is that it is a tradition among the poor children of this country. However, the author quickly mentions that calling it a tradition could be just a means of justification for utter destitution.
7. What is Firozabad famous for and why? [HS '15]
Ans: Firozabad is famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles. Firozabad is the centre of India's glass-blowing industry.
8. Why do the young inhabitants of Firozaba end up losing their eyesight? [HS' 16]
Ans: The young inhabitants of Firozabad work in the dark hutments with flames of flickering oil lamps and welding pieces of coloured glass into circles of bangles. Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside. So, they often lose their eyesight before they became adults.
9. What are the two different worlds Firozabad? [H.S.'18]
Ans: The two worlds burden a young man in Farozabad include one of the family, caught in the web of poverty, burdened by the stigma of a cast in which they are born; the other vicious circle of the sahukars, the middlemen, the policeman, the keepers of law, the bureaucrats and the politicians.
10. What was the promise made by Anees Jung to Saheb?[HS' 18]
Ans: Anees Jung promised Saheb that she would build a school for him and the other ragpickers. She asked Saheb if she would start a school and then he would come or not.
11. What is the actual name of Saheb? What does signify? [H.S.'19]
Ans: The actual name of Saheb is 'Saheb - e- Alam'. It signifies the lord of the universe.
12. Give a brief description of Seemapuri. [HS '20]
Ans:
SEEMAPURI:
Seemapuri is a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles from it, metaphorical. Those who live here are squatters who came from Bangladesh in 1971. The people of seemapuri live in very bad conditions. The survival in seemapuri is rag-picking. Food is more important for survival than identity in Seemapuri. Garbage to them is gold and it is their daily bread, a roof over their heads even if it is a leaking roof.
13. Was Saheb happy with his job at the tea stall?[HS '20,'22]
Ans: Saheb doesn't happy at working at the tea stall. His face has lost the carefree look. Because Saheb is no longer his own master. The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag for him and his situation.
14. Why, according to writer, the advice she gave to school seems hollow? [H.S.'23]
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15. What explanation does the author offer for the children not wearing footwear? [H.S.'23]
Ans: According to the author, one explanation for this habit of remaining barefoot is that it is a tradition among the poor children of this country. However, the author quickly mentions that calling it a tradition could be just a means of justification for utter destitution.
C. Essay Type Questions : Marks: 5
1. Describe the miserable plight of the people o Firozabad. [HS '12, '14, '15,'17]
Ans: Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles. More than 20000 children also engage on it. None of them no that it is illegal. The children work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light. They slog their daylight hours and often losing the brightness of their eyes.
They live in stinking lanes choked with garbage where they remain in hoves with crumbling walls, wobbly doors and no windows. They live in crowded with families of humans and animals coexisting in a primaeval state. They are born in the cast of bangle makers. They have seen nothing except bangles, in the house, in the yard, in every other house, every other yard, and every street in Firozabad.
Their eyes are more adjacent to the dark than to the outside. Hence, they often end up losing their eyesight before they become adults. They have not enjoyed even one full meal in their lifetime.
2. Describe the bangle makers of Firozabad. How does the vicious circle of the Sahukars, the middlemen never allow them to come out of their poverty? [HS '18, 22]
Ans: Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles. More than 20000 children also engage on it. None of them no that it is illegal. The children work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light. They slog their daylight hours and often losing the brightness of their eyes. They live in stinking lanes choked with garbage where they remain in hoves with crumbling walls, wobbly doors and no windows. They live in crowded with families of humans and animals coexisting in a primaeval state.
The vicious circle of the sahukars and the middlemen never allow them to come out of poverty. They trap their fathers and forefathers. If the young men try to get organized then they are arrested by the police, beaten and dragged to jail for doing something illegal. There is no leader among them and no one can help them, see things differently. So, they live endlessly in poverty and are oppressed by greedy people at injustice. For these reasons, little has moved with time in Firozabad.
Thus the Sahukars, the middlemen never allow them to come out of their poverty.
3. Write briefly on the hazard of working ill the glass bangles industry. [HS '20]
Ans: Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles. More than 20000 children also engage on it. None of them no that it is illegal. The children work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light as well as lack of proper ventilation. They slog their daylight hours and often losing the brightness of their eyes. Their eyes are more adjacent to the dark than to the light outside. So, they often end up losing their eyesight before they become adults.
Glass blowing, welding and soldering pieces of glass are all health hazards. Even the dust from polishing the glass of bangles adversely affects the eye and even adults go blind. The surroundings, prevailing conditions and the type of job involved all prove risky to the health of the workers. The impoverished workers in the glass bangles industry toil in potentially hazardous working conditions while welding. Even burns and cuts are quite (completely) common. The workers are quite prone to ailments such as lung cancer.
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