MULTIPLE CHOICE TYPE QUESTIONS

FLAMINGO –LOST SPRING (PROSE)

SL NO QUESTION ANSWER
1 What does the writer try to depict in the lesson ‘Lost Spring”? B. Lost childhood
A. Lost adolescence
B. Lost childhood
C. Lost freedom
D. Lost spring season
2 Where have Saheb’s parents come from? a. Bangladesh
a. Bangladesh
b. Nepal
c. Bhutan
d. India
3 Who says this: “I have nothing else to do”? c. Saheb
a. Mukesh
b. Zitkala-Sa
c. Saheb
d. Franz
4 What does Mukesh want to become? b. Motor mechanic
a. Pilot
b. Motor mechanic
c. Bangle maker
d. Ragpicker
5 Where has Saheb started working? c. Tea stall
a. At a restaurant
b. Milk dairy
c. Tea stall
d. Shoe factory
6 “I will learn to drive a car,” he answers, looking straight into my eyes. a. Determined
What trait of Mukesh is exhibited in the above sentence?
a. Determined
b. Confused
c. Hesitant
d. Curious
7 What does ‘Saheb-e-Alam’ mean? c. Lord of the universe
a. Prince of the universe
b. Princess of the universe
 c. Lord of the universe
d. Queen of the universe
8 What two distinct worlds does the author see in the lives of the d. Poor people – influential people
bangle makers?
a. Policemen – bureaucrats
b. Sahukars – policemen
c. Middlemen – poor people
d. Poor people – influential people
9 What is the probable reason for children remaining barefoot? d. Perpetual state of poverty
a. Lack of money
b. A tradition to remain barefoot
c. Physical illness
d. Perpetual state of poverty
10 “I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the bangles she helps make.” b. Auspiciousness in marriage
The underlined phrase symbolises:
a. Richness
b. Auspiciousness in marriage
c. Making bangles is a good job
d. The job provides good profit
11 “As her hands move mechanically, like the tongs of a machine, I a. Simile
wonder if I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the banglesshe helps
make.” Identify the literary device used in the sentence.
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Contrast
d. Alliteration
12 “ The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would c. Contrast
carry so lightly over his shoulders.” Identify the literary device used
in the sentence.
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Contrast
d. Alliteration
13 For the children, it is wrapped in wonder, for the elder it is a means d. Items valuable for them
of survival.” What do the parents expect from their children to bring
from the garbage dumps?
a. Left over food
b. Money
 c. Silver coins
d. Items valuable for them
14 “It is karam, his destiny”’ says Mukesh’s grandmother who has d. Fatalist ( Someone who holds specific beliefs
watched her own husband go blind with the dust from polishing the about life, destiny & the future)
glass of bangles. What character trait of the grandmother is shown?
a. Religious
b. Atheist
c. Superstitious
d. Fatalist
15 “Seemapuri a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it a. Mocking
metaphorically.” What is the tone of the writer?
a. Mocking
b. Angry
c. Sad
d. Happy

REFERENCE TO CONTEXT TYPE QUESTIONS

FLAMINGO - LOST SPRING(PROSE)

SL NO QUESTION ANSWER
1 After months of knowing him, I ask him his name. “ Saheb-e- Alam”, he
announces.He does not know what it means. If he knew its meaning-
lord of the universe- he would have hard time believing it. Unaware of
what his name represents, he roams the streets with his friends, an
army of barefoot boys who appear like morning birds and disappear at
noon. Over the months, I have come to recognise each of them.

a. Name the lesson and its writer. a. Lost Spring, Anees Jung
b. What does ‘Saheb-e-Alam’ mean ? b. Lord of the universe
c. What is the irony in Saheb’s name? c. his actual status is paradoxical to what his name means
d. What does Saheb do? d. rag picking
2 “I now work in a tea-stall down the road”,he says ,pointing in the
distance. “I am paid 800 rupees and all my meals.” Does he like the
job? I ask. His face ,I see ,has lost the carefree look. The steel canister
seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his
shoulder. The bag was his. The canister belongs to the man who owns
the tea shop,Saheb is no longer his own master.

a. Who is “I” in “I ask”? a. Anees Jung

b. What work has Saheb now taken? b. At a tea stall
c. Why is the steel canister heavier than the plastic bag c. While plastic bag meant freedom and Joy, canister
metaphorically too? symbolized burden
d. What do you mean by “Saheb is no longer his own master”? d. He no longer has control over his own fate
3 “ I will learn to drive a car”, he answers ,looking straight into my
eyes.His dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets that fill
his town Firozabad, famous for its bangles.
a. Mukesh
a. Who is “I” in the extract? b. Determination and confidence
b. What does “looking straight into my eyes” imply? c. False appearance
c. What does the word “mirage” mean? d. Bangles
d. What is Firozabad famous for?
4 “Why not organise yourselves into a cooperative?” I ask a group of
youngmen who have fallen into the vicious circle of middlemen who
trapped their fathers and forefathers. “Even if we get organised , we
are the ones who will b hauled up by the police,beaten and dragged to
jail for doing something illegal,” they say. a. to organize into cooperative
b. young bangle makers
a. What advice does the writer give? c. wicked/ cruel
b. Whom is the writer speaking to? d. hauled, beaten and dragged to jail for doing something illegal
.c What does the word ‘vicious’ mean?
d. How would the listeners in the extract be treated?

5 “ Listening to them , I see two distinct worlds- one of the family,

caught in a web of poverty, burdened by the stigma of caste in which
they are born; the other a vicious circle of the sahukars, the
middlemen, the policemen,the keepers of law, the bureaucrats and
the politicians. Together they have imposed the baggage on the child
that he cannot put down.
 a. Which are the two different worlds that the author sees? a. Poverty and influential people
b. What do you mean by the word ‘stigma’ ? b. Sign of disgrace
c. Who comprises the vicious circle? c. Sahukars, Middlemen, policemen, law keepers, bureaucrats
d. What is it that the child cannot put down a. The baggage of poverty imposed on him
6 “If at the end of the day we can feed our families and go to bed
without an aching stomach, we would rather live here than in the
fields that gave us no grain.”

a. To whom are the above lines spoken and where? a. To the author Anees Jung at Seemapuri
b. Why does the speaker prefer to live here? b. Availability of food and work
c. Why did the speaker leave their native place? c. Their village was swept by storms and there was no food for
d. What is the chief profession of the children who live here? them
d. Ragpicking
7 “I like the game,” he hums, content to watch it standing behind the
fence. “I go inside when no one is around”,he admits .” The
gatekeeper lets me use the swing.”
a. Identify the speaker and to whom the above lines are spoken? a. Saheb speaking to the author
b. Which game is the speaker talking about? b. Tennis
c. What kind of shoes is the speaker wearing? c. White shoes with a hole in one of them
d. What opinion does the listener hold about the game related to d. White shoes are within his reach but the game is out of his
the speaker? reach

8 In his small murmur there is an embarrassment that has not yet turned
into regret.
a) Whose ‘small mumur’ is being talked about here? a) Mukesh
b) What has been asked by the speaker which has not yet turned b) If he gets an opportunity to fly an aeroplane
into regret? c) Ambitious, determined
c) What character –trait is shown of the person talked? d) To become a motor mechanic
d) What is his ambition?
9 They talk endlessly in a spiral that moves from poverty to apathy to
greed and to injustice. Listening to them I see two distinct worlds.
a) Who are ’they’ and ‘I’ in the above extract? a) Community of banglemakers, the author
b) To which community do ‘they belong to? b) Banglemakers
c) Which two distinct worlds are being talked about by ‘I’? c) Stigma of caste and monopoly of middlemen
d) Who belongs to this community-Saheb or Mukesh? d) Mukesh

10 “I now work in a tea stall down the road.”

a. Who is ‘I’ in the above line and who is the listener?
b. What income and other benefits does ‘I’ get at the tea stall?
c. Is ‘I’ happy while working at the tea stall? If not, why?
d. What according to the listener,has ‘I’ lost while working at the
tea stall?
a. Mukesh , the author-Aneesjung
b. Rupees eight hundred per month and free meals
c. No, he has to work at the command of his master and is no
longer free.
d. He has lost his carefree look and is no more the master of his
own destiny.