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Oisb Cbse Grade12 Englishws Lostspring 2024-25

The document is a worksheet for grade 12 English core containing short answer questions and long answer questions about the story 'Lost Spring'. It asks students to answer questions about various topics in the story like why children in slums don't wear footwear, how working in glass furnaces can affect children, and why bangle makers in Firozabad lack initiative. It also contains reference to context questions about passages from the story.

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Oisb Cbse Grade12 Englishws Lostspring 2024-25

The document is a worksheet for grade 12 English core containing short answer questions and long answer questions about the story 'Lost Spring'. It asks students to answer questions about various topics in the story like why children in slums don't wear footwear, how working in glass furnaces can affect children, and why bangle makers in Firozabad lack initiative. It also contains reference to context questions about passages from the story.

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WORK SHEET

ACADEMIC SESSION 2024 – 2025


GRADE – 12 ENGLISH CORE
Chapter- Lost Spring
Student’s Name: Date:

Instructions –
 This section of paper carries 2 & 5 marks and is based on Analyzing and Evaluating the
topic.

Short Answer Questions (40-50 words each) (2x14=28 Marks)

PART I
1. What explanation does the author offer for the children not wearing the
footwear?
2. How is Saheb’s name full of irony?
3. Why do slums like Seemapuri mushroom around big cities?
4. Why does the author describe children of slums as partners in survival?
5. How do elders and children look at garbage differently?
6. Saheb wanted to be a master of his own destiny. Comment.
7. What change occurs in Saheb’s life? Is it a change for the better or the
worse? Give reason for your answer.
PART II

8. Describe the atmosphere in the glass furnaces. How can working there
affect the young children?
9. Firozabad is a neglected city. Explain.
10. How has being born in the caste of bangle makers become both a destiny
and a curse?
11. Why do bangle makers lack initiative and ability to dream?
12. Why are the people of Firozabad averse to the co-operative movement?
13. What two distinct worlds does Anees Jung speak of with respect to bangle
makers?
14. How is Mukesh different from his peers?
Long Answer Questions (120-150 words) (5x3=15 Marks)

1. Why is Mukesh’s dream of ‘learning to drive a car’ likened to a


mirage?
2. Justify the title of the story ‘Lost Spring’.
3. If we all take a pledge to listen to the voice of our conscience, the
vice of child labour and exploitation would be easily eradicated from
our society. Comment.
Reference to Context (1x14=14)
1. His dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets that fill his town
Firozabad, famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in
making bangles. It is the centre of India’s glass-blowing industry where families
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have spent generations working around furnaces, welding glass, making bangles
for all the women in the land it seems.

1. Mirage here means _____


2. Why every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles?
3. Why does the author say that “making bangles for all the women in the land it
seems”?
4. Find a synonym of fireplace.

2. “Why not organise yourselves into a cooperative?” I ask a group of young men
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 be hauled
up by the police, beaten and dragged to jail for doing something illegal,” they say.
There is no leader among them, no one who could help them see things
differently. Their fathers are as tired as they are.

1. Why will they be beaten by the police?


2. Hauled up means ________
3. They are tired of __________
4. Find a synonym of harsh.

3. My acquaintance with the barefoot ragpickers leads me to Seemapuri, a place


on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically. Those who live
here are squatters who came from Bangladesh back in 1971. Saheb’s family is
among them. Seemapuri was then a wilderness. It still is, but it is no longer
empty. In structures of mud, with roofs of tin and tarpaulin, devoid of sewage,
drainage or running water, live 10,000 ragpickers. They have lived here for more
than thirty years without an identity, without permits but with ration cards that get
their names on voters’ lists and enable them to buy grain.

1. “a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it” means ________
2. Find a synonym of outskirts
3. Which of the following best describes a squatter?
4. Why do they have ration cards only?
5. Find a synonym of without

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