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    The document contains extracts from the story "Lost Spring" by Anees Jung. The first extract is about ragpickers in Seemapuri, Delhi who pick garbage to survive. It describes how ragpicking has become their way of life and profession. The second extract is about a boy named Mukesh who dreams of becoming a motor mechanic, but his reality is that he lives in Firozabad where most families make glass bangles for generations in furnaces under difficult conditions.

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    Lost Spring Extract

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    The document contains extracts from the story "Lost Spring" by Anees Jung. The first extract is about ragpickers in Seemapuri, Delhi who pick garbage to survive. It describes how ragpicking has become their way of life and profession. The second extract is about a boy named Mukesh who dreams of becoming a motor mechanic, but his reality is that he lives in Firozabad where most families make glass bangles for generations in furnaces under difficult conditions.

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    The document contains extracts from the story "Lost Spring" by Anees Jung. The first extract is about ragpickers in Seemapuri, Delhi who pick garbage to survive. It describes how ragpicking has become their way of life and profession. The second extract is about a boy named Mukesh who dreams of becoming a motor mechanic, but his reality is that he lives in Firozabad where most families make glass bangles for generations in furnaces under difficult conditions.

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    Lost Spring Extract

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    Dharani A
    The document contains extracts from the story "Lost Spring" by Anees Jung. The first extract is about ragpickers in Seemapuri, Delhi who pick garbage to survive. It describes how ragpicking has become their way of life and profession. The second extract is about a boy named Mukesh who dreams of becoming a motor mechanic, but his reality is that he lives in Firozabad where most families make glass bangles for generations in furnaces under difficult conditions.

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    LOST SPRING

    Extract based questions:


    1. Wherever they find food, they pitch their tents that become transit
    homes. Children grow up in them, becoming partners in survival. And
    survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. Through the years, it has
    acquired the proportions of a fine art. Garbage to them is gold. It is their
    daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is a leaking roof. But for a
    child it is even more.
    1. Who are being referred to as 'they' in the given extract?
    (a) Mukesh's family
    (b) Ragpickers
    (c) Bangle makers
    (d) Saheb's family

    2. The ragpickers have no identity, no permits, but __________ enable them to


    buy grain the option that appropriately fits in the given blank.
    (a) voter id card
    (b) aadhaar card
    (c) ration cards
    (d) passport

    3. Who is the author of the story from which the extract has been taken?
    (a) Louis Fischer
    (b) Anees Jung
    (c) Asokamitran
    (d) A.R. Barton

    4. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE with reference to the


    extract?
    (a) Seemapuri is situated at the periphery of Delhi.
    (b) Ragpicking has gradually acquired the proportions of a fine art.
    (c) Squatters who came from Bangladesh have been living in Seemapuri since
    1971 without permits.
    (d) For the children, ragpicking is the only profession that brings them
    immense joy.
    Answers:
    1. (b)
    2. (c)
    3. (b)
    4. (d)
    2. 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 have spent generations working around furnaces,
    welding glass, making bangles for all the women in the land it seems.
    1. Whose dream is being talked about in this extract?
    (a) Saheb's
    (b) Mukesh's
    (c) Savita's
    (d) Anees Jung's

    2. Which figure of speech is employed in the phrase "his dream looms like a
    mirage amidst the dust of streets".
    (a) Metaphor
    (b) Hyperbola
    (c) Apostrophe
    (d) Simile

    3. Choose the statement that is NOT TRUE about Firozabad.


    (a) Majority of the population in Firozabad is involved in bangle making.
    (b) Firozabad is the centre of India's glass blowing industry.
    (c) It is legal for children to work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures.
    (d) Children toil in the furnaces for hours, in dingy cells which affects their
    eyesight.

    4. Why did the narrator refer to his dream as a 'mirage"?


    (a) It is just an illusion.
    (b) His reality is different from his far-fetched dream of becoming a motor
    mechanic.
    (c) It's an unrealistic hope that cannot be achieved.
    (d) Both (b) and (c)
    Answers:
    1. (b)
    2.(d)
    3. (c)
    4. (d)

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