Board Exams will be start from 20 February. for your preparation we write here Class 12 English Chapter – 2 Lost Spring Question Answers in this post.
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Class 12 English Chapter – 2 : Short Answer type Questions
Question 1. Why did saheb’s family migrate to India?
Answer : Saheb’s family lived in Dhaka. There were many storms that swept away their fields and homes. So they left Dhaka for Delhi to earn their livelihood.
Question 2. Why did Anees jung ask saheb about the school? What was its impact on saheb?
Answer : Anees jung wanted to know the intention of saheb regarding studies. At the offer of Anees jung. Saheb immediately got ready to join the school while she offered him non-seriously.
Question 3. Why did saheb and other ragpickers not wear chappals?
Answer : Saheb and other ragpickers did not wear chappals because wandering barefoot was their traditional. They did not like to wear chappals. They excused that their mothers did not give then from the self.
Question 4. How many ragpickers used to live in Seemapuri, Delhi? How did they settle there?
Answer : In Seemapuri, Delhi more than 10,000 ragpickers used to live. They came from Bangladesh in 1971. They were refuges.
Question 5. What was the meaning of garbage for children? What did they fine in it?
Answer : For children, garbage was wrapped in wonder. They sometimes find a rupee not in the garbage. They wanted to find more. So they did not stop searching.
Question 6. Why did saheb join the job at milk booth? What was he paid for his service?
Answer : Saheb was very poor. So he joined the job at milk booth. He was paid eight hundred rupees for his service.
Question 7. Who was mukesh? Where did he belong and what was his ambition?
Answer : Mukesh was a young boy. He belonged to the bangle making family. He belonged to Firozabad. His ambition was different from his family. He wanted to become a Motor Mechanic.
Question 8. “It is his karam his destiny.” Who said this and why?
Answer : The grandmother of Mukesh said it. She said it because she had watched her husband go blind with the dust from polishing the glass of bangles. She said that a God given lineage can never be broken.
Question 9. What does a bangle signify?
Answer : It signifies an indian woman’s suhaag, auspiciousness in marriage. Every married Indian woman feels proud in rolling on the bangles on her wrists.
Question 10. Why do the bangle makers not organise themselves into a co-operative?
Answer : The bangle-makers don’t organise themselves into a co-operative because if they do so, they will be hauled up by the police, beaten and dragged to Jail for doing something illegal, they say. And there is no leader among them who can think differently.
Class 12 English Chapter – 2 : Long Answer type Questions
Question 1. Who was saheb? What was the plight that compelled him to wonder in the streets of Delhi for ragpickers.
Answer : Saheb was a young boy. He belonged to the family of ragpickers. He used to wonder in the streets of Delhi with his friends. They were refuges. They had came from Dhaka, Bangladesh. The storm had destroyed their green fields and homes in Dhaka. Their economic condition was very poor. They were so poor that they could not go to school. Their parents were depend on ragpicking only for their livelihood. They were anable to bear anyother expense expect food. Their poverty compelled saheb. Saheb and other like him to wonder in the streets of Delhi for ragpicking.
Question 2. Who was Mukesh? What did he want to do in his life and what did he not want to follow?
Answer : Mukesh was a young boy. He belonged to the family of bangles making. He lived in Firozabad. His whole family was involved in only bangle making since last many generations. So no member of such family could not think of any other work naturally. Bangle making was their trade. Mukesh himself had to do the same work because of family tradition but he did not want to follow that tradition. Actually he wanted to become a Motor Mechanic. So he had to take a great pain. He had to go against his family tradition and members. He had to take the trainning without supported. He had to go very for from his house for learning.
When Anees jung asked him about his aim, he replied for Motor Mechanic. He replied that he wanted to become a Motor Mechanic.
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