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Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 1

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This morning, Saheb is on his way to the milk booth. In his hand is a steel canister. ‘I now work in a tea stall down the road,’ he says, pointing in the distance.

Q. What change occurs in Saheb’s life?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 1
The change that occurs in Saheb's life is that he started working at a tea stall. He was paid 800 Rupees and all his meals were also taken care of but he had lost his freedom. The steel canister seemed heavier than the plastic bag he used to carry. He had to obey the owner of the tea stall and hence he was no longer his own master like he was at the rag-picking job. Hence we can conclude that though the change had some benefits, it was not a change for the better.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 2

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This morning, Saheb is on his way to the milk booth. In his hand is a steel canister. ‘I now work in a tea stall down the road,’ he says, pointing in the distance.

Q. What did he carry earlier in his hand?

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Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 3

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This morning, Saheb is on his way to the milk booth. In his hand is a steel canister. ‘I now work in a tea stall down the road,’ he says, pointing in the distance.

Q. How much is he paid for a month?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 3
The change that occurs in Saheb's life is that he started working at a tea stall. He was paid 800 Rupees and all his meals were also taken care of but he had lost his freedom.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 4

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This morning, Saheb is on his way to the milk booth. In his hand is a steel canister. ‘I now work in a tea stall down the road,’ he says, pointing in the distance.

Q. How does Saheb feel?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 4

Saheb feels bound and burdened. He holds a steel can which seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly on his young shoulder earlier, the dirty bag was his but now the can belongs to the owner of the tea shop. Saheb is no longer his own master. No, Saheb is not happy working at the tea-stall. He is no longer his own master. His face has lost the carefree look. The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry with ease earlier. He is even away from his dream and doesn't go to school which he wanted to do.

Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 5

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For one who has walked barefoot, even shoes with a hole is a dream come true. But the game he is watching so intently is out of his reach.

Q. Who is ‘he’ in the above lines?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 5
These lines were used by Saheb.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 6

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For one who has walked barefoot, even shoes with a hole is a dream come true. But the game he is watching so intently is out of his reach.

Q. What game was ‘he’ watching?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 6
One winter morning the writer saw Saheb standing by the fence of a club. He was watching a tennis game being played by two young men. Saheb liked the game but could not play it. He told the writer that he went inside the club when it would be closed.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 7

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For one who has walked barefoot, even shoes with a hole is a dream come true. But the game he is watching so intently is out of his reach.

Q. Whose shoes did he get?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 7
Those tennis shoes were of a rich boy who didn't want to wear them because of a hole in it. so, saheb took it because for him even a shoe with hole is a dream come true. he explained everything to the author so dat she would not suspect him as a thief.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 8

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For one who has walked barefoot, even shoes with a hole is a dream come true. But the game he is watching so intently is out of his reach.

Q. Why playing that game is out of his reach?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 8
Saheb is wearing discarded tennis shoes. One of them has a hole. For one who has walked barefoot, even shoes with a hole is a dream come true. But tennis, the game he is watching so intently, is out of his reach.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 9

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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.

Q. What is ‘it’ in the above lines?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 9
“Survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking.” The rag-pickers scrouge gold in the garbage dumps. For the children garbage is wrapped in wonder and for the elders, it is a means of survival..
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 10

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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.

Q. How is garbage ‘gold for them’?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 10
Garbage is gold to the ragpickers of Seemapuri because it provides them items which 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.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 11

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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.

Q. Who are ‘them’ here?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 11
Above extract explain about rag pickers.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 12

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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.

Q. Garbage has a different meaning for the rag–picker, for the children garbage is ________?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 12
For the children garbage has a different meaning from what it means for the adults. For the children it is wrapped in wonder, their eyes light-up when they find a rupee or a ten-rupee note in it. They search the garbage excitedly with the hope of finding something more. But for the elders it is a means of survival.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 13

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‘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,’ say a group of women in tattered saris when I asked them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers.

Q. Who are ‘we’ in the above lines?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 13
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.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 14

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‘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,’ say a group of women in tattered saris when I asked them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers.

Q. Why are they not willing to go back to their homeland?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 14
Saheb is looking for coins, rupee notes and any other useful objects in the garbage dumps. Saheb and his family have migrated to Seemapuri, a slum area on the outskirts of Delhi, looking for a source of living after they were uprooted from their native village in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 15

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‘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,’ say a group of women in tattered saris when I asked them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers.

Q. From where have they come?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 15
Saheb's parents belonged to Dhaka in Bangladesh, where they lived amidst green fields. They and the other ragpickers left their homes many years ago and migrated to India in search of a livelihood, as their homes and fields were destroyed in storms.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 16

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‘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,’ say a group of women in tattered saris when I asked them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers.

Q. Which word in the passage means ‘old and torn’?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 16
Old and torn means Tattered.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 17

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Travelling across the country I have seen children walking barefoot, in cities, on village roads. It is not lack of money, but a tradition to stay barefoot, is one explanation. I wonder if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty.

Q. Who is ‘I’ in the above extract?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 17
Here ‘I’ refers to Author himself.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 18

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Travelling across the country I have seen children walking barefoot, in cities, on village roads. It is not lack of money, but a tradition to stay barefoot, is one explanation. I wonder if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty.

Q. What explanation is given for people staying barefoot?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 18
They are devoid of sewage, drainage or running water. They live without an identity except a ration card for voting and buying grain. They remain barefoot and garbage to them is gold. The writer asks Saheb, a rag-picker for school.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 19

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Travelling across the country I have seen children walking barefoot, in cities, on village roads. It is not lack of money, but a tradition to stay barefoot, is one explanation. I wonder if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty.

Q. What has ‘I’ often seen?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 19
Throughout the country, the authoress has seen the rag-pickers roaming about in the streets barefoot. More than 10,000 children of Seemapuri are engaged in their task of survival. On asking about not wearing chappals some reply that it is a tradition to stay barefoot. It is not the lack of money. The authoress feels that it is an excuse to “explain away a perpetual state of poverty.”.
Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 20

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Travelling across the country I have seen children walking barefoot, in cities, on village roads. It is not lack of money, but a tradition to stay barefoot, is one explanation. I wonder if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty.

Q. What is the author ’s view for people staying barefoot?

Detailed Solution for Test: Lost Spring- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 20
One explanation offered by the author is that it is a tradition to stay barefoot. It is not a lack of money. He wonders if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty.
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