Lost Spring Part 1

He is content to dream of cars. Who is ‘he’ being talked about?

• Mukesh
• Saheb
• Sahukar
• Politician

The sahukars, the middlemen, the policemen, the keepers of the law, the bureaucrats and the politicians. Together these people

• worked for the benefit or bangle makers
• imposed the baggage on the child that he cannot put down
• worked for the upliftment of women
• abolished child labour

Who will be hauled up by the police if they try to get organized?

• the old citizens
• the owners of the factories
• the group of young men
• Mukesh’s family

‘She has not enjoyed a full meal in her entire lifetime’. Who is ‘she’ in the given sentence?

• the elderly woman sitting close to Savita
• Mukesh’s sister-in-law
• Mukesh’s mother
• Mukesh’s grandmother

Savita, a young girl is seen by the author,

• stitching clothes
• washing clothes
• soldering pieces of glass
• embroidering a sheet

‘Can a god-given lineage ever be broken?’ These words were spoken by

• Mukesh
• Mukesh’s grandfather
• Mukesh’s grandmother
• the author

Mukesh’s father is a

• car-driver
• bangle-maker
• cracker-maker
• mechanic

Mukesh’s house is covered with

• stones
• bricks
• tiles
• thatch

The families of the bangle-makers live in

• comfortable environment
• big houses
• very small houses
• factories

What did Mukesh want to become, on growing up?

• a motor mechanic
• a shopkeeper
• a bangle maker
• a carpenter