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(C) two
Q1. Read the following extracts and answer the (D) five
questions : (ii) Why do these people have ration cards?
“It takes longer to build a school.” I say, embarrassed (iii) What do you infer about their lifestyle from
at having made a promise that was not meant. But the phrase ‘pitch their tents’?
promises like mine abound in every corner of his (iv) In spite of the hardships, they are not willing
bleak world. After months of knowing him, I ask him to go back to their homeland
his name. ‘Saheb-e-Alam’, he announces. He does because__________.
not know what it means. If he knew its meaning – (v) The women had a/an __________ approach
lord of the universe – he would have a hard time towards life.
believing it. Unaware of what his name represents, (A) idealistic
he roams the streets with his friends, an army of bare (B) passive
feet boys who appear like the morning birds and (C) indifferent
disappear at noon. Over the months, I have come to (D) practical
recognise each of them. “Why aren’t you wearing (vi) What does the term ‘go to bed without an
chappals?” I ask one. “My mother did not bring them aching stomach’ indicate?
down from the shelf.” He answers simply.
“Even if she did he will throw them off,” adds another Q3. Read the following extracts and answer the
who is wearing shoes that do not match. questions :
Select the option from those given in brackets, to “Children grow up in them, becoming partners in
fill in the blank. survival. And survival in Seemapuri means
(i) The intention of the speaker in the first line of rag-picking. Through the years, it has acquired the
the extract is one of proportions of a fine art. Garbage to them is gold. It is
__________.(clarification/confusion) their daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is
a leaking roof. But for a child it is even more.”
(ii) What is implied by the expression ‘he would (i) Complete the sentence appropriately.
have a hard time believing it’. Children become partners in survival suggests
(A) Saheb is too innocent to believe everything. that ________.
(B) Saheb is living upto his name. (ii) Rag-picking has acquired the proportion of a
(C) Saheb’s living condition is contrary to the fine art means :
meaning of his name. (A) artistic bend of mind is required.
(D) Saheb is not used to anyone calling his name. (B) it has proportionately displaced art.
(C) it has become a highly skilful activity.
(iii) Select the correct option from those given in (D) it has discovered pieces of art.
brackets to fill in the blank:​ (iii) State whether the given statement is True or
“Promises like mine abound in every corner of False with reference to the extract.
his bleak world.” The above statement of the The children and their parents have left Dhaka to
speaker reveals the fact that people like Saheb live in Seemapuri.
are ____(deluded/empowered) by such promises. (iv) Why does the author say ‘survival in
(iv) State one reason for the boy was wearing Seemapuri means rag-picking’?
shoes that did not match. (v) What does the phrase “for a child it is even
(v) The speaker describes Saheb’s life as a ‘bleak more” reveal about the children’s dreams?
world’ because (vi) Which of the following headlines suggests
(A) he lives in a house without electricity. the central idea of the extract?
(B) his world is his friends. (A) Seemapuri, A Pot of Gold
(C) his life is devoid of hope. (B) Rag-picking – Different Perspectives
(D) he belongs to the world of illiterates. (C) Art in Delhi and in Seemapuri
(D) Saheb-e-Alam in Seemapuri
Q2. Read the following extracts and answer the
questions : Q4. Read the following extracts and answer the
They have lived here for more than thirty years questions :
without an identity, without permits but with ration “Why do you do this?” I ask Saheb whom I encounter
cards that get their names on voters’ lists and enable every morning scrounging for gold in the garbage
them to buy grain. Food is more important for survival dumps of my neighbourhood. Saheb left his home
than identity. “If at the end of the day we can feed our long ago. Set amidst the green fields of Dhaka, his
families and go to bed without an aching stomach, home is not even a distant memory. There were
we would rather live here than in the fields that gave many storms that swept away their fields and homes,
us no grain,” say a group of women in tattered saris his mother tells him. That’s why they left, looking for
when I asked them why they left their beautiful land gold in the big city where he now lives.
of green fields and rivers. Wherever they find food, “I have nothing else to do,” he mutters, looking away.
they pitch their tents. “Go to school,” I say glibly, realizing immediately how
(i) The ragpickers have been living there for hollow the advice must sound.
____________ decades. “There is no school in my neighbourhood. When they
(A) three build one, I will go.”
(i) Choose the correct option. (v) ‘Scrounging’ in the passage most nearly
The expression ‘scrounging for gold’ refers to means.
(A) searching for gold items. (a) digging
(B) looking for something that can fetch money. (b) searching
(C) rummaging the garbage. (c) flinging
(D) digging to find food to eat. (d) burying
(ii) The influence of nature in Saheb’s life was (vi) ‘There is hope for finding more’. Explain with
that it _______. reference to the above extract.
(A) brought prosperity
(B) yielded food for them Q6. Read the following extract and answer the
(C) gave them home questions that follow:
(D) brought disaster And in dark hutments, next to lines of flames of
(iii) Complete the sentence with an appropriate flickering oil lamps, sit boys and girls with their
word. fathers and mothers, welding pieces of coloured
Saheb’s conversation with the narrator draws glass into circles of bangles. Their eyes are more
_____ of readers towards Saheb. adjusted to the dark than to the light outside. That is
(iv) Explain one inference that can be drawn from why they often end up losing their eyesight before
the line “…… realizing how hollow the advice they become adults.
must sound”. (i) Complete the sentence with reference to the
(v) The expression ‘when they build one, I will go’ extract :
indicates Saheb’s _______ to go to school. Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to
(vi) State whether the following statement is the light outside because ____.
TRUE or FALSE. (ii) Which of the following would NOT be true?
‘… his home is not even a distant dream’ states (a) The hutments were shining and inviting.
that Saheb sees his home often in his dream. (b) The children’s lives were as bleak as their
Questions from the Chapter in 2023 Board Exams surrounding.
(c) There were no electricity connections.
Q5. Read the following extract and answer the (d) The boys and girls had got used to the dark.
questions that follow. (iii) The bangle workers lose their eyesight before
“I sometimes find a rupee, even a ten rupee note”, they became adults because
Saheb says, his eyes lighting up when you can find a (a) they already have poor eyesight.
silver coin in a heap of garbage, you don’t stop (b) they work in dim light.
scrounging, for there is hope of finding more. It (c) they are married in childhood.
seems that for children, garbage has a meaning (d) they are malnourished.
different from what it means to their parents. For the (iv) Which of the following most nearly means
children it is wrapped in wonder, for the elders it is a ‘adjusted’ in the context of the extract?
means of survival. (a) conditioned
One winter morning I see Saheb standing by the (b) favoured
fenced gate of the neighbourhood club, watching two (c) accepted
young men dressed in white, playing tennis. “I like (d) reconciled
the game”, he hums, content to watch it standing (v) ‘Flickering oil lamps’ suggests _____.
behind the fence. “I go inside when no one is around” (vi) What is the antonym from the extract of the
he admits. “The gate keeper lets me use the swing.” word ‘rarely’?
(i) Saheb found a rupee
(a) on the street
(b) in the garbage dump
(c) in Firozabad
(d) on the tennis court
(ii) Which emotion of Saheb is revealed in the
phrase ‘his eyes lighting up’?
(a) anxiety
(b) envy
(c) happiness
(d) greed
(iii) For the elders garbage is ____ and for
children it is ________.
(iv) On the basis of the extract, choose the
correct option with reference to I and II given
below :
1.​ Saheb watches the game from outside.
2.​ Saheb had lost the previous match.
(a) I is true but II is not
(b) II is true but I is not
(c) Both I and II are true
(d) Both I and II are untrue