laboursonline – MCQs, Mock Tests | NCERT Class 12 MCQ Questions for Class 12 English

Franz looked for opportunities to skip school to do what?

1. work on mills
2. go fishing
3. water the plants
4. collect birds eggs

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What was Franz banking on to enter the class as he was late?

1. M.Hamel’s teaching on the blackboard
2. commotion in the class
3. Hauser helping him sneak in
4. to quietly walk in when everyone was preoccupied with participles

✅ Correct Answer: 2

M. Hamel is introduced as a ruler-wielding teacher. This demonstrates that:

1. he is concerned.
2. he is adamant.
3. he is unfeeling.
4. he is a hard taskmaster.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Franz thinks- will they make them sing in German- even the pigeons? What could this mean?

1. German would use brutal force over everyone
2. harsh orders will be passed
3. when people are deprived of their essence even the surroundings are affected.
4. the Germans will rob France of its language.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What does M. Hamel’s motionless posture reflect?

1. the school is dismissed
2. sense of finality
3. changing order of life
4. feeling of nostalgia

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the moral that the Alphonse Daudet wants to bring out?

1. not to put off things that one can do that day
2. old order changed to new
3. one should accept everything that happens
4. teachers should be respected

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Why did Hamel blame himself?

1. not having taught them enough French
2. not being strict
3. giving students a holiday at times
4. not being responsible

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who sat on the back bench on the last lesson?

1. Franz
2. Prussians
3. the village people
4. The new teacher

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What was M. Hamel going to question Franz about?

1. participles
2. adjectives
3. old primer
4. Ba be bi bo bu

✅ Correct Answer: 1

For the last two years, where did all the bad news come from?

1. the Bulletin Board
2. Town Hall
3. school
4. M. Hamel’s House

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Don’t go so fast, you will get to your school in plenty of time means ___

1. getting late
2. very early
3. not early
4. early enough

✅ Correct Answer: 4

`Who is the author of The Last Lesson?

1. Jane Austen
2. Rabindra Nath Tagore
3. None
4. Alphonse Daudet

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Mukesh wants to learn to become a motor mechanic by

1. finding a tutor
2. going to a garage to learn
3. by reading books
4. by joining a school

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What bothers the author most about the bangle makers?

1. the stigma of poverty and caste
2. the affluence of the landlords
3. the behaviour of the factory owners
4. the labour laws

✅ Correct Answer: 1

One wonders if he has achieved what many have failed to achieve in their lifetime. He has a roof over his head”; these lines were said in reference to the condition of

1. the elderly woman’s old husband
2. Mukesh’s father
3. the bangle factory owner
4. Mukesh’s elder brother

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the objects below best serves as a symbol of an Indian woman’s `suhag’?

1. bindi
2. sindoor
3. bangles
4. henna-dyed hands

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Sunny-gold, paddy green, royal blue, pink, purple, every colour born out of the seven colours of the rainbow. What is this a reference to?

1. clothes
2. birds
3. bangles
4. bindis

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What was the profession of Mukesh’s father before he became a bangle-maker?

1. tailor
2. carpenter
3. plumber
4. Mason

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The frail woman in Mukesh’s house is his

1. mother
2. elder brother’s wife
3. wife
4. niece

✅ Correct Answer: 2

If laws were to be enforced, it would bring about change and relief in the lives of about

1. ten thousand children
2. twenty thousand children
3. hundred children
4. a thousand children

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Bangle industry flourishes in the town of

1. Ferozepur
2. Firozabad
3. Ferozgarh
4. Farukhabad

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Mukesh belonged to a family of

1. farmers
2. rag-pickers
3. bangle makers
4. motor mechanics

✅ Correct Answer: 3

One day, Saheb was seen by the author, watching some young men playing

1. cricket
2. tennis
3. hockey
4. soccer

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to the author, rag picking has become, over the years, a

1. profession
2. fine art
3. tradition
4. culture

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The rag pickers have no identity, but they have

1. permits
2. passports
3. ration cards
4. licenses

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The colony of ragpickers is situated in

1. the south of Delhi
2. Mongolpuri
3. Jehangirpuri
4. Seemapuri

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What did the man from Udipi pray for, when he was young?

1. a pair of trousers
2. a pair of shoes
3. a few friends
4. an opportunity to study in a school

✅ Correct Answer: 2

One explanation which the author gets about children choosing to remain barefoot is

1. they have no money
2. tradition
3. no matching pairs
4. like to wear only chappals

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Is your school ready? Who asked this question?

1. (a) Saheb’s mother
2. Saheb’s friends
3. the author
4. Saheb

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What were Saheb and his family looking for in Delhi?

1. dollars
2. rupees
3. pounds
4. gold

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Saheb’s home, before Delhi, was in

1. Bengal
2. Orissa
3. Dhaka
4. bihar

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why do you do this?’ This question was asked by the author to

1. the bangle sellers
2. Mahesh
3. Saheb
4. Saheb’s mother

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is Mukesh’s dream?

1. To be a doctor
2. To be a merchant
3. To be a rogue
4. To be a motor- mechanic

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What efforts can help Mukesh materialise his dream of becoming a car driver?

1. Hard work
2. Going to garage
3. Guidance of his owner
4. All these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What does the title ‘Lost Spring’ symbolise?

1. Lost blooming childhood
2. Autumn season
3. Lost money
4. Lost age

✅ Correct Answer: 1

How is Mukesh’s attitude different from that of his family?

1. Being daring, firm and clear
2. Being a fighter
3. Being a coward
4. Not clear

✅ Correct Answer: 1