Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.
From the strong we get to know that workers who works in bangle industry don’t have eye gears, proper equipments which directly costs their lives they work in intemelly high temperature, with no ventilation room full of darkness in which sometime the dust causes their eyes for blindness and cuts, scratches, burns are quite common for them.
Is Saheb happy working at the tea-stall? Explain.
Would you agree that promises made to poor children are rarely kept? Why do you think this happens in the incidents narrated in the text?
How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?
Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.
What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come from?
What forces conspire to keep the workers in the bangle industry of Firozabad in poverty?
What could be some of the reasons for the migration of people from villages to cities?
How, in your opinion, can Mukesh realise his dream?
What explanations does the author offer for the children not wearing footwear?
What makes the city of Firozabad famous?
What was Franz expected to be prepared with for school that day?
What is the “misadventure” that William Douglas speaks about?
From where did the peddler get the idea of the world being a rattrap?
Strike out what is not true in the following.
a. Rajkumar Shukla was
(i) a sharecropper.
(ii) a politician.
(iii) delegate.
(iv) a landlord.
b. Rajkumar Shukla was
(i) poor.
(ii) physically strong.
(iii) illiterate.
What does the writer mean by ‘the fiery misery’ of those subjected to make-up’?
What are some of the positive views on interviews?
Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?
What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day?
What were the series of emotions and fears that Douglas experienced when he was thrown into the pool? What plans did he make to come to the surface?
Why was he amused by this idea?
Sophie’s dreams and disappointments are all in her mind.
List the places that Gandhi visited between his first meeting with Shukla and his arrival at Champaran.
Why was the Moral Rearmament Army welcomed at the Studios?
Did the peddler expect the kind of hospitality that he received from the crofter?
Does her father believe her story?
How does Sophie include her brother Geoff in her fantasy of her future?
How did the instructor “build a swimmer” out of Douglas?
Why do you think the servants thought Gandhi to be another peasant?
How did Douglas make sure that he conquered the old terror?
Why did Sophie wriggle when Geoff told her father that she had met Danny Casey?