Short Questions
1. Who is the author of ‘The Lost Child’?
Answer: Mulk Raj Anand.
2.Where was the child going with his parents?
Answer: He was going to a fair.
3.What did the child want at the toy shop?
Answer: He wanted a toy.
4.Why did the child move on without buying anything?
Answer: He knew his parents would refuse.
5.What attracted the child in the mustard field?
Answer: Dragonflies and flowers.
6.What was the child’s favourite sweet?
Answer: Burfi.
7.What did the child want from the flower-seller?
Answer: A garland of gulmohur.
8.What did the child want from the balloon man?
Answer: He wanted to have all the colourful balloons.
9.Why did the child not listen to the snake-charmer’s music?
Answer: Because his parents had forbidden him.
10.At what point did the child realise he was lost?
Answer: When he turned and found his parents missing.
11.What happened when the child was lost?
Answer: He started crying for his parents.
12.Who helped the lost child?
Answer: A kind man from the crowd.
13.What did the man offer the child at the roundabout?
Answer: A ride on the horse.
14.Did the child accept any of the man’s offers?
Answer: No, he only wanted his parents.
15.What was the child crying for in the end?
Answer: He was crying for his mother and father.
Long Questions
1. Why was the child happy at the beginning of the story?
Answer: He was excited to visit the fair with his parents and see new things.
2.What did the child see on his way to the fair?
Answer: He saw toys, dragonflies, flowers, and people enjoying the spring.
3.How did the parents react when the child asked for things?
Answer: The father looked strict, but the mother tried to distract him gently.
4.What happened when the child reached the fair?
Answer: He got attracted by sweets, flowers, balloons, and the roundabout.
5.Why did the child lose his parents?
Answer: He got too busy watching the roundabout and lost sight of them.
6.How did the child react when he realised he was lost?
Answer: He panicked and began to cry loudly for his mother and father.
7.Who rescued the lost child and how?
Answer: A kind man lifted him from the crowd and tried to comfort him.
8.Why did the child lose interest in everything?
Answer: He only wanted his parents; nothing else could make him happy.
9.What does the story teach us?
Answer: It shows the deep love between children and parents and the importance of family.
10. How does Mulk Raj Anand create emotion in the story?
Answer: He uses simple language and touching scenes that show a child’s fear and innocence.
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