“I will learn to drive a car,” he answers, looking straight into my eyes. His dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets that fill his town Firozabad, famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles. It is the centre of India’s glass-blowing industry where families have spent generations working around furnaces, wielding glass, making bangles for all the women in the land it seems. Mukesh’s family is among them. None of them know that it is illegal for children like him to work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light; that the law, if enforced, could get him and all those 20,000 children out of the hot furnaces where they slog their daylight hours, often losing the brightness of their eyes. Mukesh’s eyes beam as he volunteers to take me home, which he proudly says is being rebuilt. i. The simile ‘dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets’ indicates that his dream was a) a reality, yet seemed distant. b) lost in the sea of dust. c) illusory and indistinct. d) hanging in the dusty air. ii. ‘I will learn to drive a car,’ he answers, looking straight into my eyes. This sentence highlights Mukesh was 1. determined 2. fearless 3. hopeful 4. valiant 5. ambitious 6. stern a) 1 & 5 b) 2 & 4 c) 2 & 5 d) 3 & 6 iii. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE with reference to the extract? a) Children work in badly lit and poorly ventilated furnaces. b) The children are unaware that it is forbidden by law to work in the furnaces. c) Children toil in the furnaces for hours which affects their eyesight. d) Firozabad has emerged as a nascent producer of bangles in the country. iv. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles indicates that a) bangle making is the only industry that flourishes in Firozabad. b) the entire population of Firozabad is involved in bangle making. c) majority of the population in Firozabad is involved in bangle making. d) bangle making is the most loved occupation in Firozabad.