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And survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art. Garbage to them is gold. It is their daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is a leaking roof. But for a child it is even more. “I sometimes find a rupee, even a ten-rupee note,” Saheb says, his eyes lighting up. When you can find a silver coin in a heap of garbage, you don’t stop scrounging, for there is hope of finding more. It seems that for children, garbage has a meaning different from what it means to their parents. For the children it is wrapped in wonder, for the elders it is a means of survival. i. “I sometimes find a rupee, even a ten- rupee in a heap of garbage,” which term describes Saheb’s state of mind most accurately a) Optimistic and keep searching for in greed b) Confident and just searches for his happiness c) Becomes happy and tries to find more wonders from the garbage d) Keeps searching the silver coin ii. Choose the statement which is NOT TRUE about the rag-pickers in Seemapuri a) Children are equally involved in rag picking as their parents b) The rag-pickers settle down in a place permanently c) Rag picking has accomplished itself as a skill and form of art d) Rag-pickers lives in unsteady shanties in the outskirts of Delhi iii. Garbage to the rag pickers is a) moneyb) daily bread, a roof over their heads c) gold d) silver iv. What makes the narrator calls rag picking a fine art? a) For it take brain to pick ragb) For it take skills to pick rag c) For it takes acumen to pick ragsd) All of these

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i. c) Becomes happy and tries to find more wonders from the garbage

ii. b) The rag-pickers settle down in a place permanently

iii. b) daily bread, a roof over their heads

iv. d) All of these



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