SECTION-C

This section has sub-sections V, VI, VII, VIII & IX. There are a total of 30 questions in the section. Attempt any 26 questions from section V - IX.
V. Read the extract given below to attempt the questions that follow:
Mukesh insists on being his own master. "I will be a motor mechanic", he announces.
'Do you know anything about cars ?' I ask. "I will learn to drive a car." he answers, looking straight into my eyes. His dream looms like à 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, welding 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, ...