A letter to god question answer, Class 10 English by kjv Expert Teachers
A LETTER TO GOD
Class 10 English Chapter 1 A Letter to God
Multiple Choice Questions & Answers
a)Lencho’s house was situated-
(i) in a city
(ii) in a valley
(iii) on the crest of a low hill.
(iv) on beach
Ans. (iii) On the crest of a low hill.
b)What covered the Lencho’s field after hail-
(i) salt
(iii) ice
(ii) hailstones
(iv) none of above
Ans. (ii) hailstones.
c)The word ‘amiable’ means-
(i) fat
(ii) friendly
(iii) holy man
(iv) serious
Ans. (ii) Friendly.
d)What the Frozen Pearls are compared with –
(i) pearls
(ii) salt
(iii) hailstone
(iv) None of above
Ans. (iii) Hailstone.
Oral comprehension check – 2
a)Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Ans: Lencho had faith in God. He wrote a letter to God.
b)Who read the letter?
Ans: The postmaster read the letter.
c)What did the postmaster do then?
Ans: The PostMaster did not want to break Lencho’s faith. So, he collected money from his employees and gave a part of his salary and sent it to Lencho with a signature God.
Oral Comprehension Check
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Question 1.What did Lencho hope for?
Answer:Lencho hoped for a good rain as it was much needed for a good harvest.
Question 2.Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?
Answer:Lencho compared the raindrops with new coins because they were promising him a good harvest resulting in more prosperity.
Question 3.How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?
Answer:The rain changed into hailstones as a strong wind began to blow and huge hailstones began to fall alongwith the rain. All the crops in Lencho’s field got destroyed because of the hailstones.
A letter to God Question Answer
Oral comprehension check – 2
a)Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Ans: Lencho had faith in God. He wrote a letter to God.
b)Who read the letter?
Ans: The postmaster read the letter.
c)What did the postmaster do then?
Ans: The PostMaster did not want to break Lencho’s faith. He collected money from his employees and gave a part of his salary and sent it to Lencho with a signature God.
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Question 5.Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Answer:Lencho had firm faith in God. He believed ‘ that God sees everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience and help everyone in one’s problems. He wrote a letter to God demanding him a hundred pesos to sow his field again.
Question 6.Who read the letter?
Answer:Postmaster read the letter.
Q7: What was Lenchos reaction after the hail stopped?
Answer: Lencho was filled with grief after the hail stopped as everything was ruined and there was nothing that he could feed his family with. He could see a black future for him and his family.
Question 7. What did the postmaster do after reading a letter?
Answer: The postmaster laughed when he read Lencho’s letter but soon he became serious and was moved by the writer’s faith in God. He didn’t want to shake Lencho’s faith. So, he decided to collect ,money and send it to Lencho on behalf of God.
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Question 8. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Answer: Lencho was not surprised to find a letter with money from God as he believed that God will help him.
Question 9. What made Lencho angry?
Answer:There were only seventy pesos in the envelope whereas Lencho had demanded a hundred pesos. The difference in the amount made him angry.
Thinking about the Text (Page 7,8)
Question 1.Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell you this?
Answer:Lencho has complete faith in God as he is instructed that God knows everything and helps us in our problems. There are few sentences which show this
*But in the hearts of all who lived in that solitary house in the middle of the valley, there was a single hope help from God.
*All through the night, Lencho thought only of his one hope: the help of God, whose eyes, as he had been instructed, see everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience.
*“God”, he wrote, “if you don’t help me, my family and I will go hungry this year”.
Question 2. Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter God?
Answer: The postmaster sends money to Lencho in order to keep Lencho’s faith in God alive.When postmaster reads the letter of Lencho to God, he becomes serious and does not want to shake his faith and decides to answer the letter. He gathers money with the help of his post office employees and friends on behalf of God and signs the letter ‘God’ so that Lencho’s faith does not get shaken
Question 3.Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why or why not?
Answer: Lencho did not try to find out who had sent the money to him because he never suspected the presence of God and had complete faith in God. He could not believe that it could be – anybody else other than God who would send him the money.His faith in God was so strong that he believed that God had sent money to him for his help in his problem.
Question 4.Who does Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony in the situation? (Remember that the irony of a situation is an unexpected aspect of it. An ironic situation is strange or amusing because it is the opposite of what is expected).
Answer:Lencho thinks that the post office employees have taken the rest of the money as he had demanded a hundred pesos from God and in the letter there was only seventy pesos and God cannot make such a mistake. So, he assumes that postoffice employes have stolen the money.
The irony in this situation is that Lencho suspects those people who helped him in his problem and tried to keep his faith alive in God.
Question 5.Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a person would you say he is? You may select appropriate words from the box to answer the question.
Greedy
Naive
Stupid
Ungrateful
Selfish
Comical
Unquestioning
Answer:It is almost impossible to find a person like Lencho as he is an unquestioning and naive kind of person. He is not stupid if he doesn’t know who has sent him money or a letter will reach God without any address. It is Lencho’s faith in God. In real world, people are selfish and greedy and Lencho is totally lovable and different.
Question 6.There are two kinds of conflict in the story between humans and nature and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
Answer: Conflict between Humans and Nature: The conflict between humans and nature is illustrated by the destruction of Lencho’s crop by the hailstorm as Lencho was expecting a good rain to have good harvest as that was the only hope he had for his earning. He worked so hard to feed his family, but nature turned violent and destroyed everything.
Conflict between Humans and Humans: The story also illustrated another conflict, between humans themselves as the postmaster alongwith his friends and staff sent Lencho money that Lencho demanded from God although they didn’t know Lencho. Lencho blamed them for taking away some amount of money. He called them “a bunch of crook”. This shows that man does not have faith in other man, thereby giving rise to this conflict.
Class 10 English Chapter 1 A Letter to God
Some important questions:
Question 1:Why was Lencho angry when he received the letter?
Answer: When Lencho received the letter, he opened the envelope. He at once became angry about counting the amount in it. There were only seventy pesos in the envelope, whereas he had asked for one hundred.
Question 2:Where was Lencho’s house located? Why did he sit seeing the sky?
Answer: Lencho’s house was situated on the crest of a low hill in the valley. The whole day he sat seeing the sky because he knew that his fields needed downpour or at least a shower and he was waiting to see the signs of rain.
Question 3:What were Lencho’s feelings when he found the letter with money in it? What did he do after opening the letter?
Answer: In the beginning, Lencho was very happy and satisfied to receive the letter. But when he counted the money and found it less, he became very angry. He wrote another letter to God, demanding thirty more pesos.
Question 4:What did Lencho write in his second letter?
Answer: In his second letter to God Lencho wrote to send him the remaining amount, but not through the mail as he felt that the employees of the post office were a bunch of crooks.
Question 5:How did Lencho’s hope change to despair?
Answer: Lencho was waiting for a shower of rain that his field needed. But his hope for good rain vanished when the wind changed into a hailstorm. It destroyed everything. So, Lencho’s hope changed to despair as his family would face starvation.
Question 6:What did the postmaster need to answer the letter? How did he collect it? How did Lencho react to the help?
Answer: The postmaster needed something more than ink and paper to answer the letter. He needed 100 pesos. He gave up a part of his salary and asked all other employees to help. Even friends were made to contribute for a cause of charity. Thus, he managed to collect 70 pesos. Lencho wasn’t surprised to receive the letter. But he was angry to receive 70 pesos instead of 100. He didn’t doubt God, such was his confidence. So he wrote another letter to God asking him to send the rest of the money. He warned him not to send it through the post office because those people were a ‘bunch of crooks’.
Question 8:How did the hailstorm shatter Lencho’s hope and dreams?
Answer: The rain that was welcomed by Lencho, all of sudden, changed into hailstorm. It rained for an hour. The whole corn field was turned white due to snow. It was totally destroyed. There was not a leaf left on the trees. The hail destroyed every thing. Lencho’s hope changed into despair and badly shattered his dreams of better future. It left him helpless and starving for the remaining year.
Question 9:The Post Master represents the people who still believe in helping others. Mention those values of the Post Master which you would like to emulate. Write it in about 80-100 words.
Answer: The postmaster represents the people who still believe in helping others. To keep Lencho’s faith in God alive, the postmaster co-operated with his employees and collected the amount. He had love and empathy towards Lencho knowing his situation. He was compassionate and even did not let Lencho know that they were helping
him. He sent the amount to Lencho in the name of God. In a nutshell, the postmaster possesed values like helping others, loving nature and compassionate.
Question 10:How did Lencho and his family react to the calamity?
Answer: They were filled with sorrow but they had faith in God.
Question 11:What was the only ‘One hope’ Lencho had?
Answer: His only one hope was help from God.
Question 12: Why did Lencho become angry when he counted the money?
Answer: Lencho became angry when he counted the money because the money was not hundred pesos which he had demanded. It was only 70 pesos. Lencho had firm faith in God. Moreover, he knew that God could not make a mistake or deny his request.
Question 13:How did the postmaster help Lencho?
Answer: The postmaster collected money from the post-office employees and sent the money-order to Lencho in God’s name to keep his faith.
Question 14: Lencho addresses the post office employees as a ‘bunch of crooks’, why? Give reasons in support of your answer.
Answer: The hailstones ruined Lencho’s crop and left Lencho helpless. So he thought of writing a letter to God to help him with his destructed crop. Lencho requested God to send hundred pesos. The postmaster sent him 70 pesos. Lencho became angry when he counted the money. He thought that 30 pesos were taken by the post office employees. He warned God to send thirty pesos more and beware of those employees who were a bunch of Crooks.
Question 15:How did postmaster react seeing Lencho’s letter?
Answer: The postmaster laughed heartily on seeing Lencho’s letter.
Thinking about Language (Page 8,9,10,11)
Question 1. A violent tropical storm in which strong winds move in a circle c__.
Answer:cyclone
Question 2. An extremely strong wind _ a _.
Answer:gale
Question 3. A violent tropical storm with very strong wind _ p _.
Answer:typhoon
Question 4. A violent storm whose centre is a cloud in the shape of a funneln.
Answer:tornado
Question 5.A violent storm with very strong winds, especially in the Western Atlantic Ocean _ r_.
Answer:Hurricane
Question 6. A very strong wind that moves very fast in a spinning movement and causes a lot of damage l.
Answer:whirlwind
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