NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Chapter 1 A Letter to the GOD

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Board	CBSE
Class	10
Book	NCERT
Subject	English (First Flight)
Chapter	1 A Letter to God
Category	NCERT Solution
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A Letter to God Class 10 Textual Questions and Answers

Oral Comprehension Check (Page 5)

Question- 1 What did Lencho hope for?
Answer- Lencho hoped for good rain for his crops.

Question-2 Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like gold coins?
Answer- He said this because his crop needs water to grow that will come in the form of rain that’s why the Lencho said raindrops are like gold coins.

Question-3 How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s field?
Answer- The rain changed to hailstorm. The Hail destroyed Lencho’s field.

Question-4 What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped?
Answer- Lencho felt broken because the hail destroyed all his field. Nothing was left in his field.

Oral Comprehension Check (Page 6)

Question-1 Who or what did lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Answer- Lencho has faith in god. He wrote a letter to god for 100 peseos.

Question-2 Who read the letter?
Answer- The Postmaster read the Lencho’s letter.

Question-3 what did the postmaster do than?
Answer- He helps lencho by giving him some money on behalf of god. He collected money from all the staffs and send him total 70 peseos.

Oral Comprehension Check (Page 7)

Question-1 Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Answer- No, Lencho was not surprised to find a letter for him money in it because he has a deep faith in god.

Question-2 What made him angry?
Answer- Lencho has requested 100 pesos from god but he got only 70 pesos so he thought that that money is stolen by the postman.

Thinking about the text (Page 7)

Question-1 Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell you this?
Answer- Lencho has complete faith in god. The sentences are- “God”, he wrote, “if you don’t help me, my family and I will go hungry this year”.
He wrote ‘To God’ on the envelope, put the letter inside and still troubled, went to town.
God could not have made a mistake, nor could he have denied Lencho what he had requested.

Question-2 Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter God?
Answer- The postmaster send money to Lencho because he has deep faith in god. he don’t want to broke Lencho’s emotion so he collect the money and give the money to lencho. He signed the letter god because He don’t want Lencho to know that the money was given by him.

Question-3 Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why or why not?
Answer- No, Lencho didn’t try to find out who had sent the money to him because he has deep faith in god. He knows that god will help him with this situation.

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 think that the 30 pesos was stolen by the postman. The irony in this situation that the postmans collect the money for him. Yet he looks them as a crooks.

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- Yes, there are still people like Lencho. He has deep faith in god. In real world people are greedy and naive but lencho was not like other he was different and a lovable guy.

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- These confilts are in the form of hailstrom that destroys lencho’s field completely. So he thinks that in this situation god will help him so he writes a letter to god for some money for his help. The other conflict was the lencho thought his 30 pesos are taken by the post officials.