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NCERT Class 10 English : A Letter To God

 

 

A Letter To God - Short Questions, Mark - 2 or 3

 

61. " We'll all go hungry this year". Why did Lencho say so? 

• Lencho said so because the hailstorm had left no corn at all for him to feed the family. 

 

62. " Don't be so upset, even though this seems like a total loss." What is 'this loss' that Lencho talks of? 

• 'This loss' that Lencho talks of is loss of his crops caused by hailstorm. 

 

63. " Don't be so upset, even though this seems like a total loss. Remember, no one dies of hunger". Who is the speaker here? 

• Lencho is the speaker here. 

 

64. " Don't be so upset, even though this seems like a total loss. Remember, no one dies of hunger". Why did Lencho say so? 

• Lencho said so to console his family. 

 

65. What does God's eyes see, according to Lencho? 

OR 

Q. Whose eyes see everything, even what is deep in one's conscience? 

• According to Lencho, God's eyes see everything, even what is deep in one's conscience. 

 

66. How did Lencho work in the field? 

OR 

Q. Who worked like an animal in the field? 

• Lencho worked like an animal in the field. 

67. "Lencho was an ox of man". What does the author mean to say by this statement? 

OR 

Q. How was Lencho an 'ox of man'? 

OR 

Q. What does 'ox of man' mean here? 

OR 

Q. What do you mean by an 'ox of man'? 

OR 

Q. What does author mean by ' an ox of man'? 

• By this statement, the author tries to mean that Lencho was a hard-working farmer who worked like the animal, viz. ox in his field. 

68. When did Lencho begin to write his first letter to God? 

• The following Sunday, at daybreak, Lencho began to write his first letter to God. 

 

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69. What strange action did Lencho take? 

OR 

Q. What strange action did Lencho do? 

• Lencho did the strange action of writing a letter to God. 

 

70. What address did Lencho write on the envelope? 

OR 

Q. What did Lencho write on the envelope? 

• On the envelope, Lencho wrote, "To God". 

 

71. What was the peculiarity about Lencho's letter? 

OR 

Q. What was the peculiar thing about Lencho's letter? 

OR 

Q. What was the strange thing about Lencho's letter? 

• The peculiarity about Lencho's letter was that it was addressed to none but God. 

 

72. Where did Lencho drop the letter? 

• Lencho dropped the letter into the mailbox. 

 

73. Why did Lencho write a letter to God? 

OR 

Q. What made Lencho to write a letter to God? 

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Q. What did Lencho do for help when his crops were destroyed? 

OR 

Q. What circumstance forced Lencho to write a letter to God? 

• Lencho wrote a letter to God, asking for a hundred pesos when his crops were destroyed. 

74. What did Lencho ask God to do in his letter? 

• Lencho asked God to help him by sending a hundred pesos. 

 

75. How did Lencho appeal to God? 

• Lencho wrote a letter to God, appealing for a hundred pesos. 

 

76. How much money did Lencho need? 

• Lencho needed a hundred pesos. 

77. How much money did Lencho demand from God? 

• Lencho demanded one hundred pesos from God. 

78. Who did Lencho write a letter to? 

• Lencho wrote a letter to God . 

 

79. Did Lencho's letter reach God? 

• No, Lencho's letter did not reach God. 

 

80. Why did Lencho's letter not reach God? 

OR 

Why, do you think,did Lencho's letter not reach God? 

• Lencho's letter did not reach God because God is an abstract existence having no proper worldly address. 

 

81. What did Lencho decide to do after his crops got destroyed ? 

OR 

Q. What did Lencho do after his the hailstorm had destroyed his crops? 

• After his crops got destroyed, Lencho decided to write a letter to God. 

82. Who found Lencho's letter? 

• The postman found Lencho's letter. 

 

83. What did Lencho expect in reply to his letter? 

• Lencho expected a hundred pesos in reply to his letter. 

84. Why did Lencho need a hundred pesos? 

• In order to sow his field again and to live until the crop came, Lencho needed a hundred pesos. 

85. Who handed the letter to Lencho? 

• It was the postmaster who handed the letter to Lencho. 

86. "One of the employees, who was a postman and also helped at the post office, went to his boss laughing heartily..." Who is ' boss' here? 

OR 

Q. Who does the postman call/ address as 'boss'? 

• The postmaster is the 'boss' here. 

87. "One of the employees, who was a postman and also helped at the post office, went to his boss laughing heartily and showed him the letter to God". Why did the postman laugh heartily? 

OR 

Q. Why did the postman laugh heartily while showed his boss the letter to God? 

• On seeing Lencho's letter to God, the postman went to his boss laughing heartily because he had never seen that address in his career. 

88. How much money did Lencho ask/ request God for? 

• Lencho asked/ requested God for a hundred pesos. 

89. How did Lencho send the letter? 

• Lencho sent the letter through mail. 

 

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90. Why did the postmaster break out laughing? 

OR 

Q. Why did the postmaster burst out laughing after seeing letter? 

• On seeing a letter addressed to God, the postmaster was shocked and broke out laughing. 

 

91." The postmaster broke out laughing, but almost immediately he turned serious". Why? 

OR 

Q. Why did the postmaster become serious? 

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Q. Immediately after reading the letter, the postmaster turned serious. Why? 

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Q. Why did the postmaster turn serious immediately after reading Lencho's letter? 

• On realising Lencho's firm faith in God, the postmaster became serious. 

 

92. What a faith! I wish I had faith of the man who wrote this letter". Who is speaker here? 

• The postmaster is the speaker here. 

 

93. " What a faith! I wish I had the faith .... " What is 'this faith' that the postmaster talks of? 

OR 

Q. What kind of faith did the postmaster wish to have? 

OR 

Q. Whose faith did the postmaster wish to have? 

OR 

Q. What faith did the postmaster wish to have? 

OR 

Q. What did the postmaster wish to have? 

• The postmaster wished to have the faith of Lencho in God. 

94. " In order not to shake the writer's faith in God, the postmaster came up with an idea." 

Q. What was the idea that the postmaster came up with? 

OR 

Q. Why did the postmaster decide to answer the letter? 

• The idea that the postmaster came up with was to reply to Lencho's letter. 
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95. What was required to answer the letter? 

OR 

Q. What did the postmaster need to answer Lencho's letter? 

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Q. What did the postmaster need to answer Lencho's letter more than goodwill, ink and paper? 

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Q. What was required to answer the letter besides having goodwill, ink and paper? 

• An amount of ' one hundred pesos' was required to answer the letter more than goodwill, ink and paper. 

96. Who answered /replied to Lencho's letter? 

OR 

Q. Who gave an answer to Lencho's letter? 

• The postmaster gave an answer to Lencho's letter. 

 

97. How did the postmaster answer Lencho's letter? 

• By collecting money from different sources, the postmaster answered Lencho's letter. 

 

98. How did the postmaster collect money for Lencho? 

• The postmaster collected money through contributions. 

99. Who were obliged to give/donate/ contribute something ' for an act of charity'? 

OR 

Q. Who were obliged to contribute/ donate money ' for an act of charity' 

• Some friends of the postmaster were obliged. 

 

100. What is this ' act of charity' that G.L. Fuentes talks of? 

OR 

Q. What is the ' act of charity' that the author talks of? 

OR 

Q. What is an 'act of charity'? 

OR 

Q. What do you mean by an 'act of charity'? 

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Q. What does ' act of charity' imply? 

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Q. What does ' act of charity' refer to here? 

• An ' act of charity' is a humanitarian act of helping those in need, with goods or money. Here, it refers to the ' noble cause' of helping Lencho. 

 

101. How much did the postmaster collect for Lencho? 

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Q. How much could the postmaster collect for Lencho? 

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Q. How much was the postmaster able to gather together? 

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Q. How much was possible for the postmaster to gather together? 

• The postmaster could collect only seventy pesos. 

 

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102. Who sent seventy pesos to Lencho? 

OR 

Q. How much money did the postmaster send to Lencho? 

• It was the postmaster who sent seventy pesos to Lencho. 

 

103. Where did the postmaster put the money he had collected? 

• The postmaster put the money in an envelope addressed to Lencho. 

 

104. What signature did the letter contain? 

OR 

Q. Whose signature did the letter contain? 

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Q. What single word did the letter contain that the postmaster had sent to Lencho? 

OR 

Q. What was written as a signature on the letter sent to Lencho? 

• The letter contained a single word as a signature: God. 

 

105. Why did Lencho come to the post office earlier in the following morning? 

OR 

Q. Why did Lencho come to the post office earlier than usual in that particular morning? 

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Q. Why did Lencho come to the post office a bit earlier than usual the following Sunday? 

• On that particular day/ morning, Lencho came a bit earlier than usual to the post office to ask if there was a letter for him. 

 

106. Why did the postmaster experience the contentment of a man performing a good deed? why was the postmaster content/ happy? 

• The postmaster was content as he had done the 'act of charity'. 

 

107. " The postmaster, experiencing the contentment of a man who has performed a good deed". What was the 'good deed' that the post master had done? 

OR 

Q. What 'good deed' did the postmaster do? 

• The postmaster performed the ' good deed' of helping Lencho with money. 

 

108. Why did Lencho show no surprise on seeing the money? 

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Q. Why was Lench not surprised to find a letter for him with money in it? 

• Lencho was not even a little surprised because he had firm faith in God. 

 

109. Why did Lencho go up to the window? 

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Q. Why did Lencho go to the window at the post office? 

• In order to write another letter, Lencho went there. 

 

110. Why was there much wrinkling of Lencho's brow? 

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Q. What caused much wrinkling of Lencho's brow while writing the letter? 

OR 

Q. Why did Lencho write the letter with much wrinkling of his brow? 

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Q. Why had Lencho to write the letter with much wrinkling of his brow? 

• The effort made to express Lencho's ideas caused much wrinkling while writing the letter. 

 

111. Where did Lencho write the letter to God? 

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Q. Where did Lencho start writing the letter? 

• On the public writing- table, Lencho started writing the letter. 

 

112. What did Lencho do with the stamp? 

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Q. How did Lencho affix the stamp? 

• Lencho licked and then affixed the stamp to the envelope with a blow of his fist. 

 

113. Why did Lencho ask God not to send the money through mail? 

OR 

Q. Why did Lencho want the money to be sent through mail? 

• Lencho asked God not to do so because he thought the postal employees would misappropriate his money. 

 

114. What did Lencho call the post office employees? 

• Lencho called the post office employees as a 'bunch of crooks'. 

 

115 How, according to Lencho, were the post office employees? 

OR 

Q. What are the postal employees like, according to Lencho? 

• According to Lencho, the post office employees were 'crooks'. 

 

116. Where was the solitary /isolated/lonely/only house located? 

• The solitary/ isolated/ lonely/ only house was located on the hilltop in a valley. 

117. What was Lencho's only pride and possession? 

• The field of ripe corn was his only pride and possession. 

 

118. Who did Lencho blame for the loss of thirty pesos in the envelope? 

OR 

Q. Who did Lencho accused of stealing the rest thirty pesos? 

• For this loss, Lencho blamed the post office employees. 

 

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