Lesson-1
A Letter to God
1. What did Lencho hope for?
Ans:- Lencho hoped for rain as it was much needed for a good harvest.
2. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like 'new coins'?
Ans:- For lencho, the raindrops were like 'new coins' as they promised him a good harvest resulting in more prasperity.
3. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho fields?
Ans:- The rain who came with a new hope had changed into a hailstorm. A strong wind began to blow and huge hailstones began to fall along with the rain. All the craps in Lencho's field got destroyed due to hailstorm.
4. What were Lencho's feelings when the hail stoppes?
Ans:- When the hail stopped Lencho was filled with grief as everything was ruined and there was nothing that could feed his family. He could see a bleak future for him and his family.
5. Who or What did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Ans:- Lencho had firm faith in God. He believed that God sees everything including one's deep conscience and help everyone in one's problems. He wrote a letter to God demanding him a hundred pesos to his field again.
6. Who read the letter?
Ans:- The postmaster read the letter.
7. What did the postmaster do then?
Ans:- The postmaster helped Lencho by sending money on behalf of God. lencho had written a letter God help him money. The postmaster didn't want to shake Lencho's faith in God. So he collected money and sent to Lencho.
8. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Ans:- No, Lencho was not surprised to find a letter for him with money in it, because he had full faith in God. He knew that God saw everything even in one's conscience.
9. What made him angry?
Ans:- Lencho asked for hundred pesos from God. But God sent him only seventy pesas. It was not good on God's part. This made him angry.
Thinking about the text
1. Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in story tell you this?
Ans:- Lencho have complete faith in God as he is instructed that God knows everything and helps as in our problems. There are few sentences which show this.
I. 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.
II. 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 that is deep in one's conscience.
III. God could not have made a mistake, nor could he have denied Lencho what he had requested.
2. Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sing the letter God?
Ans:- The postmaster does not want that Lancho's faith in God should break. He in fact, feels proud that Lencho has such a great faith in God. He signs the letter again to keep lencho's faith. It he does not do so, Lencho might think differently. His faith in God may shake.
3. Did lencho try to find out who had sent the Money to him? Why/Why not?
Ans:- Lencho did not try to find out who had sent the money to him. It was because he had complete faith in God. There fore he did not bother about the sender.
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 amazing because it is the opposite of what is expected? )
Ans:- Lencho thinks that the rest of the money have been taken by the emplayees of the past office as he had asked for hundred pesas from God. But he get only seventy pesas with the letter from God, and he belives that God can not make such a mistake. Thus he assumes that they have stolen the money.
The irony in the sutuation is that due to his full faith in God, Lencho suspects those people who helped him in his problem and tried to keep his faith alive in God.
5. Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a person would you say he is? You may select apprapriate words from the box to answer the question.
Ans:- In this world of science, it is hard to find a person like Lencho who is an unquestiong and naive by nature. He looks so stupid as he doesn't understand who has sent him money and how his letter God without any address, it is Lencho's faith in God. In real world, people are selfish, greedy, and ungrateful, while Lencho is totally lavable and different.
6. There are two kinds of conflict in the story between humans and nature and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
Ans:- 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 he become the victim of nature who destroyed his crop field.
This very story is also illustrated another conflict between human themselves. After receiving Lencho's letter to God, the postmaster along with the staff sent money to him which he asked from God in order to keep his belife in God. But Lencho had climed the staff of post office that they take away money from him because he get called them "a bunch of crook". It shows that man does not have faith in other man, thereby giving rise to this conflict.
1. What made Lencho angry when he counted the money?
(a) Lencho received sixty pesos less than what he had demanded from God
(b) Lencho received thirty pesos less than what he had demanded from God
(c) Lencho received hundred fifty pesos less than what he had demanded From God
(d) Lencho received seventy pesos less then what he had demanded from God
Ans: (b) Lencho received thirty pesos less than what he had demanded from God
2. Who is the chief character in the story " A letter to God" ?
(a) Rajvir
(b) Pranjal
(c) lencho
(d) Nelson Mandela
Ans: Lencho
3. Where is Lencho's house ?
(a) On the crest of a low valley
(b) On the crest of a low hill
(c) On the crest of a low mountain
(d) In the countryside
Ans: On the crest of a low hill
4. What is the profession of Lencho ?
(a) Manager
(b) farmer
(c) Postman
(d) Trader
Ans: (b) Farmer
5. Lencho cultivated_____.
(a) Corn
(b) Barley
(c) Paddy
(d) Wheat
Ans: Corn
6. " These area 't raindrops falling from the sky, they are new coins." who uttered this line ?
(a) The Postman
(b) Lencho
(c) The older boys
(d) The woman who was preparing supper
Ans: (c) Lencho
7. What was needed by Lencho's field for a good harvest ?
(a) Rain
(b) Pesticides
(c) Tilling
(d) Manure
Ans: (a) Rain
8. Who exclaimed " Yes, God willing".
(a) The Postmaster
(b) The older boys
(c) Lencho himself
(d) The woman who was preparing supper
Ans: (d) The woman who was preparing supper
9. Who wrote the prose-piece "A Letter to God"?
(a) Arup Kumar Datta
(b) G. L Fuentes
(c) Lucio Rodrigues
(d) Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Ans: (b) G. L Fuentes
10. Lencho compared the little drops of rain with___.
(a) Ten cent pieces
(b) Five cent pieces
(c) Twenty cent pieces Ans.
(d) Two cent pieces
Ans: (b) Five cent pieces
11. Why did Lencho need money?
(a) To save his family from the pangs of hunger
(b) To buy a pair of oxen
(c) To enroll his children to school.
(d) To buy paddy seeds.
Ans: (a) To save his family from the pangs of hunger
12. Lencho compared the big drops of rain with
(a) Five cent pieces
(b) Ten cent pieces
(c) Twenty cent pieces
(d) Two cent pieces
Ans: (b) Ten cent pieces
13. Who exclaimed, "We'all go hungry this year."
(a) The Postmaster
(b) The older boys
(c) Lencho
(d) The woman who was preparing supper
Ans: (c) Lencho
14. The field was white, as if covered with____."
(a) Salt
(b) Snow
(c) Milk
(d) None of these
Ans: (a) Salt
15. "A plague of locusts would have left more than this." What is a locust?
(a) A kind of bacteria
(b) A wild animal
(c) a kind of insects
(d) None of these
Ans: (c) a kind of insects
16. How much money did Lencho need in his time of crisis?
(a) One Seventy pesos
(b) Seventy Five pesos
(c) Hundred pesos
(d) Seventy pesos
Ans: (c) Hundred pesos
17. How much money was the
(a) Seventy Five pesos
(b) One Seventy pesos
(c) Hundred pesos
(d) Seventy pesos
Ans: (d) Seventy pesos
18. Lencho hoped for a help from
(a) The Postmaster
(b) God
(c) His relatives
(d) His friends
Ans: God
19. How did Lencho work in his fields?
(a) Like a machine
(b) Like an animal
(c) Like a tractor
(d) None of these
Ans: (c) Like a tractor
20. Why was Lencho not at all surprised to see the money in the envelope?
(a) He had unwavering faith in God
(b) He was so sad that he did not acknowledge it
(c) He was a mischievous man
(d) None of These
Ans: (a) He had unwavering faith in God
21. Peso is the currency of
(a) Spain
(b) Australia
(c) The USA
(d) Latin America
Ans: (d) Latin America
22. What did Lencho think of the post-office employees?
(a) Mischievous
(b) Proud
(c) A bunch of crooks
(d) Corrupt
Ans: (c) A bunch of crooks
23. What was the only one thing that the Earth needed according to Lencho?
(a) Water from the river
(b) A downpour or at least a shower
(c) Snowfall
(d) None of These
Ans: (b) A downpour or at least a shower
24. What does the story tell about the character of Lencho?
(a) Lencho was a lazy fellow.
(b) Lencho had faith in God.
(c) Lencho was a friendly and amiable man.
(d) All of the above
Ans: (b) Lencho had faith in God.
25. Lencho compared the quantum of damage with:
(a) plague of locusts
(b) attack by mice
(c) attack by sparrows
(d) None of these
Ans: (a) plague of locusts
26. What was the only hope left in the hearts of Lencho and his family?
(a) There was no hope left
(b) Compensation Government
(c) Help from Lencho's friends and relatives
(d) Help from God
Ans: (d) Help from God
27. Why did the postmaster decide to reply to Lencho's letter?
(a) To keep intact Lencho's unwavering faith in God
(b) The postmaster was a very good and kind man
(c) To help Lencho and his family in the time of crisis.
(d) None of these
Ans: (a) To keep intact Lencho's unwavering faith in God
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