Lesson - 1. A Letter to God. LESSON-1 Mp3

Lesson - 1. A Letter to God. By - G.L. Fuentes

Passage - 1 The House - only one …………………….. the North East. Page no. 3

1. from which lesson has this text been taken?

(a) A letter to God (b) His first Flight (c) Black Aeroplane

2. Where was Lencho’s house situated?

(a) At the foot of a hill (b) In the village (c) On the crest of a low hill

3. Find out the word, from the above passage, which is similar to the word ‘closely’

(a) promised (b) dotted (c) intimately

Ans. 1-a, 2-c, 3-c

OPTIONAL - 1.Who read the letters sent by Lencho?

(a) His wife (b) The postmaster (c) The God (d) His son

2.Who is the author of the lesson ‘A Letter to God’?

(a) G.L. Fuentes (b) Anne Frank (c) Gavin Maxwell (d) Eleanor Estes

3. What did Lencho think of the post office employees?

(a) rude (b) proud (c) bunch of crooks (d) unhelpful

4. How much money was arranged by the postmaster?

(a) 100 pesos (b) 500 pesos (c) 70 pesos (d) 1000 pesos

5. How much money did Lencho want?

(a) 100 pesos (b) 50 pesos (c) 10 pesos (d) 70 pesos

6. The field looked as if it were covered in -------.

(a) locusts (b) salt (c) sugar (d) greenery

7 . Lencho had grown----- in his fields.

(a) barley (b) corn (c) rice (d) wheat

8. Where was Lencho’s house situated?

(a) in a city (b) in the forest (c) bottom of the hill (d) top of a hill

9. Lencho compared the large raindrops with---------------.

(a) new coins (b) pearl (c) diamonds (d) stone

10. What destroyed Lencho’s fields?

(a) locusts (b) hailstones (c) leaves (d) salt

11.Lencho had faith in----------.

(a) other farmers (b) the postmaster (c) the God (d) his family

12. Why did Lencho need money?

(a) to save his family (b) to buy a tractor (c) to go to city (d) to herd cattle

13. Lencho wrote a letter to------

(a) his friend (b) God (c) the postmaster (d) his father

Ans. 1-b, 2-a, 3-c, 4-c, 5-a, 6-b, 7-b, 8-d, 9-a, 10-b, 11-c, 12-a, 13-b

Question & Answers

1. What did Lencho hope for?

Ans. Lencho hoped for a shower for his crops.

2. Why did Lencho say that the raindrops were like 'new coins'?

Ans. Lencho said that the raindrops were like 'new coins' because the rain would help him to get a good harvest.

3. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho's fields?

Ans. The rain changed into a storm. The corn was totally destroyed.

4. What were Lencho's feelings when the hail stopped?

Ans. Lencho was filled with grief after the hail stopped as everything was ruined.

5. Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?

Ans. Lenncho had firm faith in God. He wrote a letter to God.

6. Who reads the letter?

Ans. Postmaster reads the letter.

7. What did the postmaster do then? Or How did the postmaster help Lencho?

Ans. The postmaster decided to collect money and send it to Lencho on behalf of God.

8. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?

Ans. Lencho was not surprised to find the letter with the money. He felt that God had sent him the money.

9. What made Lencho angry?

Ans. Lencho was angry because he had demanded 100 pesos and he got only 70 pesos.

10. Who does Lencho have complete faith in ? What did he do?

Ans. Lencho had firm faith in God. He wrote a letter to God.

11. Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter 'God'?

Ans. The postmaster sends money to Lencho and signs the letter 'God' in order to keep Lencho's faith in God alive.

12. Who does Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony in the situation?

Ans. Lencho things that the post office employees have taken the rest of the money. The irony of the situation is that the kind effered of the postmaster which deserves gratitude is nullified by Lencho's thinking.

13. Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a person would you say he is?

Ans. It is almost impossible to find a person like Lencho as he is an unquestioning and naive kind of person who has on unshakable belief in God.

14. There are two kinds of conflict in the story between human beings and nature and between human beings themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?

Ans. The conflict between humans and nature is shown by the destruction of Lencho's crop by the hailstorm.

The story shows another conflict between humans themselves. The postmaster helps Lencho by sending the money. Even though he did a good deed, Lencho blamed post office people for taking away some amount of money.

15. Why did Lencho not try to find out who had sent the money to him?

Ans. Lencho did not try to find out who had sent the money to him. It was because he had complete faith in God.