SEBA Board Class - X : A Letter to God

Dear reader/ students I am uploading some of the important questions from the chapter A Letter to God, please go through it and if you can't answer comment me, I'll provide you the answer as the earliest possible.

1. Choose the meaning of the underlined words from the alternatives given in brackets :

i) ............... sat on the crest of a low............... (top of a hill/ middle/ height)
ii) in the solitary house ......... (lonely/ sociable/ congested)
iii) I need a hundred pesos.......... (currency of Indian/ Currency of Spain/ Currency of Latin American)
iv) .......... he considered the field of ripe corn with its flowers, draped in curtain of rain. (covered/ with/ unveiled)
v) The postmaster, experiencing the contentment of a man .............. (faith/ comment/ satisfaction)
vi) ....... Lencho who knew his fields intimately. (closely/ deeply/ thoroughly)
vii) The following Sunday at daybreak he began to write a letter. (noon/ evening/ down)
viii) The weather is perfect with some showers thrown in the ground. (rain/dust/air)
ix) A plague of locusts would have left more............. (a kind of insect/ animals/ birds)
x) The postmaster was a fat, amiable fellow. (manner less/ friendly/ arrogant)
xi) The only thing the earth needed was a downpour or ......(heavy rains/ showers/ drought)
xii) ............... the post office employees are a bunch of crooks. (idiot/ dishonest/ innocent persons)

2. Answer the following questions ( 1 mark each)

i) Who is the writer of the prose piece "A Letter to God"?
ii) what happened to Lencho's fields after hailstrom?
iii) Where did Lencho drop his letter?
iv) What was prepared by the woman in the lesson "A Letter to God"?
v) Where was Lencho's house situated?
vi) What were Lencho's older boys doing?
vii) How much money did the postmaster collect?
viii) What was the only thing the earth needed?
ix) What was Lencho's only one hope?
x) What crop was farmed by Lencho?
xi) What did Lencho hope for?
xii) Name the only farmer lived in the crest of the low hill.
xiii) Why did Lencho write a letter to God?
xiv) Where was Lencho's house situated?
xv) What was Lencho's occupation?
xvi) What happened to Lencho's field after the hailstrom?
xvii) What did Lencho compare to raindrops?
xviii) What was destroyed by the hailstorm?


3. Answer the following questions ( 2 marks each)
1) How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho's field?
2) Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like "new coins"?
3) Why did Lencho become angry when he counted the money?
4) Why did Lencho seek the help of God?
5) Why did the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why did he sign the letter God?
6) What were Lencho's feelings when the hail stopped?
7) What happened to Lencho's fields during the hailstorm?
8) Why did Lencho call the post office employees were a bunch of crooks?
9) What made Lencho angry?
10) How did the postmaster collect the money to send to Lencho?
11) What did Lencho write in his second letter to God?
12) "God" he wrote if you don't help me, my family and I will go hungry this year. -   Why does Lencho and is family will go hungry?

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