NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English A Letter to God

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Chapter wise Solutions

Footprints

• 1 A Triumph of Surgery
• 2 The Thiefs Story
• 3 The Midnight Visitor
• 4 A Question of Trust
• 5 Footprints without Feet
• 6 The Making of a Scientist
• 7 The Necklace
• 8 The Hack Driver
• 9 Bholi
• 10 The Book That Saved the Earth

First Flight

• 1 A Letter to God
• 2 Long Walk to Freedom
• 3 Two Stories about Flying
• 4 From the Diary of Anne Frank
• 5 The Hundred Dresses I
• 6 The Hundred Dresses II
• 7 Glimpses of India
• 8 Mijbil the Otter
• 9 Madam Rides the Bus
• 10 The Sermon at Benares
• 11 The Proposal

First Flight (Poem)

• 1 Dust of snow
• 2 Fire and Ice
• 3 A Tiger in the Zoo
• 4 How to Tell Wild Animals
• 5 The Ball Poem
• 6 Amanda
• 7 Animals
• 8 The Trees
• 9 Fog
• 10 The Tale of Custard the Dragon
• 11 For Anne Gregory

NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English A Letter to God

1. What did Lencho hope for?

Ans: Lencho hoped for rains as the only thing that his field of ripe corn needed was a shower.

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2. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?

Ans: Lencho’s crops were ready for harvest. As raindrops would have helped in getting a better harvest, resulting in more prosperity, so Lencho compared them with new coins.

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

Ans: The rain was pouring down. But suddenly, a strong wind began to blow and very large hailstones began to fall along with the rain.
All the crop in Lencho’s fields destroyed.

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

Ans: After hail stopped, Lencho’s soul was filled with sadness.He could see a bleak future for him and his family. Hew was worried aboutlack of foodfor the coming year.

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Page No: 6 Oral Comprehension Check

1. Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Ans: Lencho had faith in God.He believed that God’s eyes see everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience. He wrote a letter to God saying that he needed a hundred pesos to sow his field again.

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2. Who read the letter?

Ans: Postmaster read the letter.

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3. What did the postmaster do then?

Ans: The Postmaster first laughed. But then he became serious. He was deeply moved by the writer’s faith in God. He did not want to shake this faith. So he decided to collect the money and send it to Lencho.

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Page No: 7 Oral Comprehension Check

1.Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Ans: No. Lencho was not at all surprised to see the letter from God with money inside it. His confidence and faith in God was such that he had expected that reply from God.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English A Letter to God

2. What made him angry?

Ans: When he finished counting moneyhe found only seventy pesos. But he demanded hundred pesos. He was confident that God could neither make a mistake nor deny him what he had requested. Therefore, he concluded that the post office employees must have taken the remaining thirty pesos.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English A Letter to God

Thinking about the Text

1. Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell you this?

Ans: Lencho had complete faith in God. The sentences in the story that show this are as follows:
(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 what is deep in one’s conscience.

(iii) “God,” he wrote, “if you don’t help me, my family and I will go hungry this year.”

(iv) He wrote ‘To God’ on the envelope, put the letter inside and, still troubled, went to town.

(v) God could not have made a mistake, nor could he have denied Lencho what he had requested.

.(vi) It said: “God: of the money that I asked for, only seventy pesos reached me. Send me the rest, since I need it very much.”

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2. Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter ‘God’?

Ans: Postmaster was moved by Lencho’s complete faith in the God. So, he decided tosend money toLencho. Moreover, the postmaster did not want to shake Lencho’s faith in God. So, he signed the letter ‘God’. It was a good ploy to convey a message that God had himself written the letter.

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3. Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?

Ans: No, Lencho does not try to find out who had sent the money to him. This is because he had great confidence in God and never suspected that it could be someone else other than God who would send him the money. His faith in God was so strong that he believed that God had sent him the money.

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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.]

Ans: Lencho thinks that the post office people have taken the money. It is the post office people who send the money to Lencho. But, on the other hand, Lencho thinks they have stolen his money. He calls them crooks. Thus there is an element of irony in this situation.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English A Letter to God

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	Naïve	stupid	ungrateful
selfish	comical	unquestioning

Ans: I don’t think there can be any such people in the real world. Lencho is literate and yet he dosen’t know how his letter will reach God without any address.
He probably would be naïve and unquestioning.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English A Letter to God

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 shown by the destruction of Lencho’s crops by the hailstorm. As the crops failed by hail, Lencho started feeling sad and gloomy after the storm appropriately projects the conflict of the nature and the man. The Story also shown another conflict, between humans themselves. The postmaster, along with the help of the other post office employees, sent Lencho the money that they could manage to collect. They were not related to Lencho in any manner. It was an act of kindness and selflessness on their part. Even though they did a good deed, Lencho blamed them for taking away some amount of money. This shows that man does not have faith in his fellow humans, thereby giving rise to this conflict.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English A Letter to God

Thinking about the Language

1. There are different names in different parts of the world for storms, depending on their nature. Can you match the names in the box with their descriptions below, and fill in the blanks? You may use a dictionary to help you.

gale,	whirlwind,	cyclone,
hurricane,	tornado,	typhoon

1. A violent tropical storm in which strong winds move in a circle:
__ __ c __ __ __ __
2. An extremely strong wind: __ a __ __
3. A violent tropical storm with very strong winds: __ __ p __ __ __ __
4. A violent storm whose centre is a cloud in the shape of a funnel:
__ __ __ n __ __ __
5. A violent storm with very strong winds, especially in the western Atlantic ocean: __ __ r __ __ __ __ __ __
6. A very strong wind that moves very fast in a spinning movement and causes a lot of damage: __ __ __ __ l __ __ __ __
Ans: 1. Cyclone
2. Gale
3. Typhoon
4. Tornado
5. Hurricane
6. Whirlwind

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English A Letter to God

2. Match the sentences in Column A with the meanings of ‘hope’ in Column B.

A		B
1.	Will you get the subjects you want to study in college? Ihopeso.	−	a feeling that something good will probably happen
2.	Ihopeyou don’t mind my saying this, but I don’t like the way you are arguing.	−	thinking that this would happen (It may or may not have happened).
3.	This discovery will give newhopeto HIV/AIDS sufferers.	−	stopped believing that this good thing would happen
4.	We werehoping against hopethat the judges would not notice our mistakes.	−	wanting something to happen (and thinking it quite possible)
5.	I called earlyin the hopeof speaking to her before she went to school.	−	showing concern that what you say should not offend or disturb the other person: a way of being polite
6.	Just when everybody hadgiven up hope, the fishermen came back, seven days after the cyclone.	−	wishing for something to happen, although this is very unlikely

Answer

	A		B
1.	Will you get the subjects you want to study in college? Ihopeso.	−	wanting something to happen (and thinking it quite possible)
2.	Ihopeyou don’t mind my saying this, but I don’t like the way you are arguing.	−	showing concern that what you say should not offend or disturb the other person: a way of being polite
3.	This discovery will give newhopeto HIV/AIDS sufferers.	−	a feeling that something good will probably happen
4.	We werehoping against hopethat the judges would not notice our mistakes.	−	wishing for something to happen, although this is very unlikely
5.	I called earlyin the hope ofspeaking to her before she went to school.	−	thinking that this would happen (It may or may not have happened.)
6.	Just when everybody hadgiven up hope, the fisherman came back, seven days after the cyclone.	−	stopped believing that this good thing would happen

 

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English A Letter to God

3. Join the sentences given below usingwho,whom,whose,whichas suggested.

1. I often go to Mumbai. Mumbai is the commercial capital of India. (which)
2. My mother is going to host a TV show on cooking. She cooks very well. (who)
3. These sportspersons are going to meet the President. Their performance has been excellent. (whose)
4. Lencho prayed to God. His eyes see into our minds. (whose)
5. This man cheated me. I trusted him. (whom)
Ans: 1. I often go to Mumbai, which is the commercial capital of India.
2. My mother, who cooks very well, is going to host a TV show on cooking.
3. These sportspersons, whose performance has been excellent, are going to meet the President.
4. Lencho prayed to God, whose eyes see into our minds.
5. This man, whom I trusted, cheated me.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English A Letter to God

4. Find sentences in the story with negative words, which express the following ideas emphatically.

1. The trees lost all their leaves.
Ans: The trees lost all their leaves.
Not a leaf remained on the trees.
2. The letter was addressed to God himself.
Ans: The letter was addressed to God himself.
It was nothing less than a letter to God.
3. The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.
Ans: The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.
Never in his career as a postman had he known that address.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English A Letter to God

5.Inpairs, find metaphors from the story to complete the table below. Try to say what qualities are being compared. One has been done for you.

Object	Metaphor	Qualityor Feature Compared
Cloud	Huge mountains of clouds	The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains.
Raindrops
Hailstones
Locusts
		An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead.
	An ox of a man.

Ans:

Object	Metaphor	Quality or Feature Compared
Cloud	Huge mountains of clouds	The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains
Raindrops	A curtain of rain	The draping or covering of an area by a curtain
Hailstones	The frozen pearls	The resemblance in colour and hardness of a pearl
Locusts	A plague of locusts	The consequences (destruction) of plague
Locusts	A plague of locusts	An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead
Man	An ox of a man	The working of an ox in the fields (hard work)

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