Chapter-1: A Letter to God

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

  • GL. Fuentes
  • J. K. Rowling
  • William Shakespeare
  • Anne Frank
Answer
GL. Fuentes

2. Lencho demanded ……. from God.

  • 70 pesos
  • 100 pesos
  • 30 pesos
  • None of these
Answer
100 pesos

3. The ……. collected 70 pesos for Lencho.

  • Postman
  • Manager
  • Postmaster
  • None of these
Answer
Postmaster

4. How did he feel when he counted the money?

  • grateful
  • relieved
  • joyful
  • angry
Answer
angry

5. What the postmaster needed to help Lencho was –

  • people’s cooperation
  • people’s goodwill
  • his employees’ help
  •  money
Answer
money

6. Where was Lencho’s house situated?

  • in a city
  • top of plateau
  • top of a hill
  • bottom of the hill
Answer
top of a hill

7. The field looked as if it were covered in …….

  • sugar
  • ice
  • locusts
  • salt
Answer
salt

8. What did lencho think of the post office employees ?

  • proud
  • salt
  • bunch of crooks
  • unhelpful
Answer
bunch of crooks

9. What did Lencho compare the large raindrops with?

  • silver coins
  • diamonds
  • pearls
  • new coins
Answer
new coins

10. How much money was the postmaster able to arrange?

  • 70 pesos
  • 100 pesos
  • 30 pesos
  • None of these
Answer
70 pesos

11. What else did the reply demanded apart from goodwill, ink and paper?

  • lost crop
  • God’s signature
  • money
  • new seeds
Answer
money

12. Lencho compared the quantum of damage with

  • attack by rats
  • attack by crows
  • plague of locusts
  • None of these
Answer
 plague of locusts

13. What did the postmaster feel on experiencing Lencho receive the letter ?

  • contended
  • overwhelmed
  • proud
  • All of these
Answer
contended

14. Which crop was growing on Lencho’s fields?

  • Corn
  • Rice
  • Barley
  • None of these
Answer
Corn

15. What destroyed Lencho’s fields?

  • heavy rainfall
  • landslide
  • hailstorm
  • flood
Answer
hailstorm

16. What did Lencho hope for?

  •  A good shower of rain for his crop
  •  A new motorcycle
  • A tractor
  • None of the Above
Answer
A good shower of rain for his crop

17. Why was Lencho satisfied?

  •  On seeing a new tractor in his field
  • On seeing a new buffalo
  •  On seeing the field of ripe corn with flowers
  •  None of the Above
Answer
 On seeing the field of ripe corn with flowers

18. Why did Lencho need money?

  •  To buy a tractor
  •  To save his family from hunger
  • To buy a new phone
  •  To buy a buffalo
Answer
To save his family from hunger

19. Who read the letter sent by Lencho?

  • His Wife
  • Postmaster
  •  One of the farmer
  • The God
Answer
Postmaster

20.What is the irony in this lesson?

  •  Lencho was sad after the hailstorm even though he was the one waiting for a shower
  • Postmaster laughed at Lencho but still helped arrange money for him
  •  Lencho blamed the post office employees who in fact helped him
  •  there is no irony
Answer
 Lencho blamed the post office employees who in fact helped him