Class X NCERT solutions
Subject: English
Chapter: Letter to God
Additional Questions
1. What did the earth need?
Answer: A downpour or a shower.
2. What did Lencho do throughout the morning?
Answer: Lencho waited for the rain.
3. Why had Lencho kept looking towards the north-east?
Answer: Lencho had continued looking towards the north-east course
because the clouds were to originate from that direction.
4. What promised a good harvest?
Answer: The waterway and the field of ready corn specked with
the blossoms guaranteed a good harvest.
5. Why did Lencho get angry?
Answer: Lencho got angry to discover less cash than that he had
asked.
6. Who could not have made a mistake in Lencho’s eyes?
Answer: God, in Lencho’s, eyes could not have made a mistake.
7. Why did Lencho not surprise on seeing the money?
Answer: Lencho was not amazed in light of the fact that he had
full trust in God. He had firm confidence in the assistance of God.
8. What did Lencho find when he counted the money?
Answer: He found just 70 pesos and not 100, the amount he had
requested.
9. What was Lencho thinking while writing the letter?
Answer: Lencho suspected that the post office employees had
stolen a piece of his cash sent by God.
10. Why did the postmaster open the mailbox immediately after Lencho had posted his letter?
Answer: The postmaster wanted to see Lencho's reaction
subsequent to accepting the cash. He thought Lencho must have thanked God for
sending the cash.
11. How much money had Lencho asked for?
Answer: Lencho had asked for one Hundred Pesos.
12. Why did Lencho not want to send the rest of the money by mail?
Answer: Lencho did not need the remainder of the cash to be sent
through mail since he thought post office employees were deceptive individuals
who had deceived him.
Q13. Why did Lencho go out in the rain?
Answer: Lencho went out in the downpour to have the joy of
inclination the downpour on his body.
Q14. Why were the raindrops like `new coins’ for Lencho?
Answer: They resembled new coins because Lencho felt that it
would yield a decent gather, and help him earn cash.
Q15. How did these new coins ultimately bring disaster to his cornfield?
Answer: These new coins i.e., raindrops before long transformed
into hailstones which annihilated all his yields and demolished his
expectations.
Q16. Explain the description: ‘The air was fresh and sweet’.
Answer: The clouds acquired cool and sweet smelling air their
wake.
Q17. What help has Lancho asked for?
Answer: Lencho has requested a hundred pesos so as to sow his
field once more.
Q18. Why did Lencho need help?
Answer: Lencho required help on the grounds that the hailstorm
had devastated his yield, and his family would go hungry that year.
Q19. Why did Lencho write a letter to God?
Answer: Lencho’s crops were totally wrecked by the hailstorm. He
had no one to help however he had confidence in God.
Q20. Why were Lencho and his family in distress?
Answer: Lencho’s yields were totally decimated by the
hailstones. He expected that he and his family would go hungry.
Q21. Why did no leaf remain on the trees?
Answer: A hailstorm had struck, departing the field uncovered.
Q22. How did Lencho feel after the storm?
Answer: Lencho was totally troubled and upset.
Q23. What was the major effect of the hailstorm on the field?
Answer: The corn was completely devastated.
Q24. What made Lencho sad?
Answer: He was left with no corn to sow and sustain his family.
Q25. How did Lencho feel when he saw his fields covered with the curtain of rain?
Answer: Lencho felt fulfilled.
Q26. What followed the rain?
Answer: A strong wind pursued the rain.
Q27. What did hailstone resemble?
Answer: They resembled silver coins.
Q28. How did these new silver coins bring disaster to him?
Answer: These new silver coins transformed into hailstones which
obliterated every one of his yields and destroyed his expectations.
Q29. What did Lencho think throughout the night?
Answer: Lencho thought of one hope—the assistance of God.
Q30. What does ‘Lencho was an ox of a man’ imply?
Answer: Lencho was persevering—he worked like an ox.
Q31. Which line suggests that Lencho was literate?
Answer: The following Sunday… he began to write a letter ….”
This line suggests that Lencho was literate.
Q32. What strange action did Lencho take?
Answer: Lencho’s strange action was his letter routed to God.
Q33. What was the postmaster’s reaction to seeing the letter?
Answer: The postmaster first laughed then became serious.
Q34. What did the postmaster wish?
Answer: The postmaster wished to have as much confidence in God
as the writer who composed the letter to God had.
Q35. What kind of person was the postmaster?
Answer: The postmaster was an obliging, kind, charming and
agreeable individual.
Q36. How did the postmaster help Lencho?
Answer: The postmaster asked his associates and companions to
contribute some cash as a demonstration of philanthropy. He himself contributed
some and sent it to Lencho.
44. Why did he become angry when he counted the money?
45. Could God have denied Lencho what he had requested Him?
46. What was the help he demanded from God?
TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS
1. What did Lencho hope for?
Answer: Lencho hoped for downpours as the only thing that his field of ripe corn required was a shower.
2. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?
Answer: Lencho's crops were prepared for harvest. As raindrops would have helped in in getting a better harvest, bringing about more prosperity, so Lencho compared them with new coins.
3. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?
Answer: The rain was pouring down. But, all of a sudden, a strong wind started to blow and large hailstones started to fall alongside the downpour.
All the crops in Lencho's fields were destroyed.
4. What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped?
Answer: After hail stopped, Lencho's soul was loaded up with sadness. He could see a disheartening future for him and his family. He was concerned aboutlack of food for the coming year.
5. Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Answer: Lencho had faith in God. He believed that God's eyes see everything, even what is deep in one's soul. He wrote a letter to God saying that he required a hundred pesos to sow his field once more.
6. Who read the letter?
Answer : Postmaster read the letter.
7. What did the postmaster do then?
Answer: The Postmaster first chuckled. But, then he became serious. He was profoundly moved by the writer's faith in God. He would not like to shake this faith. So he chose to collect the cash and send it to Lencho.
8. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Answer: No. Lencho was not in any way surprised to see the letter from God with money inside it. His faith and confidence in God was such that he had anticipated that reply from God.
9. What made him angry?
Answer: When he finished counting money, he found just seventy pesos. However, he requested hundred pesos. He was sure that God could neither commit a mistake nor deny him what he had mentioned. In this way, he inferred that the post office employees must have taken the rest thirty pesos.
10. Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell you this?
Answer: 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.”
11. Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter ‘God’?
Answer: Postmaster was moved by Lencho's complete faith in the God. So, he chose to send money to Lencho. Besides, the postmaster did not have any desire to shake Lencho's faith in God. That was why, he signed the letter 'God'. It was a decent ploy to pass on a message that God had himself written the letter.
12. Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?
Answer: No, Lencho did not try to discover who had sent the money to him. This is on the grounds that he had extraordinary trust in God and never presumed that it could be another person other than God who might send him the money. His faith in God was so strong that he believed that God had sent him the money.
13. 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.]
Answer: Lencho imagines that the post office employees have taken the money. It is the post office employees who send the cash to Lencho. However, on the other hand, Lencho supposes they have stolen his cash. He calls them crooks. Thus there is an element of irony in this situation.
14. 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
Answer: I don't think there can be any such person in reality. Lencho is proficient but he dosen't know how his letter will achieve God with no address. Moreover, he was ungrateful and a little greedy in failing to thank God in his second letter and in insisting on the balance money.
He most likely would be naïve and unquestioning.
15. There are two kinds of conflict in the story: between humans and nature, and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
Answer: The conflict between humans and nature is appeared by the decimation of Lencho's harvests by the hailstorm. As the harvests failed by hail, Lencho began feeling dismal and melancholy after the storm properly projected the contention of the nature and the man. The Story additionally demonstrated another conflict, between people themselves. The postmaster, along with the other post office employees, sent Lencho the money that they could manage to collect. They were not identified with Lencho in any way. It was a demonstration of benevolence and selflessness on their part. Despite the fact that they did a decent deed, Lencho reprimanded them for removing some amount of money. This demonstrates man does not have confidence in his fellow people, thereby offering ascend to this contention.
CHAPTER: A Long Walk to FREEDOM
TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS
1. Where did the ceremonies take place? Can you name any public buildings in India that are made of sandstone?
Answer : The ceremonies took place in the grounds of the Union Building of Pretoria in South Africa.
The Parliament House in New Delhi, the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, the Supreme Court of India in New Delhi and Madras High Court in Chennai are a few instances of Indian public buildings that are made of sandstone.
2. Can you say how 10 May is an ‘autumn day’ in South Africa?
Answer : 10 May is an 'autumn day' in South Africa on the grounds that on this day there was the largest gathering of international leaders on South African soil for the establishment of South Africa's first democratic, non-racial government.
3. At the beginning of his speech, Mandela mentions “an extraordinary human disaster”. What does he mean by this? What is the “glorious … human achievement” he speaks of at the end?
Answer: By human disaster Mandela intends to state that coloured people have endured a great deal because of segregation in the hands of whites. He considered it as incredible glorious human achievement that a black man turned into the leader of a nation where the blacks are not considered as person and are dealt with gravely.
4. What does Mandela thank the international leaders for?
Answer: Mandela felt special to be the host to the countries of the world in light of the fact that not too long ago, the South Africans were viewed as outlaws. He therefore said thanks to all the international leaders for having come to observe his inauguration as President since this occasion could be considered as a common triumph for justice, peace and human dignity.
5. What ideals does he set out for the future of South Africa?
Answer: Mandela set out the ideals of poverty alleviation, expulsion of enduring of individuals. He additionally set the ideal for a society where there would be no discrimination based on gender or racial origins.
6. What do the military generals do? How has their attitude changed, and why?
Answer: The highest military officers of the South African defence force and police saluted Mandela and pledged their loyalty.
Their frame of mind towards blacks had taken extraordinary change. Instead of capturing a black they saluted him.
7. Why were two national anthems sung?
Answer: On the day of the inauguration, two national anthems were sung, one by the whites, and the other by the blacks. This symbolized the equity/equality of blacks and whites.
37. How did the
postmaster collect money?
Answers: The postmaster collected cash by giving a part of his pay
and taking commitments from his workers.
38. Why could
the postmaster collect only 70 pesos, not 100?
Answers:It was a
demonstration of charity, so whatever sum was given by the staff at their sweet
will, he acknowledged and he additionally included some part of his salary to
the charity, however, couldn't gather 100 pesos.
39. Why did the postmaster put the signature
‘God’ on the letter?
Answers: He put the signature 'God' so that Lencho's unshaken confidence in God
did not break.
40. What unusual act was done by Lencho on the
following Sunday?
Answers: On the following Sunday, he reached post office somewhat sooner than
expected to ask if there was a letter for him.
41. Who handed
over the letter to Lencho?
Answers: The postman himself handed
over the letter to Lencho.
42. What sort
of ‘good deed’ did the postmaster perform?
Answers: The postmaster helped an individual who, if not helped by him, would
experience the ill effects of starvation.
43. Why did
Lencho not show any surprise on seeing the money?
Answers: Lencho
had such a great amount of trust in God that he demonstrated nothing unexpected
when he saw the money.
44. Why did he become angry when he counted the money?
Answers: He became angry as he got thirty pesos less than what
he had requested from God.
45. Could God have denied Lencho what he had requested Him?
Answers: No, God couldn't have denied Lencho what he had requested Him.
46. What was the help he demanded from God?
Answers: He requested a sum of one hundred pesos from God as an
exceptional help to him.
47. Why were
there much wrinkles on Lencho’s brow?
Answers: Lencho was very little taught so he needed to put pressure on his mind
to express his thoughts on the letter.
48. What did he
do when he finished the letter?
Answer: When he completed it, he stamped and placed it into
the letterbox.
49. What was
Lencho’s request regarding the amount of money?
Answer:: Lencho mentioned God to send the remaining thirty
pesos as he required them severely.
50. Were the
post office employees indeed ‘a bunch of crooks’?
Answer: No, the post office workers were liberal men as they
helped Lencho.
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
Q.1. Where was the house’
located?
Answer. 'The
House' was situated on the highest point of a low hill.
Q.2. Why
do you think it is called ‘the’ house and not ‘a house’?
Answer. It is
called 'the house' and not 'a house' since it was the only house in the whole
valley.
Q.3. Why
did Lencho keep gazing at the sky?
Answer. Lencho
continued looking at the sky since he wished for a downpour.
Q.4. How
did Lencho feel when it started raining?
Answer. Lencho
felt very cheerful.
Q.5. What
was the effect of the rain on the crops?
Answer. His
harvests were pulverized due to the downpour and the storm.
Important Long/ Detailed Answer Type
Questions- to be answered in about 100 -150 words each
Answer
the following questions in 100-120 words:
1.
Lencho received the money and a letter from God but still, he was not happy.
Was it not in his attitude to be happy with what he achieved? Did he not know
the pleasure of being grateful to others? Reflecting on the values required to
lead a happy life, explain in about 100-120 words.
Answer. Lencho had full confidence in God and consequently, had
written a letter to God requesting 100 pesos. Be that as it may, when he got
the cash and a letter from God, he was distraught. It was not his frame of mind
to be content with what he gotten, nor was he unreasonable to God. He was irate
on the grounds that he got 70 pesos rather than 100. He didn't question God for
it. He composed another letter to God soliciting him to send the rest from the
cash yet not through the mail station as they were a pack of criminals. This
demonstrates Lencho had full confidence in God and was sure that his longing
would be satisfied. It was Lencho's honest hopefulness that in the long run
prompted his getting seventy pesos. Confidence and confidence can prompt an
upbeat life.
2.
The postmaster represents such people who still believe in helping others
mention those values of the postmaster which you would like to emulate in
yourself. Write in 100-120 words.
Answer: The postmaster was a sort, liberal, supportive and
pleasant man. He got a letter from Lencho which was kept in touch with God
requesting 100 pesos so he could sow his fields once more. The mailman felt
thoughtful towards Lencho. He chose to help Lencho. He surrendered a piece of
his pay and requested that every single other representative help. Indeed, even
companions were made to contribute for a reason for philanthropy and he figured
out how to gather 70 pesos. He sent the cash to Lencho alongside an answer. He
did as such so as to safeguard the man's confidence in God. This demonstrates
the postmaster was a pleasant man at heart.
3.
“If you don’t help me, my family and I will go hungry this year.” Lencho had
faith in God but he didn’t manage to solve the problem by himself. Did he lack
the courage to resolve his matter himself? What values did he lack? Explain it
in 100-120 words.
Answer: Lencho was a
persevering farmer. He was totally needy upon the yields of his fields. His
yearly harvest was totally devastated because of heavy downpours and hailstorm.
In the whole town, there was nobody to help him during the times of financial
crisis. He had the firm faith in God and consequently composed a letter
mentioning Him to send 100 pesos so that he could sow his fields again. This
act did not demonstrate that he did not have the strength to resolve his
problem but shows that he didn't have any choice left for himself. He had firm
confidence in God. He was an ox of a man yet needed money to stand once again.
1. What did Lencho hope for?
Answer: Lencho hoped for downpours as the only thing that his field of ripe corn required was a shower.
2. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?
Answer: Lencho's crops were prepared for harvest. As raindrops would have helped in in getting a better harvest, bringing about more prosperity, so Lencho compared them with new coins.
3. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?
Answer: The rain was pouring down. But, all of a sudden, a strong wind started to blow and large hailstones started to fall alongside the downpour.
All the crops in Lencho's fields were destroyed.
4. What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped?
Answer: After hail stopped, Lencho's soul was loaded up with sadness. He could see a disheartening future for him and his family. He was concerned aboutlack of food for the coming year.
5. Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Answer: Lencho had faith in God. He believed that God's eyes see everything, even what is deep in one's soul. He wrote a letter to God saying that he required a hundred pesos to sow his field once more.
6. Who read the letter?
Answer : Postmaster read the letter.
7. What did the postmaster do then?
Answer: The Postmaster first chuckled. But, then he became serious. He was profoundly moved by the writer's faith in God. He would not like to shake this faith. So he chose to collect the cash and send it to Lencho.
8. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Answer: No. Lencho was not in any way surprised to see the letter from God with money inside it. His faith and confidence in God was such that he had anticipated that reply from God.
9. What made him angry?
Answer: When he finished counting money, he found just seventy pesos. However, he requested hundred pesos. He was sure that God could neither commit a mistake nor deny him what he had mentioned. In this way, he inferred that the post office employees must have taken the rest thirty pesos.
10. Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell you this?
Answer: 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.”
11. Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter ‘God’?
Answer: Postmaster was moved by Lencho's complete faith in the God. So, he chose to send money to Lencho. Besides, the postmaster did not have any desire to shake Lencho's faith in God. That was why, he signed the letter 'God'. It was a decent ploy to pass on a message that God had himself written the letter.
12. Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?
Answer: No, Lencho did not try to discover who had sent the money to him. This is on the grounds that he had extraordinary trust in God and never presumed that it could be another person other than God who might send him the money. His faith in God was so strong that he believed that God had sent him the money.
13. 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.]
Answer: Lencho imagines that the post office employees have taken the money. It is the post office employees who send the cash to Lencho. However, on the other hand, Lencho supposes they have stolen his cash. He calls them crooks. Thus there is an element of irony in this situation.
14. 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
Answer: I don't think there can be any such person in reality. Lencho is proficient but he dosen't know how his letter will achieve God with no address. Moreover, he was ungrateful and a little greedy in failing to thank God in his second letter and in insisting on the balance money.
He most likely would be naïve and unquestioning.
15. There are two kinds of conflict in the story: between humans and nature, and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
Answer: The conflict between humans and nature is appeared by the decimation of Lencho's harvests by the hailstorm. As the harvests failed by hail, Lencho began feeling dismal and melancholy after the storm properly projected the contention of the nature and the man. The Story additionally demonstrated another conflict, between people themselves. The postmaster, along with the other post office employees, sent Lencho the money that they could manage to collect. They were not identified with Lencho in any way. It was a demonstration of benevolence and selflessness on their part. Despite the fact that they did a decent deed, Lencho reprimanded them for removing some amount of money. This demonstrates man does not have confidence in his fellow people, thereby offering ascend to this contention.
CHAPTER: A Long Walk to FREEDOM
TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS
1. Where did the ceremonies take place? Can you name any public buildings in India that are made of sandstone?
Answer : The ceremonies took place in the grounds of the Union Building of Pretoria in South Africa.
The Parliament House in New Delhi, the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, the Supreme Court of India in New Delhi and Madras High Court in Chennai are a few instances of Indian public buildings that are made of sandstone.
2. Can you say how 10 May is an ‘autumn day’ in South Africa?
Answer : 10 May is an 'autumn day' in South Africa on the grounds that on this day there was the largest gathering of international leaders on South African soil for the establishment of South Africa's first democratic, non-racial government.
3. At the beginning of his speech, Mandela mentions “an extraordinary human disaster”. What does he mean by this? What is the “glorious … human achievement” he speaks of at the end?
Answer: By human disaster Mandela intends to state that coloured people have endured a great deal because of segregation in the hands of whites. He considered it as incredible glorious human achievement that a black man turned into the leader of a nation where the blacks are not considered as person and are dealt with gravely.
4. What does Mandela thank the international leaders for?
Answer: Mandela felt special to be the host to the countries of the world in light of the fact that not too long ago, the South Africans were viewed as outlaws. He therefore said thanks to all the international leaders for having come to observe his inauguration as President since this occasion could be considered as a common triumph for justice, peace and human dignity.
5. What ideals does he set out for the future of South Africa?
Answer: Mandela set out the ideals of poverty alleviation, expulsion of enduring of individuals. He additionally set the ideal for a society where there would be no discrimination based on gender or racial origins.
6. What do the military generals do? How has their attitude changed, and why?
Answer: The highest military officers of the South African defence force and police saluted Mandela and pledged their loyalty.
Their frame of mind towards blacks had taken extraordinary change. Instead of capturing a black they saluted him.
7. Why were two national anthems sung?
Answer: On the day of the inauguration, two national anthems were sung, one by the whites, and the other by the blacks. This symbolized the equity/equality of blacks and whites.
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