CBSE Class 10 English A Letter to God MCQs

Question : The postmaster to help lencho by giving him ——- as a reply from God.
(a) Money
(b) Crops
(c) Letter
(d) Gold

Answer :   A

Question : What is the irony in this lesson?
(a) Lencho was sad after the hailstorm even though he was the one waiting for a shower
(b) Postmaster laughed at Lencho but still helped arrange money for him
(c) Lencho blamed the post office employees who in fact helped him
(d) there is no irony

Answer :  C

Question : Where was Lencho’s house situated?
(a) bottom of the hill
(b) top of a hill
(c) top of a plateau
(d) in a city

Answer :   B

Question : What did Lencho hope for ?
(a) A good shower of rain for his crop.
(b) A new motorcycle
(c) A tractor
(d) None of the Above

Answer :   A

Question : Where was Lencho’s house situated?
(a) bottom of the hill
(b) top of a hill
(c) top of a plateau
(d) in a city

Answer :  B

Question : The story sets in –
(a) Latin America
(b) Australia
(c) Europe
(d) Africa

Answer :   A

Question : The postman at the post office laughed because :
(a) he received a parcel
(b) he had irritation
(c) the postman said something
(d) the letter was addressed ‘To God’

Answer :  D

Question : What was the only thing that the Earth needed according to Lencho?
(a) a shower
(b) a snowfall
(c) strong winds
(d) sunlight

Answer :   A 

Question : Lencho started writing a letter to god on –
(a) Monday morning
(b) Sunday morning
(c) Saturday morning
(d) Sunday afternoon

Answer :  B

Question : The field of corn dotted with flowers means that
(a) not a single flower was bigger than a dot
(b) the flowers were scattered across.
(c) the flowers were in shaped like dots.
(d) the flowers had shrunk in size.

Answer :   B

Question : What did Lencho hope for?
(a) A good shower of rain for his crop.
(b) A new motorcycle
(c) A tractor
(d) None of the Above

Answer :  A

Question : Why did Lencho need money?
(a) To buy a tractor
(B) To save his family from hunger
(C) To buy a new phone.
(D) To buy a buffalo.

Answer :  B

Question : Who does Lencho have complete faith in?
(a) His Wife
(b) The Postmaster
(c) One of the farmer
(d) The God

Answer :  D

Question : Which crop was growing on Lencho’s fields?
(a) Corn
(b) Barley
(c) Rice
(d) None of the above

Answer :  A

Question : How did Lencho decide to contact his last resort?
(a) by visiting them personally
(b) through a letter
(c) through e-mail
(d) through fax

Answer :  B

Question : The field looked as if it were covered in _.
(a) salt
(b) locusts
(c) sugar
(d) ice 

Answer :  A

Question : How much money was the postmaster able to arrange?
(a) 100 pesos
(b) Nil
(c) 1000 pesos
(d) 70 pesos

Answer :  D

Question : Why did the postmaster decide to reply to Lencho’s letter?
(a) he was a good man
(b) he felt empathetic
(c) to preserve Lencho’s faith in God
(d) all of the above

Answer :  C

Question : Lencho was exchanging the letter through with God.
(a) Rail
(b) A good friend
(c) Dove
(d) Computer internet

Answer :  A

Question : Why was Lencho not surprised on seeing the money in the envelope?
(a) he was too sad to acknowledge it
(b) he had unwavering faith in God
(c) he was an ungrateful man
(d) none of the above

Answer :  B

Question : How much money doe the Lencho need?
(a) Fifty Pesos
(b) Hundred Pesos
(c) Two Hundred Pesos
(d) Five Hundred Pesos.

Answer :  B

Question : From the top of the hill he can see his ready to harvest cornfield along with –
(a) Forest
(b) Village
(c) River
(d) Vast field

Answer :    C

Question : How much money did Lencho ask for?
(a) 100 pesos
(b) 1000 pesos
(c) 10 pesos
(d) 500 pesos

Answer :  A

Question : Lencho’s letter included
(a) details of his problems.
(b) description of the post office.
(c) belief of being looted.
(d) List of further demands.

Answer :   D

Question : Lencho’s hopes were belied because:
(a) the sunlight was enough
(b) the rain was still going on
(c) the hail lasted for an hour
(d) the children were unsuccessful

Answer :  C

Question : The field looked as if it were covered in _______.
(a) salt
(b) locusts
(c) sugar
(d) ice

Answer :  C

Question : On seeing the letter, the postmaster was moved by Lencho’s __
(a) unwavering faith
(b) handwriting
(c) love for God
(d) determination

Answer :  A

Question : Who is the author of A Letter to God?
(a) Ruskin Bond
(b) James Herriot
(c) H.G. Wells
(d) G.L. Fuentes

Answer :  D

Question : Find the word from the extract which means ‘very closely’.
(a) Promisingly
(b) Entire
(c) Intimately
(d) Towards

Answer :  C

Question : Who is the author of the lesson ‘A Letter to God’?
(a) G.L. Fuentes
(b) J.k. Rowling
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Roald Dahl

Answer :  A

Question : What is the irony in this lesson?
(a) Lencho was sad after the hailstorm even though he was the one waiting for a shower
(b) Postmaster laughed at Lencho but still helped arrange money for him
(c) Lencho blamed the post office employees who in fact helped him
(d) there is no irony

Answer :  C

Question : Where did Lencho expect the downpour to come from?
(a) north
(b) north-east
(c) north-west
(d) south-east

Answer :  B

Question : Large droplets were equivalent to –
(a) Five cents coin
(b) One cent coin
(c) Ten cents coin
(d) Two cent coin

Answer :  C

Question : Why was Lencho not surprised on seeing the money in the envelope?
(a) he was too sad to acknowledge it
(b) he had unwavering faith in God
(c) he was an ungrateful man
(d) none of the above

Answer :  B

Question : Which literary device has been used in ‘They are new coins’?
(a) Simile
(b) Metaphor
(c) Personification
(d) Alliteration

Answer :  B

Question : Why did the postmaster decide to reply to Lencho’s letter?
(a) he was a good man
(b) he felt empathetic
(c) to preserve Lencho’s faith in God
(d) all of the above

Answer :  C

Question : What do you mean by huge mountains of clouds?
(a) Very high clouds
(b) Very dark clouds
(c) Clouds promising heavy rains
(d) Clouds making hilly pattern

Answer :  C

INTRODUCTION—

‘A Letter to God’ is a story of extreme faith in God. A natural calamity leaves Lencho, a hard-working farmer, in distress. The farmer writes a letter to God asking him to send money. The chapter concludes in a very ironic situation.

SUMMARY—

Lencho was a poor but hardworking farmer. His house was on the top of a hill and that was the only house in the valley. He hoped for a good crop, but his fields needed rain or at least a shower. He waited for the rain and it did come. One day, it started drizzling. In the beginning, Lencho felt the falling rain drops as ‘new silver coins’ falling from the sky. But gradually, the rain transformed into a hail storm. The hailstones fell for an hour. It destroyed his crop completely. Lencho’s soul was filled with sadness. He thought that they would go hungry the whole year unless they found someone who could help them.
Suddenly his heart was filled with hope. He had firm faith in God. Lencho knew how to read and write.
The following Sunday, he wrote a letter to God mentioning his destroyed crop and asked him for money so that he could sow his field again. Then he put the letter in an envelope, addressed it to ‘God’ and went to the post office. He affixed a stamp on it and dropped it in the mail-box.
The postman, who took the letter out of the mail-box saw the letter and showed it to the postmaster.
Everyone in the post office had a hearty laugh. But immediately the postmaster realised the man’s predicament and unshakable faith in God. He decided to help the man. He discussed with his colleagues and all of them decided to part with some money for an act of charity. They collected money, put it in an envelope and addressed it to Lencho. This letter contained a single word in the form of a signature : God.
The next Sunday, Lencho went to the post office. The postmaster handed him the letter. Lencho was not at all surprised on receiving a letter from God. He had unshakable faith that God would reply in the form of money and he did receive it. He opened the envelope but became angry on counting the money.
There were only seventy pesos in the envelope, whereas he had asked for one hundred. He knew God could not have made a mistake. Immediately, he wrote another letter to God, put it in the mail-box and went out.
The postmaster took out the letter from the mail-box and opened it. Lencho had requested God to send the rest of the money i.e., thirty pesos as he had received only seventy pesos. Lencho had a feeling that the people at the post office had cheated him by taking out some money from God’s envelope. So, he wrote that God should not send money through mail as according to him, the post office employees were a bunch of crooks.

Extract Based Questions

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :

In the north-east, huge mountains of clouds could be seen approaching. The air was fresh and sweet. The man went out for no other reason than to have the pleasure of feeling the rain on his body, and when he returned he exclaimed, “These aren’t raindrops falling from the sky, they are new coins. The big drops are ten cent pieces and the little ones are fives.”

(a) Why did Lencho go out in the rain?
(a) to have the pleasure of feeling the rain on his body.
(b) to bathe in the rain.
(c) to collect his corns.
(d) to cover the roof of his house.

Answer : A

(b) Lencho compared the rain drops to new coins because
(a) they were round in shape.
(b) good rain means good money.
(c) Both (i) and (ii)
(d) they were as hard as coins.

Answer : C

(c) Which word in the extract means the same as ‘coming closer’?
(a) mountains of clouds
(b) falling
(c) went out
(d) approaching

Answer : D

(d) What are the raindrops compared to?
(a) clouds
(b) fresh air
(c) new coins
(d) big drops

Answer : C

The following Sunday, Lencho came a bit earlier than usual to ask if there was a letter for him. It was the postman himself who handed the letter to him while the postmaster, experiencing the contentment of a man who has performed a good deed, looked on from his office. Lencho showed not the slightest surprise on seeing the money; such was his confidence – but he became angry when he counted the money. God could not have made a mistake, not could he have denied Lencho what he had requested.

(a) Was Lencho surprised on seeing the money?
(a) a little
(b) not at all
(c) very much
(d) a sort of

Answer : B

(b) Lencho didn’t get 100 pesos from God, it was only __________.
(a) Eighty pesos
(b) Fifty pesos
(c) Seventy pesos
(d) Sixty pesos

Answer : C

(c) Lencho’s belief in God was __________.
(a) strong
(b) weak
(c) somewhat strong
(d) very weak

Answer : A

(d) Who handed the letter to Lencho?
(a) The Post master
(b) The Clerk
(c) The Postman
(d) Stranger

Answer : C

“God,” he wrote. “If you don’t help me, my family and I will go hungry this year. I need a hundred pesos in order to sow my field again and to live until the crop comes, because the hail storm.....”

(a) Who is ‘he’ ?
(a) Postmaster
(b) God
(c) Lencho
(d) None

Answer : C

(b) Why did the speaker need money?
(a) to save his family from hunger
(b) to save his land
(c) to buy a plough
(d) to repay his loans

Answer : A

(c) How much money, did the speaker need?
(a) Five hundred pesos
(b) Four hundred pesos
(c) Two hundred pesos
(d) One hundred pesos

Answer : D

(d) Who is ‘you’ in the passage?
(a) Post-master
(b) Lencho
(c) God
(d) Post-office staff

Answer : C



With a satisfied expressions he regarded the field of ripe corn with its flowers, draped in a curtain of rain.
But suddenly a strong wind began to blow and along with the rain very large hailstones began to fall. 

(a) Who was satisfied ?
(a) Lencho
(b) Postmaster
(c) God
(d) None

Answer : A

(b) Why was he satisfied ?
(a) to see his crops.
(b) to see the letter from God.
(c) to see the rain falling.
(d) to see the new coins.

Answer : A

(c) Which word in the extract means the same as ‘covered’ ?
(a) to cover
(b) curtain
(c) draped
(d) ripe

Answer : C

(d) Suddenly ___________ began to fall.
(a) rain drops
(b) snow
(c) large hailstones
(d) snow flakes

Answer : C

So, in order to not to shake the writer’s faith in God, the postmaster came up with an idea : answer the letter.
But when he opened it, it was evident that to answer it, he needed something more than good will, ink and paper. But he stuck to his resolution : He asked money from his employees. 

(a) Who decided to answer the letter ?
(a) The clerk
(b) The Post office employees
(c) God
(d) The Postmaster

Answer : D

(b) The Post master sought whose help to contribute money?
(a) God
(b) The visitors
(c) The Government
(d) Post office employees

Answer : D

(c) Which word in the extract means the same as ‘firm decision’ ?
(a) evident
(b) resolution
(c) right decision
(d) perfect decision

Answer : B

(d) Who is ‘he’ in the passage ?
(a) Clerk
(b) Lencho
(c) Post-master
(d) God

Answer : C

The moment the letter fell into the mail box, the post master went to open it. 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. But don’t send it to me through the mail because the post office employees are a bunch of crooks.

(a) What did Lencho mean by the ‘rest’?
(a) Fifty pesos
(b) Forty pesos
(c) Thirty pesos
(d) Twenty pesos

Answer : C

(b) Who was in Lencho’s mind when he was writing the letter?
(a) The Post-office staff
(b) God
(c) His friend
(d) His neigbour

Answer : B

(c) Find out a word opposite of ‘honest’ from the passage.
(a) Unhonest
(b) Dishonest
(c) Cheats
(d) Crooks

Answer : D

(d) Who are denoted as a bunch of crooks?
(a) Visitors
(b) Post office employees
(c) Cleaners of the Post-office
(d) Passers-by

Answer : B