CBSE Class 10 English Chapter 1 A Letter to God 2 marks Questions with Answers from First Flight Book
In this post we have provided 2 marks Questions (Short Answer Questions) from A Letter to God, CBSE Class 10 English First Flight Book Chapter 1. We have also included previous years’ board exam questions (with exam years indicated in brackets) to help you revise efficiently and score high in your exams.
A Letter to God 2 marks Questions Answers
Q1. What are the raindrops compared to and why? (CBSE 2011)
Ans: Raindrops are compared to new coins-ten-cent and five cent pieces. It is because they promised a good harvest and as such good money.
Q2. How was Lencho sure that it was going to rain?
Ans: Lencho knew his fields intimately and he could predict the weather by looking at the sky. His experienced eyes saw clouds and he predicted rain.
Q3. What promised a good harvest?
Ans: Lencho felt that the field of ripe corn dotted with flowers always promised a good harvest. That is why he was anticipating a good harvest.
Q4. How did Lencho’s prediction about rain come true?
Ans: Lencho had looked towards the north east and remarked that they would get some water. His prediction came true when it started raining in the evening.
Q5. Why did Lencho go out?
Ans: Lencho was eagerly awaiting for the rain which could be good for his crops. So he went out to have the pleasure of feeling the rain on his body.
Q6. How did Lencho regard his field? Why?
Ans: When it started raining Lencho regarded his field with satisfaction. He was happy to see his crop draped in a curtain of rain. He hoped to reap a good harvest.
Q7. “It’s really getting bad now.” What was getting bad and how?
Ans: Lencho was happy when it started raining. But the rain and the weather were getting bad. A strong wind was blowing and hailstones were falling.
Q8. Why was Lencho’s soul filled with sorrow?
Ans: The hail and hailstones rained on the valley for an hour and it had left the field totally covered with snow. The crop was completely destroyed. It made Lencho’s soul filled with sorrow.
Q9. Why was the family not really upset?
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People get support from family and friends during bad times. How does Lencho’s family behave after the harvest is ruined? (CBSE QUESTION BANK)
Ans: Though Lencho’s family was facing ruin, yet they were not really upset it was because having immense faith in God, they were confident that God would help them.
Q10. Why did the postmaster send a reply to Lencho’s first letter addressed to God?
Ans: The postmaster was a generous and amiable man. He was impressed by Lencho’s firm faith in God. To sustain that faith, the postmaster sent a reply to Lencho.
Q11. Why was Lencho angry when he received the letter?
Ans: The postmaster could raise only 70 pesos which he sent to Lencho, supposedly from God. Lencho was angry to find 30 pesos less than the amount he asked for. He was angry because he thought the post office employees had kept 30 pesos sent to him by God.
Q12. How was Lencho helped?
Ans: The postmaster, a kind-hearted and generous man, read Lencho’s letter addressed to God To sustain his; faith, the postmaster raised money from friends and colleagues and sent it to Lencho, in the name of God.
Q13. Do you think the post office employees were ‘a bunch of crooks’?
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Explain the qualities of the post office employees. (CBSE SQP 2018-19)
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Why would you not agree with Lencho calling them a ‘a bunch of crooks’? (CBSE SQP 2018-19)
Ans: No, they were kind, generous and helpful persons. The postmaster contributed a part of his salary and motivated his friends and colleagues for a charitable cause. So they were not a bunch of crooks.
Q14. How would you describe Lencho?
Ans: Lencho was a simple, naive and hard-working farmer. He was not only energetic, he had full faith in God also. He became a victim of natural calamity, before God helped him indirectly.
Q15. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like new coins?
Ans: Lencho said that the raindrops were like new coins. It was because the raindrops could cause a good harvest that his field needed most. Thus he would get a rich crop Further the raindrops had a brightness like new coins.
Q16. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?
Ans: The rain changed into heavy hailstone. In no time the whole valley was covered with hailstones. His fields. became white as if covered with salt. His com was totally destroyed.
Q17. What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped?
Ans: When the hail stopped, Lencho’s soul was filled with sadness: He was very much troubled. His crop was totally destroyed. He said, “The hail has left nothing. This year we will have no com. We will all go hungry.”
Q18. Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
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Lencho did not bother exploring any other means to resolve his situation but just turned to God. Do you feel that his approach was justified? Why/Why not? (CBSE QUESTION BANK)
Ans: Lencho had deep faith in God. He believed that God would help them all. No one would die of hunger as He sees everything. Lencho decided to write a letter to God.
Q19. Who read the letter?
Ans: The postman and the postmaster read the letter.
Q20. What did the postmaster do then?
Ans: The postmaster burst into laughter on seeing the deep faith of Lencho in God. He collected money from his employees. He even gave part of his salary. He put all the money in an envelope addressed to Lencho and wrote a letter containing a single word “God”.
Q21. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Ans: Lencho was not at all surprised to find a letter with money in it because he had immense faith in God.
Q22. What made him angry?
Ans: Lencho was angry at counting the money since it was less than the amount he had asked for. He had deep faith that God could neither make a mistake nor could deny what was requested.
Q23. Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter “God”?
Ans: The postmaster was a very generous fellow, in order not to shake Lencho’s faith in God, he collected money. and sent it to Lencho. The postmaster signed the letter “God”, lest Lencho should think that the money had not been sent by God.
Q24. Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/why not?
Ans: Lencho was a simple-minded person. He had firm faith in God. So he did not try to find out who had sent the money. He was of the view that the money was sent by God and none else could do such an act.
Q25. Name the author of the lesson ‘A Letter to God’.
Ans: The author of the lesson ‘A Letter to God’ is G.L. Fuentes.
Q26. Lencho’s last letter to God depicts astute faith on one level and irony on the other. Bring about the element of faith and irony in the situation. (CBSE 2026)
Ans. Faith: Lencho is sure God cannot err, so he asks Him to send the missing 30 pesos. Irony: he asks God not to use the post, calling its employees crooks, though those very employees had raised the 70 pesos out of kindness. He thanks no one and blames his helpers.
Q27. Explain the irony in Lencho blaming the postmaster for stealing money. (CBSE 2026)
Ans. Irony lies in the opposite of what is expected. The postmaster and his staff gave Lencho money from their own pockets to keep his faith alive. Yet Lencho suspects them of keeping the other 30 pesos, so the people who helped him are accused of theft.
Conclusion
Practising these 2-mark questions will help you answer short, to-the-point questions on “A Letter to God” accurately and quickly. Revise the key facts about Lencho, his faith, and the post office employees, and you’ll be well prepared for the board exam.
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