English Literature : Class 10th

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Q1. Read the following statements with reference to ‘A Letter to God’ and choose the correct option :
 Statement 1 : The house in which Lencho was living was in the middle of a populous town.
 Statement 2 : Lencho was a good farmer.

Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true

Option:
 (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false
 (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true
 (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true
 (D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are falseStatements:

Reason:

• Lencho’s house was on the top of a low hill, overlooking the valley, not in a populous town.


• Lencho is described as “an ox of a man, working like an animal in the fields,” showing he was a good and hardworking farmer.

Q2. “I hope it passes quickly.” It did not pass quickly. What is the ‘it’ referred to?

Option: (A) A pack of wolves  (B) A swarm of locusts  (C) The hailstorm  (D) The storm of dust

Answer: (C) The hailstorm

Reason:
Lencho hoped that the hailstorm would pass quickly, but it continued for an hour and destroyed the crops completely.

Note: “It was during the meal, as Lencho had predicted: big drops of rain began to fall... But suddenly a strong wind began to blow and along with the rain very large hailstones began to fall.”

Q3. What was Lencho’s immediate response when he ‘received the letter from God’?

Option:

(A) He began shouting at the postmaster

(B) He was not surprised but very angry

(C) He began laughing with joy

(D) He was sad and silent

Answer: (B) He was not surprised but very angry God’?

Reason:
Lencho had complete faith that God would send him money. When he received less than he asked for, he became angry, thinking that the post office employees had stolen the rest.

Note: “Lencho became angry when he counted the money… ‘God could not have made a mistake, nor could he have denied Lencho what he had requested.’”

Q4. On that lovely autumn day, I was accompanied by my _____ Zenani. 

Option: (A) aunt  (B) mother  (C) wife  (D) daughter

Answer: (D) daughter

Reason:
Nelson Mandela mentioned that on the day of his inauguration as President, he was accompanied by his daughter Zenani.

Note: “On that lovely autumn day I was accompanied by my daughter Zenani.”

Q5. “The day was symbolised for me by the playing of our two national anthems.” What was the occasion when two national anthems were being played?

Option:

(A) It was the swearing in ceremony of Mandela

(B) It was the opening of the World Peace Day

(C) It was the International Day of Games

(D) It was South Africa’s New Year’s Day

Answer: (A) It was the swearing-in ceremony of Mandela

Reason:
At Mandela’s presidential swearing-in ceremony, both the old (whites’) and the new (blacks’) national anthems of South Africa were played as a symbol of unity and reconciliation.

Note: “The day was symbolised for me by the playing of our two national anthems.”