Important Questions for Class 10 His First Flight Ch 1 A Letter to God
Question 1:
Read the given extracts and answer the quesions:
“Don’t be so upset, even though this seems like a total loss. Remember, no one dies of hunger.”
“That’s what they say: no one dies of hunger.”
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. Lencho was an ox of a man, working like an animal in the fields, but still he knew how to write. The following Sunday, at daybreak, he began to write a letter which he himself would carry to town and place in the mail. It was nothing less than a letter to God
(i) “No one dies of hunger”. What does Lencho mean by this sentence?
(ii) Based on the extract, describe why did Lencho write a letter to God? Answer in 40 words.
(iii) Provide a line/phrase from the extract that justifies why the following statement is FALSE.
Lencho had no hope left now.
(iv) Mention one word/phrase that can correctly replace ‘conscience’ in the following sentence, taken from the extract.
the help of God, whose eyes, as he had been instructed, see everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience.
