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A Letter to God: CBSE Class 10 English practice questions

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In the listening activity, why does Jaya say sorry to Arti?

A drizzle outside a window while someone writes a letter at a desk
  1. She forgot Arti's birthday
  2. She lost Arti's address
  3. She has not written for a very long time
  4. She cannot visit Bangalore
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C. She has not written for a very long time

Jaya says, "I'm sorry I haven't written for a very long time." She had last sent a birthday card in September 2005, so she did not forget the birthday.

Lencho cried, "These aren't raindrops falling from the sky, they are new coins." Why did he compare the rain to coins?

Big and small raindrops falling like coins on a happy farmer
  1. The drops were made of shining silver
  2. The rain meant a good harvest, so every drop seemed as valuable as money to him
  3. He wanted to pay the boys with them
  4. The drops were so heavy that they rang on the roof
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B. The rain meant a good harvest, so every drop seemed as valuable as money to him

The big drops were "ten cent pieces" and the small ones "fives". Rain would save his crop and so it was as precious as money. The comparison is a metaphor about value; the drops were not really metal. It is the later hailstones that "resemble new silver coins".

After the storm Lencho said to his sons, "A plague of locusts would have left more than this." What does he mean?

A swarm of locusts on one side and a hailstorm on the other
  1. Locusts had already eaten half the corn before the hail came
  2. He is glad that locusts did not arrive as well
  3. He thinks locusts are less dangerous than rain
  4. The hail did more damage to the crop than even a swarm of locusts would have done
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D. The hail did more damage to the crop than even a swarm of locusts would have done

Locusts "fly in big swarms and destroy crops", yet he says even they would have left something. The hail "has left nothing", so it was worse. He is not saying locusts came, nor that he is relieved. Note the exaggeration used to show his despair.

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