Madhya Pradesh Board Class 10 English — Flashcards for Quick Revision

A: Lencho is the farmer protagonist of A Letter to God. He owns the only house in the valley on the crest of a low hill. He depends completely on his crops and has strong faith in God.

A: Lencho hopes for rain. He watches the sky towards the north-east because his field needs a downpour or at least a shower.

A: Lencho is pleased to see the rain because it can save his crop. He calls the drops new coins to show that rain is precious for a farmer and brings hope of a good harvest.

A: Tricki is ill because he is overfed and gets no proper exercise. Mrs Pumphrey gives him too many extras such as malt, cod-liver oil, Horlicks, cream cakes, and chocolates, so he becomes fat, weak, and

A: Tricki is a small pampered dog belonging to Mrs Pumphrey. He is overfed, neglected in terms of exercise, and later becomes fit again after hospitalisation with the narrator's other dogs.

A: Mrs Pumphrey is Tricki’s rich and doting mistress. She loves him deeply, but her excessive care and overfeeding harm his health instead of helping it.

A: Nelson Mandela’s inauguration as South Africa’s first black President after democratic elections in 1994. It marks the start of a new democratic era in the country.

A: Apartheid was a political system that separated people according to race. It created racial domination and kept black people under unfair rule in South Africa.

A: Mandela’s ANC party won 252 of the 400 seats in South Africa’s first democratic elections. This helped him become the country’s first black President.