What damaged the crop in Lencho's field?

Concept

In a reading-comprehension question, the cause of an event must be identified from the passage's explicit sequence, not from a generally possible cause.

Weather damage is distinguished by its agent and manner: drought is a prolonged lack of rain, flood is excess water, and hail is the impact of frozen precipitation.

Application

In A Letter to God, rain is followed by large hailstones. They fall across the field, cover it, and leave Lencho's crop destroyed.

Contrast

• Wild animals would cause grazing or trampling, which the episode does not describe.

• A flood would involve overflowing or standing water over the crop, which is not the narrated event.

• A drought develops through a prolonged shortage of rain, whereas this episode begins with rainfall.

Cross-check

The field is described as white, as if covered with salt, and the plants are stripped after the storm. Those details are consistent with a hailstorm.

Result

Therefore, hailstones damaged the crop in Lencho's field.