'WHERE LOVE IS, GOD IS….....'
BY LEO TOLSTOY
(YOU ARE FREE TO RE-FRAME THE ANSWERS IN YOUR OWN WORDS AND DON’T FORGET TO REMOVE THE BRACKETS)
1.Who was Martin Avdeiteh? (He was a cobbler, who had plenty to do, for he worked
very well and used good material.)
2.Why did Martin stop going to church? (Because after everyone he cared for died,
he stopped believing in God.)
3.What kind of life did he live? (He lived a very miserable life in the sense that all
his children and wife had died.)
4.Why did Martin keep looking out of his window that day? (Because he was waiting for the
person whose voice he had heard the day before to come and meet him.)
5.What was the mental state of Martin? (He was very sad and depressed. In his old age
he had no will to live and he was hoping that soon he may die too.)
6.What advice did he get from old pilgrim? (The old man told him that he had no right to
wish for his death. He should live for God as God gives life to us and wants us to live
for him. The way will be shown by the Christ.)
7.How did Martin’s life change? (His whole life changed when he bought an old Testament
in large print. He read it every night and he realized how he might live for God.)
8.Why did Martin invite the woman with the baby inside? (The woman was carrying
her baby. She was shabbily and sparsely dressed. On a very cold windy day, she did
not have anything to wrap her baby around and the baby was crying, probably because
of hunger. Seeing their plight Martin invited them inside)
9.What did Martin say when Stepanitch asked, are you expecting anyone?”(He said he did
not really expect anyone but he had heard something last night that he could not get
out of his mind. While reading the Gospel he had heard someone call his name and
whisper to him, “Expect me. I will come tomorrow”)
10. How did Martin convince the apple woman to pardon the boy? (He told her that
God’s way is more kind. God would not want the boy to be whipped. If the boy should
be whipped for stealing the apple, what should be done to us for our sins?”
11.What did the boy do later to the woman?(Later the boy offered to help her
by carrying her sack for her.)
12.Why Martin’s soul did grow glad? (The soul grew glad, when he realized that
the people who he had helped the day before were all messengers of God. He realized that
all the good deeds that he did the day before was in fact done for the God.)
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