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3. What is Lakshmikutty’s dream?
4. Why does Lakshmikutty say, “To live in the forest, you need courage”?

B Choose the correct answer. (4 × 1 = 4 marks)

1. What does ‘practitioner’ (para 1) mean?

a. one who is an expert b. one who is an amateur

c. one who practises something d. one who follows something
2. What does ‘persistence’ (para 2) mean?

a. perseverance b. weakness c. laziness d. indifference
3. What does ‘midwife’ (para 4) mean?

a. one who is not the first or last wife b. one who aids in childbirth
c. one who is a marriage counsellor d. one who is a doctor

4. What does ‘septuagenarian’ (para 9) mean?
a. one who is born in September

b. one who is between 70 and 79 years of age
c. one who has septicaemia

d. one who has seven siblings

A. 1. Lakshmikutty was special because she was the only tribal girl from her village to attend school in the 1950s.
2. Lakshmikutty’s mother was a midwife. She passed on all her knowledge of herbal medicine to her daughter.
3. Lakshmikutty’s dream is to convert her humble hut into a small hospital, where patients requiring long-term
treatment can stay and be treated till they are fully healthy.
4. Lakshmikutty has faced all kinds of problems while living in the forest. She had to fight for her education
and even now she spends her time treating injuries, snakebites and diseases using only herbal medicine.
Therefore, she says, “To live in the forest, you need courage.”
B. 1. c. one who practises something 2. a. perseverance 3. b. one who aids in childbirth
4. b. one who is between 70 and 79 years of age

2. the indian purple frog

1. In India’s Western Ghats, scientists recently slopes of the Ghats. Both purple frogs are
discovered a second species of one of the quite similar in appearance – they both
rarest kinds of frogs in the world – the have shiny, purple skin, a light blue ring
purple frog. The closest relatives of these around their eyes, and a pointy pig-nose.
frogs are found in the Seychelles islands in They can be told apart only by analysis in
the Indian Ocean. a laboratory, which would reveal that their
bone structure is different from each other.
2. The first species of the Indian purple frog
was discovered on the western slopes of the 3. The new species has been named
Western Ghats in 2003. The second species Bhupathy’s purple frog, in honour of
was also discovered in the Western Ghats, Dr Subramaniam Bhupathy, a respected
except that this one lives on the eastern herpetologist.

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