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Question I:

1.     What is the snake trying to escape from?

2.     Is it a harmful snake? What is its colour?

3.     The poet finds the snake beautiful. Find the words he uses to convey its beau ty.

4.     What does the poet wish for the snake?

5.     Where was the snake before anyon e saw it and chased it away? Where does the snake disappea r?

Answer I:

1.                 The snake is trying to escape from a stick. He was afraid of the stick lest it should kill or hurt him.

2.                 No, it isn't a harmful snake. It is of a small size which and it is harmless even to the children. The snake is of green colour.

3.                 The poet uses the words "beautiful" and "graceful" to convey the snake's beau ty.

4.                 The poet wishes that nobody should harm the snake. He wants it to go over the water into the reeds and hide somewhere.

5.                 The snake was lying still on the sand unless someone saw it and again made it move away from there. The person chased it away and it disappea red into the ripples of the water among the green reeds to hide there.

Question II:

1.                 Fin d out as much as you can about different kinds of snakes (from books in the library, or from the Internet). Are they all poisonous? Find out the names of some poisonous snakes.

2.                 Look for information on how to find out whether a snake is harmful.

3.                 As you know, from the previous lesson you have just read, there are people in our country who have traditional knowledge about snakes, who even catch poisonous snakes with practically bare hands. Can you find out something more about them?

Answer II:

1.                 No, all snakes are not poisonous. Some of the poisonous snakes are Indian Cobra, King Cobra, Copperhead, Common Krait, Mamushi and Saw-scaled Viper.

2.                 All the snakes are not poiso nous. The water snakes are generally without poison but most of the desert snakes are poisonous. Information about a poisonous snake can only be known when its poison effects the body. The poison reach on us and effected our nervous system.

3.                 This is quite correct that SAPERAs catch the poisonous snakes with bare hands and the nearly mitigate the effect of poison using the herbs. In this area, the snakes are mostly visible during the monsoon. During this peri od the snake may bite a person. The victim is treated and saved with the help of local medicines and herbs.