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Question
What must have been called as the ‘drinking straws’ by the poet?
Options
Plastic pipes to drink juices
Twigs of the trees in bushes
Proboscis of the insects
The straw that the poet carrier with himself to drink river water.
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Solution
Proboscis of the insects
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