Answer these questions in one or two sentences each. (The paragraph numbers within brackets provide clues to the answers)

Give an example to show that even as a young girl Santosh was not ready to accept anything unreasonable. (Para 2)

Santosh as a young girl was not ready to accept anything unreasonable and from the very beginning, lived life on her own terms and conditions. The instance where in other girls wore traditional dresses while Santosh preferred shorts throws light on her free-spirited attitude towards the conventional conceptions of life.


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