Read the following passages and answer the questions given after them:

Twelve-year-old Manu is woken up at four in the morning by her father, Radheshyam. She does not go to school but goes to collect shellfish, and small mollusks in the mangrove swamps on the island of Sundarban delta, West Bengal.

In the rush to get to work, Manu does not take time to eat breakfast. It is more important to make sure she has the things she needs to make it through a workday, which can mean spending up to 14 hours in the mud. These items include about a dozen cigars and at least four pills to keep her from falling asleep. A good part of the money that she earns goes to buy these things.

In the mangrove swamp without shoes, Manu has to face bad weather, mosquito bites, and cuts and scrapes from having to pull the shellfish out from deep in the mud. The cigars help to repel the mosquitoes, but when she runs out of cigars Manu has to put up with the insects as she moves from branch to branch and from one area to another in search of shells. When she returns from work, her body is nearly always covered with bites.

She earns very little. If she is lucky, one day Manu manages to collect two baskets of shellfish (150 shells), worth a little more than 450 rupees. Manu, who has seven younger brothers and sisters, has no time to go to school or play with other children. Anyway, she prefers not to play with other children because they say she smells bad and exclude her from their games for being a shellfish worker.

Little by little, Manu has lost her self-esteem. Like the other children who work collecting shellfish, she feels separate from the rest of society. For Manu, life seems like a tunnel with no exit.