Direction: Read the following excerpt and answer the questions asked at the end. The answers to the questions should be based on the excerpt. 
Even today, people in the countryside are alive to the Neem’s versatile virtues. It is seldom cut down and is still planted in and around human settlements. Tradition decrees that, when the Indian new year comes around about midsummer (in april) and the neem bursts into prodigal, fragrant while blossom, its tiny flowers mixed with jaggery should be cooked into a special side dish, both as a tonic relish to mark the commencement of fresh air, and to remind people that life is an admixture of sweet and bitter experiences, the latter sentiment seems largely imaginative, for neem flowers are not bitter, through the leaves and fruits are. They have a characteristic resinous aroma and are mildly astringent.