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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Three; Ravana, Valmiki, Draupadi.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Every demon, according to the storyteller, seeks what in Devi?
(a) Souls.
(b) The innocent.
(c) Blood.
(d) Immortality.

2. What god is referred to as the destroyer in Devi?
(a) Shiva.
(b) Dattatreya.
(c) Indra.
(d) Vishnu.

3. ___________ fills the tree in which Lavana lands.
(a) Birds.
(b) Monkeys.
(c) Moths.
(d) Snakes.

4. In his Sankha's first incarnation in the story Valmiki, the thief is a scholarly man who falls in love with what kind of person?
(a) An old woman.
(b) Another man.
(c) A goddess.
(d) A prostitute.

5. What assistant of Shiva's, who is deformed and dwarfish, orders Ravana to cease and desist from moving the mountain?
(a) Narada.
(b) Nirrith.
(c) Nandi.
(d) Nookambika.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the end of Chudala, Sikhi-Dhvaja claims that man's greatest guru is what?

2. What beautiful young princess does Sikhi-Dhvaja's father arrange for him to marry?

3. What are the anti-gods known as in Yayati?

4. Who is the presiding god of wisdom and acumen in Yayati?

5. In the story Devi, Mahisha claims that no woman has weapons other than ______________.

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