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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the goddess Devi wear?
(a) Green robes.
(b) Silver rings.
(c) Gold necklaces.
(d) Red robes.

2. What demon asks the creator that he may continue to live unless a woman appears who is capable of killing him in a fight in Devi?
(a) Kali.
(b) Pishacha.
(c) Mahishasura.
(d) Andhaka.

3. Mahisha intends to make the goddess Devi __________.
(a) An advisor.
(b) A slave.
(c) His mistress.
(d) His queen.

4. Kumbha claims that the curse put on him makes him turn into ___________ every night.
(a) A bat.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A snake.
(d) A woman.

5. What forces Lavana's family to move from their home in the magical world in Lavana?
(a) A famine.
(b) A flood.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A fire.

6. In the end of Chudala, Sikhi-Dhvaja claims that man's greatest guru is what?
(a) His mother.
(b) His first born son.
(c) His wife.
(d) His father.

7. The goddess Devi sends word that she wants Mahisha to either come and face her, or return where?
(a) The netherworld.
(b) To her mother.
(c) The forest.
(d) Home.

8. What ruler of the gods does Mahisha taunt endlessly in Devi?
(a) Dattatreya.
(b) Shiva.
(c) Vishnu.
(d) Indra.

9. What great sage is master of the Sanjivini mantra in Yayati?
(a) Kacha.
(b) Brihaspati.
(c) Sukracharya.
(d) Devayani.

10. What does the goddess Devi ride upon?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A buffalo.
(d) A lion.

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

12. What Sanskrit word refers to a "seer" to whom the Vedas were "originally revealed" through states of higher consciousness?
(a) Aagatavaan.
(b) Ekaakii.
(c) Etaavaan.
(d) Rishi.

13. Whose ambition it is to enter heaven in his earthly form in Viswamitra?
(a) Lavana.
(b) Trisanku.
(c) Chedi.
(d) Indra.

14. What form does Mahisha take to meet the goddess Devi?
(a) Snake.
(b) God.
(c) Demon.
(d) Human.

15. In Chudala, Sikhi-Dhvaja is a young prince who is interested in nothing but ______________.
(a) Games and militia.
(b) Women and games.
(c) Money and women.
(d) Games and women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lavana find himself alone with, which he cannot chase or tame in Lavana?

2. In Viswamitra, Sabala does not want to leave her sage and asks that she be allowed to create men to ________.

3. In Chudala, what beautiful woman appears and asks Sikhi-Dhvaja to take her as his wife?

4. The storyteller in Devi concludes by saying that whoever recites this prayer of thanksgiving on _________ will find protection from evil.

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

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