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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the woman in the woods carrying to her father in Lavana?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Money.
(c) Supplies.
(d) Food.

2. What does the goddess Devi wield in each arm?
(a) A different religious text.
(b) A different weapon.
(c) A different animal.
(d) A different fruit.

3. 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) Pishacha.
(b) Mahishasura.
(c) Kali.
(d) Andhaka.

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

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

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

7. The woman in the woods refuses to help the king unless he does what in Lavana?
(a) Marries her.
(b) Gives her money.
(c) Shares a secret with her.
(d) Answers a question.

8. How many arms does the goddess Devi have?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

9. In Chudala, what beautiful woman appears and asks Sikhi-Dhvaja to take her as his wife?
(a) Meenush.
(b) Mandanika.
(c) Markandeya.
(d) Mahavidya.

10. Who appears to Sikhi-Dhvaia and tells him that since he has achieved such spiritual enlightenment, there is no reason why he should not join in his world of unending pleasure and delight?
(a) Indilayappan.
(b) Ugratara.
(c) Indra.
(d) Ushas.

11. What deity is referred to as the creator god in the stories?
(a) Brahma.
(b) Garuda.
(c) Ranganatha.
(d) Nookambika.

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

13. 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.

14. What word refers to pleasure and enjoyment in Sanskrit?
(a) Naama.
(b) Kuzala.
(c) Krodha.
(d) Bhoga.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the goddess Devi wear?

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

3. What Sanskrit word refers to a "seer" to whom the Vedas were "originally revealed" through states of higher consciousness?

4. What sage does Kumbha claim put a curse on him in Chudala?

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

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