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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What scholar, after completing his studies, is returning home when he is confronted by a robber in Valmiki?
(a) Shambhu.
(b) Shubhang.
(c) Saatvik.
(d) Sankha.

2. Savriti tells her father that she found the man she wishes to marry __________.
(a) By the sea.
(b) In a hermitage.
(c) In the mountains.
(d) The market.

3. Who is Rama's wife in Ravana?
(a) Kunthi.
(b) Soorpanakha.
(c) Sita.
(d) Vedavati.

4. Who is Angada's father in Ravana?
(a) Vali.
(b) Vishwakarma.
(c) Vibhishana.
(d) Vishnu.

5. To what two sons of Rama's does Valmiki pass along the Ramayana?
(a) Nimish and Timirbaran.
(b) Wajidali and Pavanaj.
(c) Kusa and Lava.
(d) Thenappan and Firdaus.

6. Who becomes king after Nala loses at a game of dice?
(a) Vali.
(b) Pushkara.
(c) Valmiki.
(d) Satyavan.

7. Who tells Savitri that she should not marry the man she desires because he can see the future?
(a) Yama.
(b) Narada.
(c) Pushkara.
(d) Kannagi.

8. Who visits Valmiki and tells him the prophecy of a great man, born into the race of Ikshvahus?
(a) Lakshmana.
(b) Narada.
(c) Lava.
(d) Viswamitra.

9. Who is left with nothing but his loincloth in the ending of Nala?
(a) Narada.
(b) Pushkara.
(c) Satyavan.
(d) Valmiki.

10. What step-brother of Ravana's is a man of great respectability because of his tapas?
(a) Kubera.
(b) Dasagreeva.
(c) Nandi.
(d) Soorpanakha.

11. Who had Ravana attacked and tormented during one of his excursions and later gave Ravana his third curse?
(a) King Aslesa.
(b) King Arundhati.
(c) King Aranyaka.
(d) King Ayyappan.

12. Which of Ravana's sons does he send to attack a giant monkey?
(a) Kubera.
(b) Vibhishana.
(c) Hanuman.
(d) Indrajit.

13. The spot where Kovalan arose and joined his wife is today a temple known as _________.
(a) Pattini Devi.
(b) Krayavikrayin Aaghaata.
(c) Sataa Dhaagaara.
(d) Hpati Sataa.

14. Who throws herself into a fire to cleanse herself of Ravana's touch?
(a) Mandodari.
(b) Soorpanakha.
(c) Kunthi.
(d) Vedavati.

15. Who is the mother of the five Pandava brothers in Draupadi?
(a) Khandoba.
(b) Kamalatmika.
(c) Kunthi.
(d) Krishna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Rama's emissaries is the son of the god of wind and endowed with extreme strength in Ravana?

2. To what town do Kovalan and his wife move once he has lost everything?

3. What bad omen did Kovalan fail to see in front of him at the marketplace in The Mispaired Anklet?

4. What is the name of the man Savriti wants to marry in the story with her name?

5. Shiva's assistant curses Ravana and tells him that _______ will bring about his demise.

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