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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brahma grant to Ravana for his penance?
(a) Three wishes.
(b) Great wealth.
(c) Indestructibilty.
(d) Infinite knowledge.

2. To what town do Kovalan and his wife move once he has lost everything?
(a) Bathinda.
(b) Mirzapur.
(c) Purnia.
(d) Madurai.

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

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) A goddess.
(c) Another man.
(d) A prostitute.

5. What does Nala save a serpent from in Nala?
(a) A fire.
(b) Lightning.
(c) A large bird.
(d) A falling tree.

6. The one commendable thing Ravana does in his life is marry whom?
(a) Mandodari.
(b) Nandi.
(c) Indrajit.
(d) Hanuman.

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

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

9. What messenger does Nala send to a beautiful princess in Nala?
(a) A swan.
(b) A horse.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A pigeon.

10. Who advises Ravana to undo the thing that is causing all the strife and give Rama's wife back?
(a) Vibhishana.
(b) Vali.
(c) Vishnu
(d) Vaishnodevi.

11. Who is Shakuntala's mother?
(a) Menaka.
(b) Miraya.
(c) Muthunagai.
(d) Madhura.

12. Who is referred to as the god of air, rain, and ocean in Nala?
(a) Varuna.
(b) Vasu.
(c) Vayu.
(d) Vamana.

13. What does the serpent's venom do to Nala?
(a) Changes his appearance.
(b) Makes him hallucinate.
(c) Kills him.
(d) Makes him bleed.

14. What in Sanskrit refers to the foremost poet or fountainhead of poetry?
(a) Locaka Adi.
(b) Chidira Locaka.
(c) Adi Kavi.
(d) Kavi Chidira.

15. What in ancient India was a practice of choosing a life partner from among a list of suitors, by a girl of marriageable age?
(a) Apadravya.
(b) Saadhvasaadhu
(c) Swayamvara.
(d) Asaadhu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What beautiful young princess does a poet tell Nala about when visiting?

2. Because his brother had attempted to advise him, Ravana decides to march upon his land, vanquish him, and steal which of his possessions?

3. Nala leaves Damayanti within sight of _________.

4. What happens to Kovalan after the goldsmith reports him for theft in The Mispaired Anklet?

5. Who is dragged by his tail on fire through Ravana's city?

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