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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men accompany the king when he meets a sage in Viswamitra?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 100.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 1,000.

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

3. How many sons is the king borne by his wife in the magical land in Lavana?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

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

5. Vasishta explains to the king that his strength comes from where in Viswamitra?
(a) His spirit.
(b) Inside himself.
(c) His food.
(d) His training.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sukracharya's daughter in Yayati?

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

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

4. 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?

5. How long does Chedi go to sit in seclusion and meditation before emerging to battle the sage in Viswamitra?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sabala feel about leaving Vasishta in Viswamitra? What does she do?

2. Who does Brahma offer in marriage to Manmata? Where does he send them afterward?

3. Discuss the themes and plots within the story Yayati. What unites the story?

4. How does the story Devi conclude? Who kills Mahisha?

5. What is the objective of Mahishasura, according to the storyteller in the beginning of Devi?

6. What moral lesson does King Lavana learn from his encounter with a magician?

7. How does Chudala test her husband's ability to make no distinction between yielding and resisting?

8. What does Mahisha do upon hearing a challenge through the woods in Devi?

9. What happens to Manmata's arrows when he shoots them in the beginning of Manmata?

10. What does King Chedi come upon in the beginning of Viswamitra?

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