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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. Whom does Brahma offer to Manmata for marriage?
(a) Tari.
(b) Rati.
(c) Tarib.
(d) Rufar.

2. What are the anti-gods known as in Yayati?
(a) Guru.
(b) Bhoga.
(c) Mahisha.
(d) Asuras.

3. When the king awakens in Lavana, how long has he been asleep?
(a) 1 or 2 weeks.
(b) 1 or 2 minutes.
(c) 1 or 2 hours.
(d) 1 or 2 days.

4. What is the name of the young male aspic Chudala disguises herself as to appear to her husband?
(a) Kumbha.
(b) Lavana.
(c) Chudala.
(d) Kacha.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What ruler of the gods does Mahisha taunt endlessly in Devi?

2. What word refers to anger in Sanskrit?

3. ___________ fills the tree in which Lavana lands.

4. Where does Viswamitra seek solitude, renounce all speech, and rid himself of anger?

5. What weapon of Vasishta's repels all attacks in Viswamitra?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Mahisha grow up to be like, in Devi? Why does Indra stand against him?

4. Who does Sikhi-Dhvaia's father arrange for him to marry? What is their marriage like?

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

6. How is the struggle between the gods and demons described in the beginning of Yayati?

7. What conversation does Iswara have with Vasishta in Viswamitra?

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

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

10. What obstacles face Kacha once he becomes Sukracharya's pupil in Yayati?

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