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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. Whose ambition it is to enter heaven in his earthly form in Viswamitra?
(a) Lavana.
(b) Trisanku.
(c) Indra.
(d) Chedi.

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

3. In the story Devi, Mahisha claims that no woman has weapons other than ______________.
(a) Her eyes and her curves.
(b) Her brain and her hands.
(c) Her curves and her eyes.
(d) Her eyes and her brain.

4. What half-human, half-cow does Vasishta reveal in Viswamitra?
(a) Sabala.
(b) Chudala.
(c) Shiva.
(d) Iswara.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When she returns to the forest to check on her husband's progress, Chudala finds Sikhi-Dhvaja emaciated and ___________.

2. When the king awakens in Lavana, how long has he been asleep?

3. The goddess Devi sends word that she wants Mahisha to either come and face her, or return where?

4. Viswamitra decides to create his own heaven and universe, and makes it upside-down so __________ will feel right-side up.

5. Who do the asuras cut into bits and feed to wolves and dogs in Yayati?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the third test which Chudala places on her husband? What comes of it?

10. What happens when Kacha decides to return to the god-world in Yayati?

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