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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) Rufar.
(c) Tarib.
(d) Rati.

2. Viswamitra decides to create his own heaven and universe, and makes it upside-down so __________ will feel right-side up.
(a) Ravana
(b) Sandhya.
(c) Sabala.
(d) Trisanku.

3. What does Chedi tell the Ultimate God he wants to wield in Viswamitra?
(a) The Tasya Aagamana
(b) The Brahma Astra.
(c) The Adya Divaa.
(d) The Tasya Vaartaa.

4. What form does Mahisha take to meet the goddess Devi?
(a) Demon.
(b) Snake.
(c) Human.
(d) God.

5. What word means buffalo in Sanskrit?
(a) Sunayana.
(b) Sudarzana.
(c) Mahisha.
(d) Maruka.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In Chudala, Sikhi-Dhvaja is a young prince who is interested in nothing but ______________.

4. What are the anti-gods known as in Yayati?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Brahma create in the beginning of Manmata? Why?

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

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

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

6. What is King Chedi's response to his dinner invitation in the beginning of Viswamitra? How is it explained?

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

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

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

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

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