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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. Savriti tells her father that she found the man she wishes to marry __________.
(a) In a hermitage.
(b) By the sea.
(c) In the mountains.
(d) The market.

2. Who is Kovalan married to in The Mispaired Anklet?
(a) Narada.
(b) Yama.
(c) Madhavi.
(d) Kannagi.

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

4. What assistant of Shiva's, who is deformed and dwarfish, orders Ravana to cease and desist from moving the mountain?
(a) Nookambika.
(b) Nandi.
(c) Narada.
(d) Nirrith.

5. Nala is the ruler of what kingdom?
(a) Haryana.
(b) Karnataka.
(c) Rajasthan.
(d) Nishadha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What scholar, after completing his studies, is returning home when he is confronted by a robber in Valmiki?

2. 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?

3. Ravana is first known by what name?

4. Rama is the incarnation of what god in Valmiki?

5. What does the serpent's venom do to Nala?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ravana die?

2. What do the king and queen of Madurai do upon learning of the wrongs done to Kovalan in The Mispaired Anklet? What does Kannagi do?

3. Who is Savitri's father with when she announces who she chooses for a husband? What is his reply?

4. Describe the figure of Valmiki. What great work did he compose?

5. Why is Asvapati praying in the beginning of Savitri? To whom does he pray?

6. Who arrives to save Sita in Ravana? What does he do to free her?

7. What moral lesson is relayed in the story of Draupadi?

8. Where does Nala leave Damayanti behind in Nala? Why?

9. What is Sita's reaction to Ravana once she has been kidnapped?

10. What do Ravana and his brothers do when they come out from seclusion?

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