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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what two sons of Rama's does Valmiki pass along the Ramayana?

2. Who is Ravana's sister that enters his chamber claiming that Rama has attacked her?

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

4. What was Kovalan's name in his previous life in The Mispaired Anklet?

5. What in Sanskrit refers to the foremost poet or fountainhead of poetry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Ravana and his brothers go into seclusion? What does Ravana gain?

2. Where does King Nala find himself after Damayanti's Swayamwara is announced?

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

4. Who comes to order Ravana to stop moving a mountain? What is his response?

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

6. What does a serpent give Nala in repayment for saving him?

7. Who does Damayanti encounter in Chedi? What does she do at that point?

8. 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?

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

10. Why does Ravana attack his brother? What does he steal from him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the life of the author, R. K. Narayan, his culture and literary career, and the influences which he drew from in adapting Gods, Demons, and Others.

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss King Lavana. Where is Lavana ruler? How is he thought of by his subjects? What magician visits him?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Indra, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and Mahishasura in Devi. Do these gods hold a definitive role in the stories, or do they transform in each?

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