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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act II: Pages 53-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kapila go off to do just before Padmini enters with her child?
(a) Light a fire.
(b) Cut down a tree.
(c) Kill an animal.
(d) Build a hut.

2. After Devadatta and Kapila die, where does Padmini tell the Bhagavata to take her child when he is five and say he is Devadatta’s son?
(a) To the hunters in the forest.
(b) To her parents.
(c) To the Brahmin Vidyasagara.
(d) To Kapila’s family.

3. What is the first thing Padmini asks Kali when she see her in the temple after finding Devadatta and Kapila’s bodies?
(a) If they said anything about her.
(b) Why she did not stop them.
(c) Which one was a better man.
(d) If she spoke to them.

4. After 15 years of marriage, who does the Princess find has replaced her husband?
(a) The Bhagavata.
(b) Flower petals.
(c) A Celestial Being.
(d) A horse.

5. What does Kapila tell Devadatt all the parents in the city wish when they are discussing his new romantic interest?
(a) That their daughters would marry Kapila.
(b) That Devadatta would stay away from their daughters.
(c) That their daughters would marry someone outside the city.
(d) That their daughters could marry Devadatta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Devadatta tell Kapila it does not matter if his love has a name?

2. What does Devadatta invite The Bhagavata to in order to celebrate his son’s birth?

3. Where does Devadatta sit when he enters the stage for the first time?

4. What do Kapila and Devadatta agree is the only thing they can do to solve their problem?

5. What mask is placed on the chair in the opening scene of Act I in Hayavadana?

(see the answer key)

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