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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. How does the audience know that Kapila has heard Devadatta’s story before?
(a) Because Kapila sticks his fingers in his ears and says, “Blah, blah, blah, I’ve heard this all before.”
(b) Because Kapila silently mouths the words as Devadatta speaks.
(c) Because Kapila draws a picture of a woman exactly as Devadatta has described.
(d) Because Kapila joins in Devadatta’s description verbatim.

2. What does Devadatta say to Padmini when she complains he never goes out anymore?
(a) She is the one who does not want to go out.
(b) He goes out all the time.
(c) Parents should not go out.
(d) He is a Brahmin.

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

4. After the Princess refused to go with her husband unless he was a horse, how was she cursed?
(a) Her head was replaced with a horse’s head.
(b) She was turned into a horse statue.
(c) She was turned into a horse.
(d) She was given a half-horse child.

5. What does the girl hold up high in the song the Bhagavata sings in Act I?
(a) Laughing heads.
(b) The men’s hands.
(c) The men’s dhotis.
(d) The men’s shirts.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Devadatta is explaining to Kapila why they are not going to Ujjain, what does Padmini come in saying that surprises them both?

2. What does Devadatta say he will do when Kapila suggests they go see the temples before going to Ujjain?

3. Where does Kapila sit when Devadatta calls him back so he can tell him about the woman he now loves?

4. Which goddess does the Bhagavata suggest Hayavada see?

5. Just as the play should be ending, Actor II runs on stage and what does he tell the Bhagavata?

(see the answer key)

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