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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rama’s response when Bharata asks him to return and be king?
(a) He asks Bharata to fulfill the exile himself
(b) He refuses
(c) He agrees to return
(d) He says that he is not Rama

2. How does Surpanakha cause trouble for Rama and Sita?
(a) Rama threatens her
(b) She desires Rama
(c) She is afraid of Sita's beauty
(d) She is hungry for Sita

3. What saved Guha’s life?
(a) His innocence
(b) His determination to kick the statue of Shiva
(c) His inability to imagine civilization
(d) His refusal to come inside a palace

4. What compromise do Rama and Bharata reach?
(a) To let Rama rule from exile
(b) To convince Dasaratha to come back himself
(c) To arrange for Kaikeyi to relent
(d) To put Rama's sandals on the throne

5. What brings Valmiki out of the anthill?
(a) A messenger
(b) Sita
(c) Rama
(d) Dasaratha

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Rama and Lakshmana do for their teacher?

2. Who was the first to rid the earth of Rakshasas?

3. What does the narrator say the world’s first verse of poetry was born from?

4. What work does the Ramayana follow after?

5. What does Sumantra find after he leaves Rama and Sita in the woods?

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