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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wins the drinking contest Lakshmana enters into?
(a) Guha
(b) Lakshmana
(c) Rama
(d) It is a tie

2. What does the narrator say the world’s first verse of poetry was born from?
(a) Triumph
(b) Fear
(c) Longing
(d) Pity

3. What work does the Ramayana follow after?
(a) The Koran
(b) The Bhagavad-Gita.
(c) The Iliad
(d) The Mahabharata

4. In what did Valmiki see Rama’s life?
(a) A handful of water
(b) A flowing river
(c) A cup of tea
(d) A mirror

5. What test does Rama pass, to marry Sita?
(a) Solving a puzzle
(b) Breaking Janaka's bow
(c) Performing heroic tasks
(d) Beating other suitors in a race

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bharadwaja tell Bharata to find Rama?

2. What brings Valmiki out of the anthill?

3. Whom does Dasaratha tell Rama and Lakshmana to serve at the beginning of chapter 3?

4. What is Sumantra’s opinion, when Dasaratha asks him for his thoughts about putting Rama on the throne?

5. How does Surpanakha cause trouble for Rama and Sita?

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