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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Vaishravana the god of?
(a) The earth
(b) The rain
(c) Wealth
(d) All the cosmos

2. What does Maricha say forest hermits have been doing, in hopes of Ravana’s death?
(a) Sacrificing their domesticated animals
(b) Praying
(c) Pouring butter on their fires
(d) Abstaining from food

3. What does Sumantra find after he leaves Rama and Sita in the woods?
(a) Dasaratha's kindergarten is withering
(b) Dasaratha's kingdom is in flower
(c) Bharata has become a tyrant
(d) Dasaratha's kingdom has become corrupt

4. What do the Valakhila saints say war is preferable to?
(a) Submission
(b) Fear
(c) Friendship
(d) Peace

5. What did Bharata see in his dream, when Dasaratha died?
(a) The sky collpased
(b) The earth swallowed Rama
(c) The animals were eating each other
(d) The fires of Ayodhya went out

6. Why does Rama go after the deer in spite of Lakshmana’s warning that it is an illusion?
(a) He goes in spite of himself
(b) He wants it for himself
(c) His pride is challenged
(d) Sita wants it

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

8. What is Pushpaka driven by?
(a) Wind
(b) Horses
(c) Mind
(d) Swans

9. How does Rama shake off the people who follow him?
(a) With false tracks
(b) With threats
(c) With promises
(d) With lies

10. Why does Dasaratha say he wants to step down?
(a) He has too many responsibilities
(b) His debts to himself are all paid
(c) His health is failing
(d) He enjoys too much happiness

11. What do the queens do in Dasaratha’s name, after his funeral?
(a) Give gifts
(b) Say prayers
(c) Light fires
(d) Dedicate temples

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

13. How do humans win favors from gods in the Ramayana?
(a) By acquiring merit
(b) By besieging their castles
(c) By praying
(d) By purchasing favors

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

15. What does Rama put in the river when he hears of his father’s death?
(a) Cakes
(b) Flowers
(c) Incense
(d) Hair

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sita wear in exile?

2. Who came to take Dasaratha away, after he told the story of why Rama had had to be taken?

3. What does Garuda bring back from heaven to ransom his mother?

4. Who offers Sita food?

5. What does the crow surrender, when he apologizes to Rama?

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