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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In whose name does Maricha appeal to Ravana, to leave Sita alone?
(a) His people
(b) His wives'
(c) His own
(d) His own

2. How does Maricha get Ravana interested in killing Rama?
(a) He describes Sita's beauty
(b) He describes the power he would wield with the gods who would protect Rama
(c) He describes the beauty of Rama's kingdom
(d) He describes the renown he would earn

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

4. Why does Dasaratha believe it is fair that Rama should be sent away from him?
(a) Because he owed a debt to the gods of the woods
(b) Because he once killed a young man unintentionally
(c) Because he had taken too much pride in him
(d) Because Rama has important things to learn in exile

5. What does Ravana risk with his desire to steal Sita?
(a) Loss of his powers
(b) Humiliation
(c) War with the gods
(d) Death

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

7. What does the poet say is the hardest thing of all to do?
(a) Forgive a god
(b) Deserve rewards from a god
(c) Make contacts with a god
(d) Become a god

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

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

10. How is the search for Sita broken up?
(a) By land, sea, and air
(b) By underworld, earth, kingdoms of the gods, and heavens
(c) By all the various peoples and creatures living on the earth
(d) By the four quarters

11. What does Lakshmana propose to do on hearing that Rama is to be banished?
(a) Kill Kaikeyi
(b) Prepare Rama's things for exile
(c) Kill Dasaratha
(d) Find a suitable place for Rama's exile

12. What season comes in with the rain?
(a) Winter
(b) Autumn
(c) Spring
(d) Summer

13. Which god fitted husband and wife to each other?
(a) Viswakarman
(b) Sukesha
(c) Indra
(d) Brahma

14. What is this age characterized by?
(a) Luxury
(b) Brutality
(c) Contrivance
(d) Dharma

15. Who offers Sita food?
(a) Trijata
(b) Ravana
(c) Surpanakha
(d) Indra

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ayodhya like when Bharata returned to it?

2. How does Rama shake off the people who follow him?

3. Why doesn’t the river Godavari tell Rama where Sita is?

4. Who fashioned the five elements of the world?

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

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