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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bharata do to save Manthara from lifetimes of suffering?
(a) Banish her
(b) Forgive her
(c) Kill her
(d) Pay her debt

2. What is it that the rain kills?
(a) The monkeys' joy
(b) Rama's love for Sita
(c) The earth
(d) The dust

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

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

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

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

7. What does Swayamprabha say Maya is master of?
(a) Creation
(b) Knowledge
(c) Death
(d) Time

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

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

10. What reason does Sumantra give Dasaratha for his opinion?
(a) He can believe what Rama says
(b) Rama has not held office before
(c) He wants to wait until Rama has been trained
(d) Rama still says foolish things

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

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

13. What is Viswamitra unable to complete, because of Ravana?
(a) Hunting for a deer
(b) Moving a mountain
(c) Building a house
(d) Making a sacrifice

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

15. Why doesn’t the river Godavari tell Rama where Sita is?
(a) It did not see Ravana take Sita
(b) It is loyal to Ravana
(c) It cannot speak in Rama's language
(d) It is afraid of Ravana

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the search for Sita broken up?

2. What is the importance of the golden hill Meru?

3. What word does the Ramayana begin with?

4. Who fashioned the five elements of the world?

5. In whose name does Maricha appeal to Ravana, to leave Sita alone?

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