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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Savari tell Rama to seek, in the midst of misfortune?
(a) Merit
(b) Virtue
(c) Friendship
(d) Escape
2. What was Ayodhya like when Bharata returned to it?
(a) Full of strife
(b) Silent
(c) Tumultuous
(d) Wailing
3. How does Surpanakha cause trouble for Rama and Sita?
(a) She is hungry for Sita
(b) She desires Rama
(c) Rama threatens her
(d) She is afraid of Sita's beauty
4. What does Lakshmana propose to do on hearing that Rama is to be banished?
(a) Prepare Rama's things for exile
(b) Find a suitable place for Rama's exile
(c) Kill Kaikeyi
(d) Kill Dasaratha
5. What does Sita wear in exile?
(a) Men's clothes
(b) Armor
(c) Bark and rags
(d) Her fine clothes
6. What does Garuda bring back from heaven to ransom his mother?
(a) Nectar
(b) Ambrosia
(c) Amrita
(d) Mead
7. How is the search for Sita broken up?
(a) By the four quarters
(b) By all the various peoples and creatures living on the earth
(c) By land, sea, and air
(d) By underworld, earth, kingdoms of the gods, and heavens
8. For how long had Rama and Sita been married when Dasaratha says that he wants Rama to rule?
(a) 10 years
(b) 8 years
(c) 12 years
(d) 14 years
9. What brings Valmiki out of the anthill?
(a) Sita
(b) Rama
(c) A messenger
(d) Dasaratha
10. What is it that allows Ravana to defeat Jatayu?
(a) Jatayu's age
(b) Surpanakha's spell
(c) Ravanna's strength
(d) Ravana's magic
11. Where is Sita born?
(a) In a furrow
(b) In a palace
(c) In a barn
(d) In the ocean
12. What does Viswakarman build for Bharata?
(a) A palace
(b) A dream forest
(c) A chariot
(d) A dream feast
13. Whose daughter does Ravana marry?
(a) The god of the sun
(b) The god of the ocean
(c) The god of the earth
(d) The god of illusion
14. What does Bharata do to save Manthara from lifetimes of suffering?
(a) Banish her
(b) Kill her
(c) Forgive her
(d) Pay her debt
15. What does Maricha say forest hermits have been doing, in hopes of Ravana’s death?
(a) Sacrificing their domesticated animals
(b) Abstaining from food
(c) Praying
(d) Pouring butter on their fires
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Ravana risk with his desire to steal Sita?
2. Whom does Dasaratha tell Rama and Lakshmana to serve at the beginning of chapter 3?
3. What does Valmiki say Ravana thought when he looked at Sita?
4. Why does Rama kill Vali?
5. How far from India is Lanka?
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