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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hanuman ultimately find Sita?
(a) He sees her while he is leaping
(b) He hears sad voices
(c) Guards lead him to her
(d) He gets a demon to tell him where she is

2. When is the demon army most powerful?
(a) Dawn
(b) Dusk
(c) Noon
(d) Night

3. What proves Sita’s innocence of the charges that led her to be banished?
(a) The lightning in the sky flashes at her command
(b) Ravana's spirit returns to testify to it
(c) Her mother, the earth, takes her home
(d) Trijata testifies in front of everyone at the festival

4. What does Valmiki say Ravana had strength to do?
(a) Begin a new creation of his own
(b) Turn the planet inside out
(c) Protect all creation from harm
(d) Pull the heavens apart

5. What does Ravana do to Hanuman?
(a) Cut off his ears
(b) Light his tail on fire
(c) Keep him in a dungeon
(d) Kill him

6. What is Indrajit’s weapon?
(a) Drowning waters
(b) Fire
(c) Illusion
(d) Flaming swords

7. The least of Ravana’s warriors is as strong as what?
(a) A hurricane
(b) A mountain
(c) A god
(d) Ten elephants

8. What are Ravana’s white robes compared to as he looks over the walls at Rama’s army?
(a) Death and time
(b) Fame and glory
(c) Authority and power
(d) Purity

9. For how many years does Rama continue to rule Ayodhya after his festival?
(a) 10,000 years
(b) 28,000 years
(c) 1,000 years
(d) 14,000 years

10. What form does Hanuman take when he is searching Lanka for Sita?
(a) A man
(b) A cat
(c) A monkey
(d) A demon

11. How many warriors does Ravana have in Lanka?
(a) 640,000
(b) 8 million
(c) 320 million
(d) 1 million

12. Who pleads with Ravana to return Sita?
(a) Trijata
(b) Vibhishana
(c) Khumbakarna
(d) General Prahasta

13. Who saves Hanuman from Ravana’s torture?
(a) Sita
(b) Indra
(c) Trijata
(d) Brahma

14. Why do Rama and Sita have to return to Ayodhya?
(a) Bharata has pledged to kill himself if they have not returned
(b) Rama has a narrow astrological window to establish himself as king.
(c) Bharata is going to rule forever if they are not back by the right time
(d) Another demon army is poised to invade Ayodhya in Rama’s absence

15. What does Ravana ask his two magicians to create by magic?
(a) An imaginary Lanka
(b) An image of Sita's corpse
(c) An image of Hanuman
(d) An image of Rama's head

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ravana say is eternal?

2. Who tells the monkeys where Sita is?

3. What allowed this character to know where Sita was?

4. Where does Rama say that true friendship comes from?

5. How is Indrajit killed?

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