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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who plants the troubling idea in Kaikeyi’s mind?
(a) Bharata
(b) Manthara
(c) Rama
(d) Dasaratha

2. Who is Rama descended from?
(a) The underworld
(b) The earth
(c) The ocean
(d) The sun

3. What does Valmiki say Ravana thought when he looked at Sita?
(a) Eternity
(b) Desire
(c) Babies
(d) Mine

4. What delays Rama’s search for Sita?
(a) Festivals
(b) The rainy season
(c) Visits from various kings
(d) The hunt

5. What does Agni do for Indra after Indra seduces Gautama’s wife?
(a) Instruct him in making offerings
(b) Restore his vision
(c) Gives him magical powers
(d) Restore his male parts

Short Answer Questions

1. What work does the Ramayana follow after?

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

3. Where does Bharadwaja tell Bharata to find Rama?

4. Why can’t Ravana force Sita?

5. Why does Agastya warn Rama against the Dandaka wood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Bharata’s response when he hears that Dasaratha is dead?

2. How did Ravana win the Battle of the Heaven?

3. Describe the birth of Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata and Satrughna.

4. How does Rama finally motivate Sugriva to start searching for Sita?

5. Describe Bharadwaja’s feast for Bharata and his party.

6. Describe Sita’s origins, and how she comes to be Rama’s wife.

7. How does Sita allow herself to be abducted?

8. How does Hanuman characterize the story of Rama and Sita to Jambavan?

9. Describe Rama and Lakshmana’s training by Viswamitra.

10. How does the Ramayana explain where it has its origin as a poem?

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