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

2. What is Rama’s response when Bharata asks him to return and be king?
(a) He agrees to return
(b) He asks Bharata to fulfill the exile himself
(c) He refuses
(d) He says that he is not Rama

3. What did Bharata see in his dream, when Dasaratha died?
(a) The sky collpased
(b) The animals were eating each other
(c) The earth swallowed Rama
(d) The fires of Ayodhya went out

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

5. Where did Kaikeyi’s wishes come from?
(a) From her father
(b) Having helped Brahma
(c) Having saved Dasaratha's life
(d) Having worked for Indra

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poet say is the hardest thing of all to do?

2. What word does the Ramayana begin with?

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

4. What is this age characterized by?

5. Why does Dasaratha say he wants to step down?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Ravana’s role in the birth of Rama?

2. How is Bharata convinced to leave Rama in the forest, and accept the throne of Ayodhya himself?

3. What gift does Indra make to Sita?

4. How does Dasaratha describe Rama’s banishment as punishment for his own actions?

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

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

7. Describe the wedding of Rama and Sita.

8. Describe the origin of the city of Lanka.

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

10. What kind of relationship do Sita and Ravana have, from their first meeting?

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