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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 does the narrator say the world’s first verse of poetry was born from?
(a) Fear
(b) Triumph
(c) Longing
(d) Pity

2. Where does Ravana put Sita, when he gets her back to Lanka?
(a) In his bedroom
(b) In with the harem
(c) In a kennel
(d) In a grove of Asaka trees

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

4. Why does Dasaratha believe it is fair that Rama should be sent away from him?
(a) Because he had taken too much pride in him
(b) Because Rama has important things to learn in exile
(c) Because he once killed a young man unintentionally
(d) Because he owed a debt to the gods of the woods

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sumantra put Dasaratha’s body after he dies?

2. What is Rama’s response when Bharata asks him to return and be king?

3. What does Guha find remarkable about Bharata?

4. What is Sumantra’s opinion, when Dasaratha asks him for his thoughts about putting Rama on the throne?

5. What is Viswamitra unable to complete, because of Ravana?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ravana defeat Jatayu and escape with Sita?

2. Describe Bharata’s meeting with Guha.

3. Why does Dasaratha decide that he wants to see Rama made king, and what do his advisors say?

4. How is the idea of stealing Sita first presented to Ravana?

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

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

7. Describe Dasaratha’s funeral.

8. Why does Agastya replace Rama’s bow?

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

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

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