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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was pulled into the air by Hanuman’s leap?

2. What draws Indrajit’s chariot?

3. What does Rama tell Ravana’s spies?

4. Who makes dinner for Rama and Sita on their way back to Ayodhya?

5. Where do the monkeys and bears go after Rama’s coronation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Indrajit killed?

2. Describe General Prahasta’s chariot.

3. How is Ravana killed?

4. What happens to Sardula and Sarana?

5. How do Rama and Samudra and Ocean Lord resolve the question of the bridge to Lanka?

6. Why does Vibhishana defect from Ravana?

7. Describe Hanuman’s leap.

8. Describe Rama’s return to the throne of Ayodhya.

9. Describe the Rakshasis Hanuman sees when he is searching Lanka.

10. How is this chapter different in this version than it is in the original?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the audience for the Ramayana? What is the ideal reader for the Ramayana likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

Essay Topic 2

Debate the proposition that the Ramayana is too old to be relevant in modern times.

Essay Topic 3

Read another translation of the Ramayana, and compare and contrast William Buck’s edition with the other. How are they similar? How are they different? What makes Buck’s edition unique and valuable? What are its shortcomings compared to the other edition?

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