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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. Valmiki composed how many stanzas of the Ramayana?
(a) 24,000.
(b) 36,000.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 48,000.

2. Who visits Valmiki and tells him the prophecy of a great man, born into the race of Ikshvahus?
(a) Lakshmana.
(b) Narada.
(c) Lava.
(d) Viswamitra.

3. Who gave Ravana his name?
(a) Bhadra.
(b) Surya.
(c) Vishnu.
(d) Shiva.

4. In his Sankha's first incarnation in the story Valmiki, the thief is a scholarly man who falls in love with what kind of person?
(a) An old woman.
(b) Another man.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) A goddess.

5. What in ancient India was a practice of choosing a life partner from among a list of suitors, by a girl of marriageable age?
(a) Saadhvasaadhu
(b) Swayamvara.
(c) Apadravya.
(d) Asaadhu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kovalan's name in his previous life in The Mispaired Anklet?

2. Savriti tells her father that she found the man she wishes to marry __________.

3. Asvapati is the ruler of what kingdom in the story Savitri?

4. Who tells Savitri that she should not marry the man she desires because he can see the future?

5. Who advises Ravana to undo the thing that is causing all the strife and give Rama's wife back?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who comes to order Ravana to stop moving a mountain? What is his response?

2. What gods assist Nala's brother in tricking Nala? How and why?

3. Who named Ravana? Describe his family.

4. What does Savitri do when her husband's death is coming near in Savitri?

5. Who is Savitri's father with when she announces who she chooses for a husband? What is his reply?

6. Why do Ravana and his brothers go into seclusion? What does Ravana gain?

7. What causes the downfall of Kovalan in The Mispaired Anklet?

8. Describe King Nala. Who visits him in the beginning of the story Nala?

9. How does Ravana die?

10. What do the king and queen of Madurai do upon learning of the wrongs done to Kovalan in The Mispaired Anklet? What does Kannagi do?

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