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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lakshmana propose to do on hearing that Rama is to be banished?
(a) Kill Kaikeyi
(b) Kill Dasaratha
(c) Find a suitable place for Rama's exile
(d) Prepare Rama's things for exile

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

3. What is Sumantra’s opinion, when Dasaratha asks him for his thoughts about putting Rama on the throne?
(a) He says that Dasaratha should not step down yet
(b) He says that he afraid Rama is not ready
(c) He says that succession is a very risky process
(d) He says that Rama will be a great king

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

5. What test does Rama pass, to marry Sita?
(a) Breaking Janaka's bow
(b) Performing heroic tasks
(c) Beating other suitors in a race
(d) Solving a puzzle

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way is Ravana vulnerable?

2. What does Sauti say that Rama is beyond?

3. What word does the Ramayana begin with?

4. What work does the Ramayana follow after?

5. Who was the first to rid the earth of Rakshasas?

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