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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Agni do for Indra after Indra seduces Gautama’s wife?
(a) Restore his vision
(b) Restore his male parts
(c) Gives him magical powers
(d) Instruct him in making offerings

3. What is Pushpaka driven by?
(a) Wind
(b) Swans
(c) Mind
(d) Horses

4. What is Ravana’s feeling about Rama’s name?
(a) He has his army chant it to make Rama afraid
(b) He mutters it in spite of himself
(c) He can't stand to hear it
(d) He sings it aloud to himself to make himself angry

5. How is the search for Sita broken up?
(a) By the four quarters
(b) By underworld, earth, kingdoms of the gods, and heavens
(c) By all the various peoples and creatures living on the earth
(d) By land, sea, and air

6. What does Bharata answer when Bharadwaja says that he knows that the king is dead?
(a) That the king's death has to be avenged
(b) That the king was murdered
(c) That Rama is the king
(d) That he is king now

7. What work does the Ramayana follow after?
(a) The Bhagavad-Gita.
(b) The Mahabharata
(c) The Iliad
(d) The Koran

8. Why does Bharadwaja bless Kaikeyi?
(a) Because Rama's exile will benefit the entire world
(b) Because she wants to kill herself in grief
(c) Because he knows she was innocent
(d) Because he sympathizes with her regrets

9. What was Agastya’s accomplishment?
(a) He gathered the Ganga River
(b) He lowered the Vindhya Hills
(c) He started the Ganga River
(d) He raised the Himalya Hills

10. What does Valmiki say Ravana thought when he looked at Sita?
(a) Eternity
(b) Desire
(c) Babies
(d) Mine

11. How does Sugriva say he learned the layout of the earth?
(a) By his long hunting trips
(b) By his search for his own wife
(c) By his many explorations
(d) By being chased by Vali

12. Whom does Dasaratha tell Rama and Lakshmana to serve at the beginning of chapter 3?
(a) Vasishtha
(b) Sauti
(c) Viswamitra
(d) Vaishravana

13. How does Maricha help Ravana abduct Sita?
(a) He fights Rama and Lakshmana
(b) He casts a spell on Rama and Lakshmana
(c) He creates a thick fog for Ravana
(d) He distracts Rama and Lakshmana

14. How does Maricha get Ravana interested in killing Rama?
(a) He describes the beauty of Rama's kingdom
(b) He describes the power he would wield with the gods who would protect Rama
(c) He describes the renown he would earn
(d) He describes Sita's beauty

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can’t Ravana force Sita?

2. What do the Valakhila saints say war is preferable to?

3. What does Lakshmana propose to do on hearing that Rama is to be banished?

4. What does Maricha say forest hermits have been doing, in hopes of Ravana’s death?

5. How does Rama shake off the people who follow him?

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