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

2. Where does Sumantra put Dasaratha’s body after he dies?
(a) In the burial room of the palace
(b) On a pyre
(c) In a tomb
(d) In a vat of oil

3. What is Viswamitra unable to complete, because of Ravana?
(a) Hunting for a deer
(b) Making a sacrifice
(c) Building a house
(d) Moving a mountain

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

5. Why does Rama go after the deer in spite of Lakshmana’s warning that it is an illusion?
(a) Sita wants it
(b) He wants it for himself
(c) His pride is challenged
(d) He goes in spite of himself

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the old men of Ayodhya ask Rama?

2. How does Maricha get Ravana interested in killing Rama?

3. What is this age characterized by?

4. Whose daughter does Ravana marry?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Agastya replace Rama’s bow?

2. Describe the history of Five-Apsarasa Lake.

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

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

5. What is Sita’s response when she hears about Rama’s exile?

6. Describe Bharata’s meeting with Guha.

7. How does Sita allow herself to be abducted?

8. How does Rama help Hanuman?

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

10. Describe Sita’s origins, and how she comes to be Rama’s wife.

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