Week 2: Narayan's Ramayana (pp. 1-89)Assignments - Reading Guide A - Reading Guide B - Ramayana Resources |
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Which statement is false?
a. Wherever Rishyaśringa was, there was a desert.
b. The dwarf covered the earth and heavens in just 2 strides.
c. The gods went to Vishnu for protection from Ravana.
d. Brahma decided to give Ahalya to Gautama as his bride.
Which statement is false?
a. Brahma created the perfectly beautiful woman Ahalya.
b. Rama felt despair at the thought of living in the forest.
c. Śiva took the impact of Ganga's fall on his head.
d. Rama saw Sita on the balcony of Janaka's palace
Which statement is false?
a. Subahu and Maricha killed their mother Thataka.
b. Indra was attracted to Ahalya.
c. Viśvamitra took Rama and Lakshmana to King Janaka.
d. Kooni said Rama was a threat to Bharata.
Which statement is false?
a. Ayodhya was the capital of the country of Kosala.
b. Indra pretended to be a rooster to awaken Gautama early.
c. The parents of the boy Daśaratha had killed cursed Daśaratha.
d. Ahalya was the wife of the sage Rishyaśringa.
Which statement is false?
a. To marry Sita a man had to lift, bend, and string the bow of Indra.
b. Sakara was one of Rama's ancestors.
c. Kaikeyi wanted Rama to be banished for 14 years.
d. Bhagiratha wanted salvation for his ancestors.
Which statement is false?
a. Gautama told Ahalya her redemption would be given by Rama.
b. Sita was a gift of Mother Earth to Janaka.
c. Śiva's bow snapped from Rama's strength.
d. Rama and Lakshmana traveled over snowy mountains with Viśvamitra.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama defeated Subahu and Maricha, the sons of Thataka.
b. Gautama caused Indra to have 1000 female genitals on his body.
c. Brahma told Bhagiratha he needed to bring Ahalya down to earth.
d. Bharata and Śatrughna were inseparable.
Which statement is false?
a. Viśvamitra wanted Rama's help to do battle with King Janaka.
b. Mithila was a rich, beautiful city.
c. Daśaratha planned elaborate festivities for Rama's coronation.
d. Rama was to be crowned king at an auspicious time.
Which statement is false?
a. Kaikeyi was the mother of Bharata.
b. Vasishtha urged Daśaratha to send Rama with Viśvamitra.
c. Rishyaśringa had never seen a woman before.
d. Sumitra was the mother of Rama.
Which statement is false?
a. Sita was an incarnation of Vishnu's consort Lakshmi.
b. The Sarayu river flows through the country of Kosala.
c. Daśaratha was generally despised by his subjects.
d. The King of Anga wanted Rishyaśringa to end a drought.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama was an incarnation of the god Śiva.
b. Rama had the mastery of weapons called astras.
c. Kausalya wept when she learned of Rama's exile.
d. Śiva and Brahma had bestowed powers on Ravana.
Which statement is false?
a. Vishnu agreed to incarnate as Daśaratha's son.
b. Viśvamitra urged Rama to spare Thataka.
c. Kamban wrote an epic about Rama.
d. Thataka turned the fertile land into a desert.
Which statement is false?
a. Brahma is the Creator god.
b. Kaikeyi wanted her son Bharata crowned as king.
c. Agastya drank the waters of the ocean dry.
d. Sakara wanted to marry the woman Ahalya.
Which statement is false?
a. Adisesha is the white cow on which Vishnu rests.
b. Indra feels threatened by a king who performs a Horse Sacrifice.
c. Kaikeyi wanted Rama gone before Bharata arrived.
d. Daśaratha owed Kaikeyi two promises.
Which statement is false?
a. Janaka fought off the angry suitors' armies.
b. Like Mahabali, Śukracharya scoffed at the dwarf.
c. The Ganga starts in the Himalaya mountains.
d. Rama and Sita's wedding had lucky planet conjunctions.
Which statement is false?
a. Daśaratha promised Kaikeyi's father that their son would be heir.
b. The dust from Rama's feet released Ahalya from the stone.
c. Daśaratha was glad Bharata would not be present at Rama's coronation.
d. A dead person whose ashes are dissolved in the Sarayu river attains salvation.
Which statement is false?
a. Thataka's sons were Maricha and Subahu.
b. Rama stole Sakara's sacrificial horse.
c. Asuras are demons.
d. Daśaratha thought Rama too young to go with Viśvamitra.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama said he had no attachment to being king.
b. Mahabali insisted on giving the dwarf a gift.
c. Vishnu incarnated as a dwarf to fight Viśvamitra.
d. Śiva agreed to help Bhagiratha if he could get Ganga to descend
Which statement is false?
a. Daśaratha decided to retire before extreme old age set in.
b. Daśaratha was the king of Kosala.
c. The pit dug by Sakara's sons is where oceans are today.
d. Daśaratha was the father of Kaikeyi.
Which statement is false?
a. Daśaratha was sad because he had no children.
b. Janaka did not want Rama to marry his daughter.
c. Kapila burned Sakara's sons to ashes with his gaze.
d. Rama killed the demon woman Thataka.
Which statement is false?
a. Daśaratha proposed making Rishyaśringa his successor.
b. Mahabali was pressed by the dwarf's foot into the underworld.
c. Rama told Ahalya to rejoin her husband
d. Ravana can be destroyed by a human being.
Which statement is false?
a. Bhagiratha inherited his grandfather Sakara's kingdom.
b. The dwarf wanted the amount of land he covered in three strides.
c. Agastya cursed Thataka and her sons to become asuras.
d. Daśaratha was nearly 100 years old.
Which statement is false?
a. Ahalya lived happily with her husband Gautama.
b. Sita fell in love with Rama at first sight.
c. Viśvamitra was a sage who became a king.
d. Gautama caught Ahalya in bed with Indra.
Which statement is false?
a. Sita was in despair because of her love for Rama.
b. Mt. Meru was used to churn the Ocean of Milk.
c. Brahma gave Ahalya to the sage Gautama.
d. Sumitra was the mother of Lakshmana and Rama.
Which statement is false?
a. Yama is the sun god.
b. Daśaratha had bad premonitions about Rama's coronation.
c. Indra hid the horse behind the sage Kapila underground.
d. The crowd had loved Daśaratha and they loved Rama too.
Which statement is false?
a. Many princes had aspired to marry Sita.
b. With his third stride, the dwarf stood on Mahabali's head.
c. Sumantra was Daśaratha's chief minister.
d. Janaka hoped that Sita would never marry.
Which statement is false?
a. Bhagiratha prayed and practiced extreme austerities
b. Thataka was married to Viśvamitra.
c. Rama did not want to kill Thataka because she was a woman.
d. Bhagiratha used the waters of Ganga to wash his ancestors' ashes.
Which statement is false?
a. Kooni planned to prevent the coronation of Rama.
b. Gautama cursed his wife to be turned into a bowl of rice.
c. Bhagiratha needed to wash his ancestors' bones in Ganga.
d. Viśvamitra taught Rama secret techniques and weapons.
Which statement is false?
a. Sita was found in the furrow of a ploughed field.
b. Gautama disguised himself as Indra and made love to Ahalya.
c. Rama kept thinking about Sita after he saw her.
d. Viśvamitra asked Janaka to show them the bow of Śiva.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama was able to lift Śiva's bow but could not string it.
b. Covered with female genitalia, Indra hid in shame.
c. Viśvamitra took Rama to Mithila, the home of King Janaka.
d. Janaka had a bow which belonged to Śiva.
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activity. If you get 80% or better, you are ready to proceed.
If you get less than 80% you need to go back and do the reading
again (read more slowly, take notes) and take the quiz again, aiming
for at least 80%.