Week 3: Narayan's Ramayana (pp. 89-171)Assignments - Reading Guide A - Reading Guide B - Ramayana Resources |
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Which statement is false?
a. Ravana's heads shouted curses at Rama.
b. Mahodara was Ravana's wife.
c. Sita planned suicide by hanging herself.
d. Ravana ordered the army to awaken Kumbakarna.
Which statement is false?
a. Ravana attacked the divine elephants and was gored in the back.
b. Rama treated Vibishana as the ruler of Lanka in exile.
c. Mandodari even more beautiful than Sita.
d. Rama used the Garuda-astra to defeat the serpents.
Which statement is false?
a. Vishnu sent his chariot to Rama to use in battle.
b. The gods were puzzled by Rama putting Sita to the test.
c. Ravana despaired when he heard of Kumbakarna's defeat.
d. Rama received Sita in the presence of a large crowd.
Which statement is false?
a. Ravana's most deadly weapon was a divine trident.
b. Vibishana asked Rama for asylum.
c. Matali was Indra's charioteer.
d. The word Gnana means obedience.
Which statement is false?
a. Hanuman told Ravana about Rama, and warned him to change his ways.
b. Rama tried to revive Matali, but could not bring him back to life.
c. After 14 years of exile, Rama could now return to Ayodhya.
d. Ravana told the giant Mahodara to attack Lakshmana.
Which statement is false?
a. Indrajit finally killed Lakshmana.
b. At first, Hanuman thought Mandodari was Sita.
c. When Daśaratha forgave Kaikeyi, Rama felt completely at peace.
d. Unlike the others, Hanuman was inclined to trust Vibishana.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama used a mantra to destroy Ravana's trident.
b. Vedavathi vowed she would get her revenge against Ravana in a future life.
c. Sita spurned all of Ravana's advances.
d. Kumbakarna was famous for never sleeping.
Which statement is false?
a. Sita had remained untouched by Ravana.
b. Rama decided it was best to kill Ravana while he had fainted.
c. The monkey army built a bridge across the sea to Lanka.
d. Garuda is the eagle vehicle of Vishnu.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama sent Hanuman to fetch Sita after Ravana's death.
b. Indrajit's poison darts made Rama and Lakshmana faint on the battlefield.
c. Sita was not fooled by Ravana's trick with the decapitated head.
d. Pushpak Vimana was Indra's chariot.
Which statement is false?
a. Daśaratha forgave Bharata, but he refused to ever forgive Kaikeyi.
b. Rama's ancestor was prepared to give his life to protect a pigeon from a
falcon.
c. Rama did not want to have killed Ravana as he was retreating.
d. Sita saw Rama lying on the battlefield, looking as if he were dead.
Which statement is false?
a. Hanuman explained how Vibishana had pleaded with Ravana on his behalf.
b. Rama finally cast aside his forest clothes and put on his royal garments.
c. Vibishana was the architect of the gods.
d. Ravana set Hanuman's tail on fire.
Which statement is false?
a. Sita ordered a fire to be built when Rama rejected her.
b. Vibishana was Ravana's uncle.
c. Ravana's weapon Maya created illusions.
d. Ravana pierced Matali's heart with an arrow.
Which statement is false?
a. Ravana's weapon called Thama created darkness.
b. Rama was delighted by the scar he saw on Ravana's back.
c. Bharata was about to cast himself into the fire since Rama was not back.
d. Ravana sent enormous serpents against Rama.
Which statement is false?
a. Ravana finally accepted Vibishana's good advice.
b. Out of love for Sita, Ravana had put his other women aside.
c. Angada went as an envoy to Ravana telling him to surrender.
d. Rama sent Hanuman to Bharata to announce his arrival.
Which statement is false?
a. Agni was the god of wealth.
b. Indrajit killed a phantom version of Sita.
c. Daśaratha offered to grant any wish of Rama.
d. Mahodara attacked Rama and was destroyed.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama asked Daśaratha to forgive Kausalya for what she had done.
b. Rama refused to admit Sita back into the house.
c. Ravana scorned Rama as being a mere mortal.
d. Rama destroyed Ravana's armies hoping to get Ravana to surrender.
Which statement is false?
a. Ravana saw ominous signs before his battle with Rama.
b. Rama used the Gnana weapon to dispel Ravana's illusions.
c. Aśoka Vana was Ravana's chief advisor.
d. Kumbakarna killed and swallowed thousands of monkeys.
Which statement is false?
a. Ravana told Vibishana that he had to leave or be killed.
b. Ravana's face glowed with devotion before his death.
c. Garuda broke the power of the poison darts.
d. Vibishana reminded Ravana that he had nothing to fear from humans.
Which statement is false?
a. Śiva sent Daśaratha down to earth to see Rama.
b. When Hanuman reached Nandigram, Bharata had already killed himself.
c. Vedavathi was a woman whom Ravana had tried to take by force.
d. Vibishana urged Ravana to release Sita.
Which statement is false?
a. Mandodari was Ravana's wife.
b. Rama ordered a grand funeral for Ravana.
c. Vibishana persuaded Ravana to kill Hanuman.
d. Men and all the animals, even a squirrel, helped build the bridge to Lanka.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama sent the Brahma-astra toward Ravana's heart.
b. Kumbakarna was Ravana's uncle.
c. Indrajit had the power to become invisible.
d. Rama's arrows stripped all Ravana's bad qualities away.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama finally dismembered and killed Kumbakarna.
b. Vibishana refused to give Rama information about how to attack Lanka.
c. Ravana's chariot could move on its own without horses.
d. Rama claimed the test was needed to show Sita's purity.
Which statement is false?
a. Hanuman appeared before Sita and gave her Rama's ring.
b. Hanuman had seen in Lanka that Vibishana was pious and good.
c. Demons regarded monkeys and humans as food.
d. Rama had to refuse Vibishana's request for asylum.
Which statement is false?
a. Each time Rama chopped off one of Ravana's heads, it grew back.
b. Vibishana crossed the ocean and went to Rama.
c. Hanuman let Indrajit capture him and take him to Ravana.
d. Rama struck Ravana in the back, leaving a huge scar.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama and Ravana circled the earth during their battle.
b. Bharata awaited Rama, seated on the throne in Ayodhya..
c. Brahma came to remind Rama of his divine nature.
d. Both Rama and Ravana had supernatural astras at their command.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama wanted to wipe out every trace of Ravana's memory.
b. Rama repelled Ravana's arrows with his own arrows.
c. Rama ordered the sea god to help his armies cross the water to Lanka.
d. Hanuman made himself large again and destroyed the Aśoka Vana.
Which statement is false?
a. Indrajit was Ravana's son.
b. Vibishana gave Rama the Pushpak Vimana chariot.
c. Vishnu returned Sita to Rama from out of the fire.
d. Maya rebuilt Ravana's capital after Hanuman burned it.
Which statement is false?
a. Ravana showed Sita what looked like Rama's decapitated head to scare her.
b. Sita jumped into the fire when Rama rejected her.
c. Trijata, one of Ravana's women, tried to poison Sita.
d. The gods came to Rama's coronation in human form.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama refused to kill an opponent when he had fainted.
b. Rama persisted until Daśaratha finally forgave Kaikeyi.
c. Hanuman found Sita wearing elegant garments, gifts from Ravana.
d. Ravana said prayers to Śiva before his battle with Rama.
Which statement is false?
a. With his tail on fire, Angada burned Ravana's capital.
b. Ravana had protection for his heads and arms but not his heart.
c. Hanuman and Sugriva came to Rama's coronation in human form.
d. Vibishana reminded Ravana that he was not protected against human beings.
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If you get less than 80% you need to go back and do the reading
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