Week 5: Buck's Ramayana (pp. 110-218)Assignments - Reading Guide A - Reading Guide B - Ramayana Resources |
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Which statement is false?
a. Garuda was born from Vinata's second egg.
b. The Valakhilyas asked Rama to deliver them from the demons.
c. The Vindhya hills claimed to be the new center of the world.
d. During the churning, the Ocean turned from blood to water.
Which statement is false?
a. Bharadwaja invited the thousands of Kosalas to enter his hermitage.
b. As the rakshasas readied their attack, Rama's arrows began to shriek loudly.
c. Vinata lost the bet and became Kadru's slave.
d. Rama used mantras and weapons from Visvamitra to defeat the rakshasas.
Which statement is false?
a. Vatapi would take the form of a ram and let Ilwala cook him.
b. Dadhicha offered to give Indra his bones for thunder.
c. The Vindhya hills grew taller and taller to rival the Himalyas.
d. The bird bones warned Guha that Bharata was a dangerous enemy.
Which statement is false?
a. Kasyapa's two wives were Garuda and Aruna.
b. Indra feared Mandarkarni's austerities would drown the whole world.
c. As the rakshasas readied their attack, Rama's bow hummed.
d. Khara commanded a rakshasa army in the Dandaka forest.
Which statement is false?
a. When the Nagas and Kadru were washing, Indra stole back the amrita.
b. Indra sent the Valakhilyas to distract Mandakarni from his austerities.
c. Surpanakha wanted to take Rama to live with her in Lanka as her husband.
d. Kasyapa was a great sage.
Which statement is false?
a. Kadru bet Vinata that Uchchaihsravas was not all white.
b. In the fourteenth summer of his exile, Rama went to stay with Guha, the
forest king.
c. Visvakarman created a pleasing garden in Bharadwaja's hermitage.
d. Garuda was a huge eagle with golden feathers.
Which statement is false?
a. Vinata gave birth to two eggs, and Kadru gave birth to one thousand.
b. After leaving Bharadwaja's hermitage, Bharata found Rama in the Dandaka
forest.
c. Indra had never seen a man as large as Dadhicha.
d. Rama learned from Bharata that Dasaratha was dead.
Which statement is false?
a. The weight of all the rakshasas dwelling in the south balances the earth.
b. Ravana was the master of Dandaka forest.
c. Khara was enraged about what had happened to Surpanakha.
d. For thirteen years, Rama, Sita and Lakshmana lived in the Vindhya hills.
Which statement is false?
a. Mandakarni married the five Apsarasas and they lived in the lake.
b. Vindhya is still bowed down under the weight of the sage Kasyapa.
c. If Rama stayed away more than the fourteen years, Bharata planned to kill
himself.
d. The Kosalas were happy with how they were received by Bharadwaja.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama visited the sage Bharadwaja in his hermitage.
b. Vindhya rose so high that the sun could not pass over it.
c. Guha used pebbles from the river Ganges to practice divination.
d. Rama loved his life in the forest.
Which statement is false?
a. Agastya told Vindhya to stay low and await his return.
b. Vinata's son Aruna became charioteer of Surya, the sun.
c. Dadhicha was the tiny leader of the Valakhilya saints.
d. Vasishtha insisted that Bharata rule in Rama's absence.
Which statement is false?
a. Garuda had the arms and hands of a man and a male torso.
b. Rama let the crow live but took away its ability to speak.
c. While away from Ayodhya, Bharata had nightmares of the moon falling to earth.
d. Dasaratha took up a place in heaven after his body was burned.
Which statement is false?
a. Bharata was appalled by how Kaikeyi had used her two wishes.
b. The thunderbolt gave Garuda supernatural powers of hearing.
c. Surpanakha attacked Sita but Lakshmana stopped her.
d. The Nagas have slit tongues from licking the sharp grass.
Which statement is false?
a. Viradha emerged as a Gandharva after his death.
b. Kausalya never forgave Bharata for his role in Kaikeyi's plot.
c. Kadru felt superior to Vinata because of the number of her children.
d. Surpanakha told Ravana about how incredibly beautiful Sita was.
Which statement is false?
a. Agastya warned Rama to be careful at night in the Dandaka forest.
b. Satrughna defended Manthara because he felt sorry for her.
c. Garuda wanted to ransom Vinata from enslavement to Kadru.
d. After being eaten, Vatapi would burst out, killing the person who had eaten
him.
Which statement is false?
a. Agastya asked to see Rama's bow, and gave him a better one.
b. The Dandaka forest was in the far north, in the foothills of the Himalyas.
c. Rama came to the house of Atri and Anasuya.
d. Mandakarni was a hermit who lived on air, not eating anything.
Which statement is false?
a. Agastya gave Rama a bow that had fallen from heaven.
b. Bharata asked Rama to return to Ayodhya and be king.
c. After five hundred years, Kadru's eggs hatched into Nagas.
d. Garuda managed to steal the amrita from the Valakhilyas.
Which statement is false?
a. Surpanakha told Ravana about Rama's attack on the rakshasas.
b. Narayana met Garuda flying away with the amrita.
c. Rama asked Bharata to wait fourteen years for his return.
d. The wife of the sage Vatapi was named Ilwala.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama left Chitrakuta and headed for the Vindhya hills.
b. Narayana offered to make Garuda immortal.
c. The Godavari river runs through Dandaka forest.
d. Amrita is made from the tears that were shed by the cow Surabhi.
Which statement is false?
a. Viswakarman made Dadhicha's bones into a rainbow.
b. After the rakshasa defeat, Surpanakha went to Lanka.
c. While in the woods Sita was attacked by a crow.
d. Kadru demanded amrita as the price to set Vinata free.
Which statement is false?
a. Vinata opened Aruna's shell early, so he is translucent.
b. While away from Ayodhya, Satrughna dreamed Bharata became king.
c. Lakshmana built a house near at Panchavati.
d. Bharadwaja blessed Kaikeyi and said she had done no wrong.
Which statement is false?
a. The royal throne was moved from Ayodhya to the village of Nandigram.
b. Dasaratha's bones were taken from the ashes and cast into the Sarayu.
c. Agastya vomited up the demon Vatapi and then slew him with his sword.
d. The red dawn is from the sun shining through the transparent Aruna.
Which statement is false?
a. Guha took Bharata and the queens to Bharadwaja's hermitage.
b. Garuda agreed to become Indra's vehicle.
c. Vatapi and Ilwala had killed thousands of people with the ram trick.
d. Bharadwaja told Bharata that Rama was at Chitrakuta.
Which statement is false?
a. Anasuya gave Sita her gold and silver ornaments.
b. Bharata put Rama's sandals on the throne.
c. Indra refused to give Garuda the amrita.
d. Tumburu was cursed to be a demon until he married Sita.
Which statement is false?
a. Agastya burned Ilwala to ashes with the fire of his eyes.
b. Bharata gave Rama his sandals in exchange for his bow and arrow.
c. Indra struck Garuda with a thunderbolt.
d. Anasuya gave Sita a never-fading garland.
Which statement is false?
a. Maricha had been shot by Rama when young, but had survived.
b. Agastya urged Rama to strike at Ravana.
c. The rakshasa physicians were unable to restore Surpanakha's ears.
d. Kaikeyi explained to Bharata that Dasaratha was dead and Rama disinherited.
Which statement is false?
a. Rama decided Chitrakuta was too close to Ayodhya.
b. During the night, Bharadwaja's pleasure garden disappeared.
c. Garuda drank half of the amrita and gave the rest to Kadru.
d. Sita did not want Rama to go to war with the demons.
Which statement is false?
a. Bharadwaja wanted to meet the three queens.
b. Bharata went with a huge entourage to find Rama in the forest.
c. If injustice was done, Rama's sandals burned with a black smoke.
d. Lakshmana cut off Surpanakha's ears with his knife.
Which statement is false?
a. Bharadwaja summoned Visvakarman to cater for his guests.
b. The Valakhilyas gave Kasyapa two seeds, one for each wife.
c. The rakshasa Viradha abducted Sita.
d. Uchchaihsravas is the nectar produced from the churning of the Ocean.
Which statement is false?
a. There was no joy in Ayodhya for the fourteen years of Rama's exile.
b. When Indra kicked him, Dadhicha crumbled into bones and dust.
c. Kadru made her thousand children become black hairs on Uchchaihsravas's
tail.
d. Rama and Lakshmana finally buried Viradha under rocks and killed him.
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the 80% RULE when you are taking quizzes for these classes.
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The quizzes are here to make sure you are ready to go on to the next
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%.