Week 9: Narayan's Mahabharata (pp. 1-83)Assignments - Reading Guide A - Reading Guide B - Mahabharata Resources |
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Which statement is false?
a. Satyavati, the fisherman's daughter, became Santanu's wife.
b. The three daughters of the King of Kasi were Amba, Ambika, and Ambalika.
c. Drona gave Arjuna a secret weapon as a reward for rescuing him from the rakshasa
Hidimba.
d. Karna and Duryodhana were also present at Drupada's swayamvara.
Which statement is false?
a. Gandhari produced 100 sons with Dhritarashtra.
b. Pandu died in the battle with King Drupada.
c. Duryodhana and his brothers were not as popular with the people as the Pandavas.
d. The vasus had stolen Vasishtha's cow.
Which statement is false?
a. All five Pandava brothers fell in love with Draupadi.
b. Dhritarashtra chose Gandhari as his bride because she was also blind.
c. Vichitravirya died without having fathered any sons.
d. With hidden clues, Vidura gave Yudhishthira a warning about dangers lurking
at Varanavata.
Which statement is false?
a. When bathing in the river, Drona was caught by a crocodile.
b. Duryodhana had Bhima drugged and thrown in the river, but Bhima survived.
c. Duryodhana urged Dhritarashtra to exile the Pandavas.
d. Karna taught Kunti a mantra so that she could summon any god to get children.
Which statement is false?
a. After Purochana rescued them from the fire, the Pandavas escaped from Varanavata
into the forest.
b. Because of Nalayani's prayer, Draupadi became a woman with five husbands.
c. The House of Joy smelled of oil, resin and straw.
d. The Pandavas went begging like brahmins after their escape from Varanavata.
Which statement is false?
a. To test the mantra given to her by Durvasa, Kunti had summoned Surya, the
sun god.
b. Bhishma appointed Drona as the guru of the sons of Dhritarashtra and of
Pandu.
c. Ganga and Santanu's children were the ten avatars of Vishnu.
d. Madri invoked the Aswins, the twin gods and had twins, Nakula and Sahadeva.
Which statement is false?
a. Duryodhana had Karna made king of Anga, making him royalty.
b. Karna was born wearing armor and large earrings.
c. Ambalika flushed with the passion of love when Vyasa came to her bedchamber.
d. Santanu said nothing when his wife drowned their first seven children.
Which statement is false?
a. Dhritarashtra was born blind, and Pandu was born pale.
b. Surya and Kunti had a child named Karna.
c. Bhishma seized the King of Kasi's three daughters by force at the swayamvara.
d. Santanu and Satyavati had two sons: Dhritarashtra and Pandu..
Which statement is false?
a. Amba had intended to marry the King of Salwa so Bhishma let Amba go.
b. Yama was the god of Death and of Ultimate Justice (Dharma).
c. Yudhishthira was Krishna's brother.
d. The Pandavas went to Drupada's swayamvara.
Which statement is false?
a. Hidimba could take on a beautiful human form when she wanted.
b. Krishna was also present at Drupada's swayamvara.
c. Dhritarashtra had designated Yudhishthira as his heir.
d. Satyavati begged Bhishma to father sons with her.
Which statement is false?
a. Satyavati was born when her father the fisherman slept with the river Ganga.
b. Devaratha (Bhishma) was designated as Santanu's heir.
c. Pandu once went hunting and killed a deer who was making love.
d. Bhima set fire to the House of Joy as the Pandavas abandoned it.
Which statement is false?
a. The architect Purochana was Duryodhana's agent.
b. Santanu asked the charioteer if he could marry his daughter Ambalika..
c. Krishna recognized that the brahmins at the swayamvara were the Pandavas.
d. The Pandavas constructed an underground escape tunnel from the House of
Joy.
Which statement is false?
a. Drupada was the king of Dwaraka.
b. When they were older, Drupada scoffed at Drona's claim that they were friends.
c. Yudhishthira was the son of Kunti and Yama, and the eldest of the Pandavas.
d. Nalayani begged Isvara (Siva) to give her back her husband in all five of
his forms.
Which statement is false?
a. Drona was a brahmin by origin, but an expert in warfare and weapons.
b. By passing the archery test at the swayamvara, Arjuna was betrothed to Draupadi.
c. Santanu was king whose capital was at Varanavata..
d. Drona wanted his pupils to capture Drupada as his teacher's fee.
Which statement is false?
a. Ganga took the eighth child with her and later restored him to Santanu.
b. Drupada was brought back as a prisoner to Drona, who executed him on the
spot.
c. Dhritarashtra's eldest son was Duryodhana.
d. Krishna was the king of Dwaraka and leader of the Yadava people.
Which statement is false?
a. Drona trained the sons of Pandu and of Dhritarashtra and his own son, Aswathama.
b. Satyavati once ferried a rishi named Parasar across the river.
c. Draupadi was to live with each of the Pandava princes, one year at a time.
d. Karna wanted to engage Bhima in single combat.
Which statement is false?
a. Duryodhana was delighted to find in Karna a rival to Arjuna.
b. When Bhima was born, it caused an earthquake he was so powerful.
c. Yudhishthira was the one who actually won Draupadi at the swayamvara.
d. People assumed that the Pandavas had died in the fire at Varanavata.
Which statement is false?
a. Kunti put Karna in a basket and let him float down the river.
b. Duryodhana resented the tricks that Bhima played when they were children.
c. Yudhishthira was an incarnation of the god Vishnu.
d. Dhritarashtra married Gandhari, the princess of Gandhar.
Which statement is false?
a. Devaratha (Bhishma) renounced his claim to Santanu's throne.
b. The dying deer cursed Pandu so that he would also die when making love.
c. At Satyavati's request, Bhishma agreed to break his vow of celibacy.
d. The sons of Dhritarashtra and sons of Pandu later became enemies.
Which statement is false?
a. Dhritarashtra decided to send Yudhishthira to Varanavata.
b. As boys, Drona and Drupada had been friends.
c. Madri climbed up on to Pandu's funeral pyre and died.
d. Because Ambalika wore a white gown, her child with Vyasa was pale.
Which statement is false?
a. Bhima was the son of Kunti and Vayu, the fire god.
b. Santanu's wife drowned their first seven babies in the river.
c. Santanu fell in love with Satyavati, a fisherman's daughter.
d. Devaratha acquired the name Bhishma because of his vow of celibacy.
Which statement is false?
a. Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva are called the Pandavas.
b. Santanu's wife was the river Ganga.
c. Chitrangada became king after Santanu, but he was killed.
d. Amba, Ambika and Ambalika were the daughters of King Drupada.
Which statement is false?
a. The Pandavas used the secret tunnel to escape the House of Joy.
b. Drona kept all of Drupada's kingdom for himself, but he spared Drupada's
life.
c. The deer that Pandu killed was actually a celestial being.
d. Drupada's daughter was called Draupadi.
Which statement is false?
a. Bhima and the demon Hidimba had a son named Ghatotkacha.
b. Dhritarashtra was very pleased by Yudhishthira's popularity with the people.
c. Because Kunti inadvertently told her sons to share Draupadi, she married
all five of them.
d. Nakula and Sahadeva were experts with the sword.
Which statement is false?
a. Bhima and Duryodhana were experts with the mace.
b. Drupada was shocked that his daughter Draupadi would have five husbands.
c. Parasar changed Satyavati's fish smell to a lovely perfume.
d. Arjuna was the son of Kunti and Vayu, the wind god.
Which statement is false?
a. Vyasa was the son of Satyavati and the rishi Parasar.
b. Purochana had built a House of Joy for the Pandavas.
c. Pandu asked Kunti to share the mantra with Madri, but Kunti refused.
d. Arjuna rescued Drona from the crocodile.
Which statement is false?
a. Vidura was the son of Vyasa and Ambalika's serving maid.
b. Drupada, the king of Panchala, was holding a swayamvara.
c. Yudhishthira was an expert in chariot fighting.
d. Ganga took human form to give birth to an incarnation of Vishnu..
Which statement is false?
a. Because Ambika closed her eyes, her child with Vyasa was born blind.
b. Devaratha agreed to remain a bachelor and to produce no heirs.
c. The demon Hidimba fell in love with Bhima and they had a child together.
d. Karna was raised by Drona, and trained together with the Pandavas and Kauravas..
Which statement is false?
a. Ambika was repelled by Vyasa's appearance and closed her eyes.
b. Vyasa explained the Draupadi had been Nalayani in a previous life.
c. The eight vasus were attendants of the god Vishnu.
d. Bhima accused Karna of being a suta, or charioteer.
Which statement is false?
a. Satyavati summoned her son Vyasa to sleep with Vichitravirya's widows.
b. Duryodhana resented the attention that Drona paid to Arjuna.
c. Drupada's son Dhrishtadyumna was born from the fire.
d. Sanjaya was Dhritarashtra's first-born son.
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