Week 10: Narayan's Mahabharata (pp. 83-179) Assignments - Reading Guide A - Reading Guide B - Mahabharata Resources

Reading Quiz: B

TAKE PRACTICE QUIZ

Which statement is false?
a. The sons of Draupadi survived the war by staying with her at Upaplavya.
b. Gandhari accused Krishna of having committed terrible crimes during the war.
c. Arjuna told Yudhishthira that fighting brings glory.
d. As Drona sat in a trance of despair, Dhrishtadyumna cut off his head.

Which statement is false?
a. Krishna used his discus to cast a shadow over the sun and make it seem to be sunset.
b. Dhritarashtra begged that he be made blind again so he would not have to see the death of his sons.
c. Dhritarashtra was enraged that Krishna prevented him from killing Bhima.
d. Krishna manifested himself in his divine form to Arjuna.

Which statement is false?
a. While on his mission to Hastinapura, Krishna manifested himself in his divine form.
b. Dhritarashtra was so stricken by grief that he wanted to kill Bhima.
c. Karna agreed to fight on the condition that Bhishma must also be engaged in the battle.
d. Arjuna told Yudhishthira that all of life ended in death.

Which statement is false?
a. When Parasurama awoke and saw Karna bleeding, he realized Karna had to be a kshatriya.
b. Yudhishthira wanted to give up the throne and make Abhimanyu king instead of him.
c. As a demon warrior, Ghatotkacha preferred to fight by night.
d. Duryodhana used mystic powers to hide himself at the bottom of a lake.

Which statement is false?
a. Arjuna told Yudhishthira that the people needed a firm ruler.
b. When Jayadratha saw the setting sun he thought he had escaped Arjuna's vengeance.
c. Dhritarashtra wanted to imprison Krishna when he arrived at Hastinapura as an emissary.
d. Bhishma recognized the woman Amba in Sikhandin and therefore could not attack.

Which statement is false?
a. Yudhishthira wanted to live a life of renunciation and penance in the forest.
b. Yuyutsu survived the war by defecting from Duryodhana's camp and joining the Pandavas.
c. Bhima fought bravely but had vowed not to lay hands on any of the sons of Dhritarashtra.
d. Duryodhana denounced Krishna's tricks during the battle.

Which statement is false?
a. Karna was bitten by a demon that had taken the form of a centipede crawling on his thigh.
b. Karna promised Kunti that he would seek to kill Arjuna but not any other of her sons.
c. Parasurama cursed Karna so that at the crucial moment his chariot wheel would slip in the mud.
d. When Yudhishthira told Drona about Aswatthaman's death, he barely whispered "the elephant."

Which statement is false?
a. Karna tricked Parasurama into being his guru and teaching him about weapons.
b. Krishna tricked Jayadratha into thinking that the sun was setting.
c. Krishna realized that the grief-stricken Dhritarashtra wanted to kill Bhima.
d. Krishna urged Arjuna to show mercy to Karna while his chariot was stuck.

Which statement is false?
a. Bhima tore off Duhsasana's hand and flung it at Duryodhana.
b. After Bhishma fell, Drona was made the commanding general of Duryodhana's armies.
c. After he fell, fatally wounded, Bhishma told Duryodhana to avenge his death.
d. Karna begged for Bhishma's forgiveness after he fell in battle.

Which statement is false?
a. Karna pretended to be a brahmin, not a warrior, in order to learn from Parasurama.
b. Krishna reminded Bhima of his vow to smash Duryodhana's thigh.
c. Krishna was unmoved by Gandhari's curse and said he already knew what the future held.
d. A hunter shot and killed Krishna to avenge the death of his son in the great war.

Which statement is false?
a. In the power of his grief, Dhritarashtra crushed the statue, thinking it was Bhima.
b. In order to get revenge on Bhishma, the woman Amba sought reincarnation as a demon warrior.
c. Krishna urged Yudhishthira to go see Bhishma before he died and to learn from him.
d. The great battle took place on the field of Kurukshetra.

Which statement is false?
a. Jayadratha hid at the bottom of a lake in order to escape the sworn vengeance of Arjuna.
b. Dhritarashtra, Gandhari and Kunti went to live in the forest and died in a forest fire.
c. At Bhishma's death, his mother, the river Ganga, came to receive his soul.
d. Gandhari could not be consoled in her grief for her sons and she cursed Krishna.

Which statement is false?
a. A hermit had put a curse on Karna so that his chariot wheel would be swallowed by the earth.
b. Abhimanyu knew how to penetrate the formation but he did not know how to escape.
c. The Bhagavad-Gita is a central text in Hindu religion and philosophy.
d. Vidura was the only son of Dhritarashtra to have survived the war.

Which statement is false?
a. Karna was unable to remember how to use the Brahmastra weapon when he fought with Arjuna.
b. Before the battle, Krishna went to Hastinapura as an emissary of the Pandavas.
c. Sahadeva, Nakula and Draupadi all rebuked Yudhishthira for his reluctance to rule.
d. Ghatotkacha was Bhima's son, and his mother was Subhadra, the sister of Krishna.

Which statement is false?
a. Arjuna stood behind Sikhandin and shot arrows at Bhishma.
b. Dhritarashtra was filled with delight when he thought he had killed Bhima.
c. Duryodhana was defiant and rejected Krishna's pleas for peace when he came as an emissary.
d. In order to not wake Parasurama, Karna had suffered incredible pain without flinching.

Which statement is false?
a. The Bhagavad-Gita advocates dedication to duty with a spirit of detachment.
b. Arjuna told Yudhishthira that only as king could he bring about justice in the world.
c. Bhima killed an elephant that was named Drona.
d. Krishna substituted a metal statue for Bhima, and Dhritarashtra embraced the statue.

Which statement is false?
a. The Pandavas together with Vidura, Sanjaya and Dhritarashtra, performed rituals for the dead.
b. Bhishma was a very old man, considered to be a grandfather to both the Pandavas and the Kauravas.
c. The brahmin class is made up of warriors and kings, while the kshatriyas are priests.
d. Arjuna accused Yudhishthira of rejecting Lakshmi, the goddess of good fortune.

Which statement is false?
a. Bhima sucked the blood from Duhsasana's body as he had vowed to do.
b. Krishna's speech of advice to Arjuna just before the battle is called the Bhagavad-Gita.
c. Krishna lowered the chariot into the ground to protect Arjuna from Karna's attack.
d. Of the Pandavas, Arjuna was the only one eager for the war and uninterested in peace.

Which statement is false?
a. Arjuna despaired when he faced his guru and family elders in the enemy lines.
b. Yudhishthira told Drona that his brother Bhima was dead.
c. Karna told Kunti that he considered the charioteer and his wife who raised him to be his parents.
d. The Pandava line carried on through the son of Abhimanyu, who was the son of Arjuna.

Which statement is false?
a. Jayadratha, Duryodhana's brother-in-law, was able to trap Arjuna behind enemy lines.
b. As the battle began, Duryodhana made Bhishma the supreme commander of his armies.
c. Karna's wheel got stuck in a rut in the mud when he was fighting Arjuna.
d. Arjuna told Yudhishthira that the gods of war and slaughter were the ones who got respect.

Which statement is false?
a. Abhimanyu was the son of Arjuna and Uttara, the daughter of King Virata.
b. Duryodhana emerged from the lake and fought with Bhima.
c. Yudhishthira had not known that Karna was Kunti's son and saw Karna's death as a great sin.
d. Duryodhana rejoiced when Karna joined in the battle.

Which statement is false?
a. Convinced that his son was dead, Drona went into a frenzy and killed his own allies.
b. Karna begged a halt to the fight with Arjuna while he freed his chariot.
c. Arjuna told Yudhishthira it was their duty to rule and to be happy.
d. Krishna revealed to Dhritarashtra that he had destroyed only a statue, not Bhima.

Which statement is false?
a. Krishna told Duryodhana that the warriors had brought about their own deaths.
b. Bhishma spoke to Karna about his true parentage and urged him to make peace with the Pandavas.
c. In Arjuna's absence, Abhimanyu was asked to break through the enemy's formation.
d. Krishna praised Karna for his unswerving loyalty to Duryodhana.

Which statement is false?
a. As Krishna slept on the bank of a river he was killed by a hunter.
b. Karna refused to fight until Bhishma apologized to him and gave him all his weapons.
c. When Jayadratha saw the setting sun he came out of hiding and was killed by Arjuna.
d. Bhima rebuked Drona for having lived as a warrior even though he was born a brahmin.

Which statement is false?
a. Yudhishthira performed Bhishma's funeral ceremony when the old warrior finally died.
b. Krishna's people destroyed themselves in a civil war and his city was swallowed by the sea.
c. Before he died, Duryodhana begged Yudhishthira's forgiveness for all that had happened.
d. When Yudhishthira tried to refuse the throne, Bhima accused him of being selfish.

Which statement is false?
a. Arjuna's bow was a divine weapon called Gandiva.
b. Parasurama was a great enemy of the kshatriya (warrior) class.
c. Karna had an invincible weapon obtained from Indra that could be used one time only.
d. Yudhishthira smashed Duryodhana's thigh and fatally wounded him.

Which statement is false?
a. Duryodhana's armies were exactly equal in number to the armies of Yudhishthira.
b. Krishna proposed that they lie and tell Drona that his son Aswatthaman was dead.
c. Sanjaya watched the troops assemble and described their movements to the blind Dhritarashtra.
d. Karna had planned to use his invincible weapon on Arjuna, but used it on Ghatotkacha instead.

Which statement is false?
a. Karna had once killed a hermit's cow.
b. At Krishna's urging, Arjuna reluctantly killed Karna when he was helpless and unable to fight.
c. Trapped by Jayadratha's maneuver, Abhimanyu was cut down and killed on the battlefield.
d. As Bhishma fell from his chariot, fatally wounded, the river Ganges swept him away in a flood.

Which statement is false?
a. Krishna explained to Gandhari that it was her sons' karma that brought about their deaths.
b. Because they were in mourning, Yudhishthira's coronation was not celebrated with any ritual.
c. Drona asked Yudhishthira if it was really true that Bhima had killed Aswatthaman.
d. Arjuna vowed to kill Jayadratha before the next day came to a close.

Which statement is false?
a. Arjuna vowed revenge on Karna when he learned of Abhimanyu's death.
b. Dhritarashtra regained his sight to see the divine manifestation of Krishna.
c. Sahadeva killed Sakuni, Duryodhana's uncle.
d. When Bhima yelled, "I have killed Aswatthaman!", Drona heard him.

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