Week 11: Buck's Mahabharata (pp. 1-91) Assignments - Reading Guide A - Reading Guide B - Mahabharata Resources

Reading Quiz: B

Which statement is false?
a. Bhima threw Vaka to the ground and broke his back.
b. Yudhishthira had Nakula and Sahadeva bring six corpses to leave behind in the burnt house.
c. Lakshmi appeared to Draupadi in a dream and told him how to obtain a son that would defeat Drona.
d. The asura Maya, the architect of the gods, sought Arjuna's protection from the fire god, Agni.

Which statement is false?
a. Drupada was instructed in a dream to pour two cups of butter into the fire, one for a son, one for a daughter.
b. After Bhima killed the rakshasa, the Pandavas had to leave that village and move on.
c. Dhrishtadyumna disguised himself as a poor man and went to see the Pandavas in their hiding place.
d. Duhsasana warned Yudhishthira about the danger of the fire-trap in coded language.

Which statement is false?
a. When Drona had Drupada in his power, he let him go, but demanded half of Drupada's kingdom for himself.
b. Agni wanted to eat the Khandava forest and needed Krishna and Arjuna's help.
c. Madri was the widow of King Pandu, and a mother to the Pandavas.
d. Vyasa took his mother Satyavati away to the forest so she would not have to see the coming disaster.

Which statement is false?
a. Agni gave Arjuna the bow Gandiva and he had an inexhaustible supply of arrows.
b. The god Varuna rides on a solar chariot.
c. Krishna and Balarama came from their city by the sea to witness Draupadi's swayamvara.
d. Bhima needed no weapon but his own strength in order to fight with the demon Vaka.

Which statement is false?
a. Krishna and Balarama congratulated Draupadi on her choice at the swayamvara.
b. Yudhishthira's father was the god Varuna.
c. The god Indra rides on a white elephant.
d. Dhritarashtra was blind from birth.

Which statement is false?
a. Krishna told Arjuna that he remembered their past lives together, but Arjuna did not remember.
b. Yama is the god of the dead.
c. With the iron discus of Vishnu, Arjuna was able to disperse Indra's rain clouds.
d. The Pandavas were still disguised as brahmans when they attended Draupadi's swayamvara.

Which statement is false?
a. Dhritarashtra was the brother of Pandu, father of the Pandavas.
b. Draupadi was born from the fire full-grown.
c. Kunti learned that a rakshasa king named Vaka was terrorizing the village of Ekachakra.
d. The god Skanda rides on a green snake.

Which statement is false?
a. Yudhishthira was the eldest of the Pandava brothers.
b. Vaka was a rakshasa king who terrified the village of Ekachakra.
c. Drupada was the ruler of the kingdom of Chedi.
d. As a reward for his rescue, Maya built a great palace for the Pandavas.

Which statement is false?
a. Bhishma is Yudhishthira's elder brother.
b. Krishna is an avatar of the god Vishnu.
c. Arjuna won Draupadi at her swayamvara, passing the archery test set by Drupada.
d. Agni came to Krishna and Arjuna in the former of a woodsman with gold skin dressed in black rags.

Which statement is false?
a. When Drona had gone to ask Drupada for help in his poverty, Drupada denied their friendship.
b. As Agni set the Khandava forest on fire, all the other fires in the world went out.
c. Krishna is the king of the Viratas, and his capital is at Kampilya.
d. Arjuna was the third-born of the Pandava brothers, and a great warrior.

Which statement is false?
a. Vyasa took Ambika, Ambalika and Vidura's mother away to the forest so they would not see the coming disaster.
b. The god Yama rides on a buffalo and carries a mace.
c. Skanda is the god of agriculture.
d. Duryodhana and his uncle Sakuni visited the palace of the Pandavas at Indraprastha.

Which statement is false?
a. Duhsasana was Dhritarashtra's half-brother, the son of Gandhari in a previous marriage.
b. After the fire, the Pandavas and Kunti wandered about, disguised as brahmans.
c. Bhima carried his mother and his brothers on his back when they were tired.
d. Nakula and Sahadeva were twins, the youngest of the five Pandava brothers.

Which statement is false?
a. Duhsasana and Duryodhana admitted to their father that the fire at Varanavata was no accident.
b. Krishna brought marriage gifts for both Subhadra but none for Draupadi.
c. Each time Agni tried to burn Khandava forest, Indra came and protected it with rain.
d. The god Yama is green in color.

Which statement is false?
a. Duryodhana and Duhsasana built a fire-trap for the Pandavas at Varanavata.
b. Bhima dragged the body of the dead rakshasa back to the village for them to see.
c. The Pandavas built the city of Indraprastha near the Khandava forest.
d. Ambika and Ambalika are the mothers of Bhishma and Vidura.

Which statement is false?
a. Duryodhana's agent Sakuni built a fire-trap for the Pandavas at Varanavata.
b. Krishna's father is Kunti's brother, making him a cousin of the Pandavas.
c. Because she comes from the kingdom of Panchala, Draupadi is sometimes called Panchali.
d. When Bhima was just one day old he had rescued Kunti from a tiger.

Which statement is false?
a. Duryodhana was Dhritarashtra's eldest son.
b. Every member of the villager's family wanted to be the human sacrifice in order to spare the others.
c. Duryodhana set the house in Varanavata on fire, killing his own agent, Purochana.
d. Varuna is the god of the ocean.

Which statement is false?
a. The Pandavas had a tunnel built from their house in Varanavata out to the river.
b. Dhritarashtra was enraged to learn that the Pandavas were still alive and that Draupadi was their wife.
c. Draupadi objected when Arjuna brought his new wife to Indraprastha, but Kunti welcomed her.
d. Gandhari put on a blindfold to share her husband's blindness.

Which statement is false?
a. Bhima was the second-born of the Pandavas, and enormously strong.
b. Duryodhana refused to attend the swayamvara of Draupadi out of loyalty to Drona.
c. Yudhishthira realized that they would need a tunnel to escape from the fire-trap in Varanavata.
d. Dhrishtadyumna told his father Drupada that the brahman had really been Arjuna in disguise.

Which statement is false?
a. Drupada intended for Draupadi to marry the great bowman, Arjuna.
b. With the death of King Pandu, Kunti became a widow.
c. Each month at full moon the villagers had to send Vaka a cartload of gold and a human sacrifice.
d. When Krishna and Arjuna challenged Indra, all the other gods came to watch.

Which statement is false?
a. Duryodhana was angry when his father gave the region of Khandava to the Pandava brothers to rule.
b. Drupada had been friends with Drona when they had been children together.
c. Dhritarashtra sent the Pandavas away to Varanavata for the festival of Siva.
d. The Aswins are the twin-gods of war and famine.

Which statement is false?
a. Vidura sent a boatman to carry the Pandavas away from Varanavata.
b. Duryodhana is the eldest son of Dhritarashtra and Gandhari.
c. Arjuna warned Sakuni that nothing good could come of this dice game.
d. Krishna used his bow Gandiva to shatter Indra's thunderbolt.

Which statement is false?
a. Agni is the god of fire.
b. Sakuni is the brother of Duryodhana's mother, Gandhari.
c. Drona was born a kshatriya, the son of an impoverished prince of Gandhara.
d. Krishna is from the city of Dwaravati (also called Dwaraka).

Which statement is false?
a. Bhima could smell how the house at Varanavata was made of pitch and resin to make it easy to burn.
b. Agni gave Krishna an iron discus.
c. The Pandavas had no weapon they could give to Bhima to use in his fight with Vaka.
d. Sakuni is Duryodhana's elder brother.

Which statement is false?
a. When he was drunk, Balarama used his plow to force the rivers of the Yamuna river to come to him.
b. Duryodhana objected when his father rejoiced at the new that the Pandavas were still alive.
c. Vidura was the brother of Dhritarashtra and Pandu, but he was the son of a naga princess.
d. Kampilya was the the capital city of Panchala, ruled by King Drupada.

Which statement is false?
a. Duryodhana, fooled by an illusion, fell into a pond of water in the Pandavas' palace.
b. Dhrishtadyumna brought the Pandavas with Kunti and Draupadi to Drupada's palace.
c. Krishna urged Arjuna to wait for Subhadra's swayamvara rather than abducting her.
d. For Draupadi's swayamvara, Drupada had had a bow made so stiff that only Arjuna could bend it.

Which statement is false?
a. Dhrishtadyumna was born from the fire wearing armor and holding a sword.
b. Over Kunti's objections, Yudhishthira sent Bhima out as the sacrifice in order to kill the demon Vaka.
c. Yudhishthira accepted Duryodhana and Sakuni's challenge to a game of dice.
d. Arjuna and Krishna agreed to ward off Indra while Agni burned Khandava forest.

Which statement is false?
a. Drupada begged the god Siva for a son who could defeat Drona.
b. Bhima mocked Duryodhana for being fooled by the illusions in the palace at Indraprastha.
c. Draupadi married Yudhishthira, Bhima and Arjuna, but not Nakula and Sahadeva, the sons of Madri.
d. Vaisravana is the treasure lord.

Which statement is false?
a. Drona asked his pupils to capture Drupada as his guru's fee for their teaching.
b. Arjuna fell in love with Krishna's daughter Subhadra.
c. The villagers celebrated and dedicated a tree in honor of the mysterious killer of the demon Vaka.
d. Surya is the god of the sun.

Which statement is false?
a. Dhrishtadyumna took the news to Dhritarashtra that the Pandavas were still alive.
b. Drupada was in despair after the humiliation of not having milk to give to his son Dhrishtadyumna.
c. Draupadi married Yudhishthira first, followed by each of the other brothers until she had married all five.
d. Balarama is Krishna's brother and Subhadra is Krishna's sister.

Which statement is false?
a. Vyasa took the Pandavas to Draupadi's swayamvara at Kampilya, Drupada's capital city.
b. Bhima was glad to go fight Vaka because he wanted to eat the cartload of food.
c. Airavata is the name of the white elephant that Indra rides.
d. Arjuna secretly stole Krishna's chariot in order to abduct Subhadra.

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