Week 12: Buck's Mahabharata (pp. 93-189) Assignments - Reading Guide A - Reading Guide B - Mahabharata Resources

Reading Quiz: B

Which statement is false?
a. Vyasa visited the Pandavas in the forest.
b. Savitri was the daughter of a deer and an apsarasa.
c. When Mankanaka cut himself, grass juice came out instead of blood.
d. Chitraratha, the lord of the gandharvas, was Arjuna's friend.

Which statement is false?
a. The gods were worried that Mankanaka's dance was going to destroy the earth.
b. The goddess Lakshmi appeared to Duryodhana to encourage him.
c. Draupadi asked Bhima to go get her some more of the white lotuses.
d. Bhima was unable to move Hanuman's tail.

Which statement is false?
a. Duhsala was Duryodhana's wife.
b. Sakuni is Duryodhana's uncle.
c. There were peaks of gold and jewels and silver trees on Mount Kailasa.
d. When Rishyasringa came with Santa to the city, it caused the rains to come at last.

Which statement is false?
a. Karna told Duryodhana not to be ashamed of the outcome of the battle with the gandharvas.
b. Yama told Savitri to go back home and arrange for her husband's funeral.
c. Manibhadra told the Treasure Lord Vaisravana that a human being stood outside his palace.
d. Despite Draupadi's request that they kill Jayadratha on the spot, the Pandavas decided to let him go.

Which statement is false?
a. Savitri lived with her husband in the forest.
b. Urvasi's curse offered Arjuna a way to disguise himself in the thirteenth year of exile.
c. Karna told Duryodhana that it was his duty to kill himself after the shameful battle with the gandharvas.
d. Yama carried a small noose made of silver thread.

Which statement is false?
a. Krishna visited the Pandavas in the forest.
b. Savitri was forced by her father to marry Satyavan.
c. Hanuman blocked Bhima's path and said that he could not move out of the way.
d. Yudhishthira feared that if they killed Jayadratha it would provoke a war with Duryodhana.

Which statement is false?
a. Duhsala was married to king Jayadratha.
b. Savitri did not want to know how long she and her husband would live.
c. Rishyasringa had never seen another human being except for his father.
d. Mankanaka lived in the forest, eating deer that he hunted with arrows.

Which statement is false?
a. Jayadratha saw Draupadi in the forest.
b. Rishyasringa welcomed Santa to his home.
c. Yudhishthira told Bhima and Arjuna to rescue Duryodhana from the gandharvas.
d. Savitri asked to have one hundred husbands in place of Satyavan.

Which statement is false?
a. King Lomapada's advisors told him that a man with a pure heart could bring the rains.
b. When Jayadratha saw the Pandavas chasing him, he let Draupadi go.
c. Bhima is famous for his big appetite.
d. Duryodhana and Duhsala are sons of king Dhritarashtra.

Which statement is false?
a. Savitri was not impressed by the suitors who wanted to marry her.
b. Matali brought Arjuna back to rejoin his brothers on the earth.
c. Chitraratha grabbed Duryodhana and captured him in an iron net suspended from the sky.
d. The Pandavas found Jayadratha inside their forest hut, trying to grab Draupadi.

Which statement is false?
a. Matali was the chief of Indra's musicians and dancers.
b. Satyavan died while he was chopping wood.
c. Santa offered to help bring Rishyasringa to the city.
d. The goddess Kali appeared to Duryodhana as he prepared to end his life.

Which statement is false?
a. Satyavan was the son of a blind king living in exile in the forest.
b. Arjuna refused Urvasi and Urvasi cursed him to live for a year as a eunuch.
c. Siva came to Mankanaka and forced him to lie in the ashes for one hundred years.
d. Yama told Savitri she would have to surrender half her days on earth to get her husband back.

Which statement is false?
a. Savitri asked for permission to follow Yama.
b. With his breath, Bhima was able to blow away the armor worn by Vaisravana.
c. Indra taught Arjuna the use of divine weapons.
d. Karna was delighted by the news that Duryodhana was going to put an end to his life.

Which statement is false?
a. A little girl told Yudhishthira that Jayadratha had taken Draupadi away.
b. The minister told the king that Satyavan was going to die in one year.
c. Bhima was unable to bring the lotus flowers back to Draupadi as she had requested.
d. Arjuna brought heavenly ornaments and jewels back to give to Draupadi.

Which statement is false?
a. Indra ordered Chitraratha to teach Arjuna music and dancing.
b. Vaisravana is the god of weapons and war.
c. Rishyasringa married Santa, and the king gave him half of the palace.
d. Yama was impressed that Savitri was not afraid of him.

Which statement is false?
a. The hermit Vibhandaka saw Urvasi while she was bathing.
b. Lomapada had a golden chariot built to take his daughter to where Rishyasringa lived.
c. Savitri asked for the blindness of her father-in-law to be cured.
d. Hanuman will live as long as the story of the Ramayana is told.

Which statement is false?
a. When Vibhandaka's sperm fell into the lake it was swallowed by a fish.
b. Near Rishava's mountain, Yudhishthira disturbed the silence so the mountain attacked them.
c. Duryodhana wanted to build a pleasure house near where the Pandavas were living in exile.
d. In the twelfth year of their exile, the Pandavas came down from Mount Kailasa.

Which statement is false?
a. Yama is known as the Dharma-Raja, or Dharma-King.
b. Savitri asked for her own father to have one hundred sons.
c. The gandharvas prevented Duryodhana from building his pleasure house.
d. Santa was the father of the sage Rishyasringa.

Which statement is false?
a. Savitri went out into the forests to find a man she would marry.
b. In shame for his defeat by the gandharvas, Duryodhana resolved to die.
c. Vishnu is the god who fathered Arjuna.
d. The yakshas guarded the abode of Vaisravana on Mount Kailasa.

Which statement is false?
a. Jayadratha grabbed Draupadi and carried her off with him in his chariot.
b. Yama was the first man to die.
c. Rishyasringa and his father both came to live in the royal palace, giving up the forest life.
d. After the visit from the goddess Kali, Duryodhana decided to live rather than to die.

Which statement is false?
a. The god Siva came to collect Satyavan's soul.
b. Mankanaka was so happy that grass juice flowed in his veins that he danced and danced.
c. The Pandavas went on a journey to Mount Kailasa.
d. Chitraratha told his gandharvas to attack Duryodhana and his men.

Which statement is false?
a. Satyavan was born in the city but grew up in the forest.
b. Mankanaka's dance made the whole world start to dance with him.
c. Savitri set sail on a barge to go looking for the man she would marry.
d. Hanuman told Bhima where to find the lotus lake.

Which statement is false?
a. The gods sent Siva to put a stop to Mankanaka's dancing.
b. Yama offered to give Savitri a gift because he was impressed with her courage.
c. Draupadi said that Jayadratha had done her no harm.
d. Rishyasringa was the son of the god Indra and a deer.

Which statement is false?
a. A burning tree guided Satyavan and Savitri back to their home.
b. Jayadratha wanted Draupadi to go for a ride with him in his chariot.
c. Rishyasringa lived with his father in the wilderness, far away from any human settlement.
d. Bhima told the story of Mankanaka as a warning about the dangers of too much dancing.

Which statement is false?
a. Krishna used a grain of rice to feed the whole world.
b. Because of Mankanaka, Bhima did not want to give up eating deer for eating grass.
c. The king advised Savitri not to marry a man who was going to die in one year.
d. The country of Anga was suffering from attacks by demons who destroyed their livestock.

Which statement is false?
a. Chitraratha did not put Karna into the net because he knew no net could hold him.
b. Arjuna brought weapons from heaven with him when he came back to earth.
c. The deer said that the Pandavas were destroying the population of deer in the forest.
d. Vaisravana allowed Bhima to take away only one lotus flower from the lake.

Which statement is false?
a. At Arjuna's request, Chitraratha agreed to let Duryodhana go.
b. Draupadi asked Vyasa to tell them a love story.
c. Savitri wanted to marry Satyavan, even though she knew he would die in one year.
d. Yama was dark red in color, dressed in yellow robes.

Which statement is false?
a. Rishyasringa was a man from the shoulders up, but the rest of his body was that of a deer.
b. The gandharvas threw Sakuni and Duhsasana into the iron net.
c. Yama offered to tell Savitri how long she and her husband would live.
d. Manibhadra was the king of the Yakshas.

Which statement is false?
a. Santa kissed and hugged Rishyasringa and taught him how to play catch and tag.
b. When he came back to life, Satyavan said he had dreamed that he was being carried away.
c. The deer of the forest appeared to Yudhishthira in a dream.
d. Savitri asked for her father-in-law to be given a bigger and better house in the forest.

Which statement is false?
a. Satyavan lived with his father and mother in the forest.
b. Yama took half of the days of Savitri's life and gave them to her husband.
c. Bhima and Hanuman are both sons of Vayu, the wind god.
d. Vibhandaka told his son that the pleasant creature which had visited him was actually a gandharva.

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