Week 14: Buck's Mahabharata (pp. 307-412) Assignments - Reading Guide A - Reading Guide B - Mahabharata Resources

Reading Quiz: A

TAKE PRACTICE QUIZ

Which statement is false?
a. The bodies of Jayadratha and Salya were burnt on pyres.
b. Drona had destroyed Arjuna's chariot two days before the end of the battle.
c. Dhrishtadyumna was the only person who escaped the night raid on the camp.
d. Kuru was a distant ancestor of Duryodhana and Yudhishthira.

Which statement is false?
a. When Vyasa entered the Ganges he caused a vision of an army of the dead to rise up.
b. Krishna and the Pandavas were peacefully sleeping in the camp when Aswatthaman raided it.
c. Human beings used to have wings and to live in the air.
d. Balarama said that Bhima by striking Duryodhana in the thigh had broken the rules of fighting.

Which statement is false?
a. Aswatthaman dressed all in white in order to make his night raid on the Pandavas.
b. Duryodhana told Kripa to make Aswatthaman the commanding general even though the battle was over.
c. Sanjaya, with Kripa, Kritavarman and Aswatthaman found Duryodhana in agony, but still alive.
d. Aswatthaman was in possession of the Brahma-astra, or the deadly Brahma mantra.

Which statement is false?
a. Only a few survivors were left on either side after the great battle and the night raid on the camp.
b. When confronted by Yudhishthira, Kunti denied that Karna was his brother.
c. The three surviving warriors from Duryodhana's army were Kripa, Kritavarman and Aswatthaman.
d. Duryodhana had made the waters of the lake impenetrable.

Which statement is false?
a. Kripa, along with Drona, had been one of the teachers, or gurus, to the young Pandavas and Kauravas.
b. Duryodhana and Bhima fought with maces.
c. The pale giant with the tiger skin and the three eyes is a manifestation of Siva.
d. Sanjaya, like Dhritarashtra, was blind.

Which statement is false?
a. Originally, people were immortal, so the weight of people on the Earth was continually growing.
b. Aswatthaman removed the jewel from his forehead and gave it to Arjuna.
c. Krishna used his discus to kill Duryodhana in order to rescue Bhima.
d. Kunti is the mother of Karna and of Yudhishthira, Bhima and Arjuna.

Which statement is false?
a. Duryodhana was overjoyed when he heard that Aswatthaman had killed Sikhandin.
b. Arjuna spoke the words of the Brahma weapon to counteract Aswatthaman.
c. After shattering the statue, Dhritarashtra was able to embrace and bless the Pandavas.
d. Dhrishtadyumna's driver told the Pandavas the next morning how Aswatthaman had raid the camp.

Which statement is false?
a. The Panchalas were the armies led by Krishna and Kritavarman.
b. The bodies of Drona and Karna were burn on pyres.
c. Siva begged Brahma not to kill all the people with fire.
d. Aswatthaman is the son of Drona.

Which statement is false?
a. Aswatthaman found the camp guarded by a pale giant dressed in a tiger skin, who had three eyes.
b. Although Kunti revealed the truth to him, Yudhishthira never told anyone that Karna had been his brother.
c. Krishna urged Arjuna to hurry and stop Bhima from attacking Aswatthaman.
d. Balarama led Bhima and Duryodhana to the place where they would fight their duel with maces.

Which statement is false?
a. Krishna and Vyasa were both slain by the Brahma weapons of Aswatthaman and Arjuna.
b. Aswatthaman entered the camp and killed Dhrishtadyumna.
c. Duryodhana was unhappy with the raid on the camp because the Pandava brothers had not been killed.
d. Krishna held Bhima back and gave Dhritarashtra the statue of Bhima to embrace.

Which statement is false?
a. Sanjaya was Dhritarashtra's chariot driver.
b. The bodies of Duryodhana and his brothers and Sakuni were burnt on pyres.
c. Aswatthaman slaughtered the Panchalas in his night raid after the great battle.
d. Gandhari turned away but not fast enough: her anger blinded Yudhishthira in one eye.

Which statement is false?
a. As Brahma held the fire with in himself, Death emerged.
b. Recalling the Brahma weapon was an even greater effort than launching it.
c. After Duryodhana's death, Sanjaya lost the supernatural power of sight he had been given by Vyasa.
d. At the gambling match, Bhima had vowed that he would defeat Duryodhana in battle and behead him.

Which statement is false?
a. Arjuna placed Aswatthaman's jewel between Drona's eyes.
b. Duryodhana emerged from the lake ready to fight one of the Pandavas.
c. To alleviate the burden of the Earth, Brahma was prepared to destroy the people with fire.
d. Gandhari is the mother of Dhritarashtra.

Which statement is false?
a. Karna had taught Aswatthaman the secret of the deadly Brahma-astra weapon.
b. Dhrishtadyumna was Draupadi's brother.
c. Bhima broke Duryodhana's thighs with his mace.
d. Krishna had held Arjuna's chariot together using the power of illusion.

Which statement is false?
a. Kritavarman returned to his home in Dwaravati (Dwaraka).
b. Drupada and his son Sikhandin were allies of Duryodhana.
c. Balarama is Krishna's brother.
d. Dhritarashtra was distraught when he thought he had killed Bhima.

Which statement is false?
a. Men grew heavy from tasting of the earth, lost their wings, and could no longer fly.
b. Kunti is the mother of the five Pandava brothers: Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva.
c. Virata and Uttara had been allies of the Pandavas.
d. When Aswatthaman offered himself up as a sacrifice to Siva, he was able to gain entrance to the camp.

Which statement is false?
a. Vyasa composed the Mahabharata for the benefit of humanity.
b. Duryodhana was glad that he was going to fight Bhima.
c. Kuru had foreseen that Kurukshetra would become a battlefield.
d. Of the five Pandava brothers, the two twins - Nakula and Sahadeva - were killed in the great battle.

Which statement is false?
a. Aswatthaman had to let his anger go to recall the weapon.
b. Aswatthaman had a jewel in the center of his chest that radiated light in the darkness.
c. Aswatthaman brought news to Duryodhana that he had killed Dhrishtadyumna and Sikhandin.
d. Vaisampayana is a pupil of Vyasa, reciting the Mahabharata to King Janamejaya.

Which statement is false?
a. Gandhari is the mother of Duryodhana.
b. Sanjaya, with Kripa, Kritavarman and Aswatthaman went to see the dying Duryodhana.
c. Yudhishthira proposed that Duryodhana come out of the lake and fight one of the Pandavas.
d. Duryodhana would rather become a slave than lose his life on the battlefield.

Which statement is false?
a. The broken chariots were used to make funeral pyres on the battlefield.
b. All the trees and animals trembled when Aswatthaman prepared to launch the Brahma weapon.
c. Dhrishtadyumna's driver escaped the night raid because he was a devoted follower of the god Siva.
d. The bodies of Virata and Uttara were burnt on pyres.

Which statement is false?
a. The bodies of Drupada and Dhrishtadyumna and Sikhandin were burnt on pyres.
b. Drona finally led the ghostly soldiers to heaven, flying on ghostly eagles.
c. Aswatthaman attacked the camp thinking he would find the Pandavas there.
d. Krishna was not pleased that Yudhishthira had offered Duryodhana the chance to fight one last time.

Which statement is false?
a. Aswatthaman had a jewel on his forehead that gave light.
b. Aswatthaman had obtained the Brahma weapon from Krishna after stealing Krishna's discus.
c. Aswatthaman entered the camp and killed Sikhandin.
d. As Aswatthaman launched his weapons at the giant Siva, Siva swallowed them up.

Which statement is false?
a. Aswatthaman wanted to kill Krishna and the Pandavas.
b. Duryodhana had kept at iron statue of Bhima that he used to practice hitting.
c. Arjuna and Aswatthaman both recalled the Brahma weapons they had launched.
d. Kurukshetra means "Kuru is Great" or "Kuru is Mighty."

Which statement is false?
a. Kritavarman was the leader of Krishna's armies who had fought on Duryodhana's side in the battle.
b. Arjuna took Aswatthaman's jewel and hurled it onto Sikhandin's funeral pyre.
c. Vidura and Yuyutsu brought the widows from Hastinapura to Kurukshetra to mourn.
d. Sanjaya was supposed to observe the battle and then go back and tell everything he saw to Dhritarashtra.

Which statement is false?
a. Dhrishtadyumna's driver was the only person who escaped the raid on the night camp.
b. Aswatthaman destroyed his chariot and weapons and walked by the Ganges.
c. King Janamejaya is a distant ancestor of the Pandavas.
d. The widows of the slain soldiers tried to reassemble their bodies.

Which statement is false?
a. Kripa urged Aswatthaman to attack the camp at night and kill the Pandavas.
b. Vyasa helped Aswatthaman to recall the Brahma weapon.
c. Aswatthaman had burned a tree where Dhrishtadyumna's driver had been hiding.
d. Krishna brought Uttara's child back to life in the womb.

Which statement is false?
a. Rakshasas enter the Pandava camp to feast on the blood and bones of the slain warriors.
b. Yudhishthira asked Gandhari to lay her curse upon him.
c. In his grief, Dhritarashtra squeezed the statue of Yudhishthira and shattered it.
d. When they still had wings, men would fly down to get a taste of earth.

Which statement is false?
a. Brahma made disease and war from the tears of Death.
b. Bhima followed Aswatthaman's trail from the camp.
c. The Pandavas never learned who had killed all the warriors in the night raid on the camp.
d. The child in Uttara's womb had been killed by Aswatthaman's weapon.

Which statement is false?
a. When the ghostly army took human form, the enemy soldiers no longer hated each other.
b. The three surviving warriors from Duryodhana's army were Drona, Sakuni and Aswatthaman.
c. Uttara's son would be Parikshit, the father of Janamejaya.
d. Drona had taught the Brahma weapon to both Arjuna and to Aswatthaman.

Which statement is false?
a. Earth could not bear the weight of all the people after men lost their wings.
b. After the battle was over, Arjuna's chariot turned into ashes.
c. The rakshasas who guarded the Pandava camp prevented Aswatthaman from entering the camp.
d. Aswatthaman, Kripa and Kritavarman went away and left Sanjaya alone with Duryodhana.

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