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

Reading Quiz: B

TAKE PRACTICE QUIZ

Which statement is false?
a. Uttanka gladly accepted the filthy hunter's offer of water and embraced him.
b. There was a flood which drowned the city of Dwaravati under the waves.
c. The Pandava brothers came to attend the death of Bhishma, together with Krishna.
d. Yudhishthira kept on walking after Draupadi and his brothers died, accompanied by a small dog.

Which statement is false?
a. Uttanka asked Krishna for water, and Krishna told Uttanka just to think of him whenever he needed water.
b. Yudhishthira went to the city of Hastinapura to declare that the war was officially over.
c. Although Krishna was not present when Parikshit was born, he brought the child back to life.
d. Yudhishthira finally agreed to abandon the dog in order to join his brothers in heaven.

Which statement is false?
a. Vidura was Duryodhana's half-brother.
b. Dhritarashtra retired into the forest together with Gandhari.
c. Janamejaya is a distant descendant of Bharata, as are all the Pandavas and Kauravas.
d. Krishna harshly rebuked Yudhishthira for his despair after the end of the battle.

Which statement is false?
a. Bhishma was still alive after the battle was over, waiting to choose the moment when he would die.
b. Dhritarashtra, together with Vidura and Vyasa, had come to attend Bhishma's death.
c. Bhishma put no curse on Yudhishthira for having led the army against him.
d. At Bhishma's request they did not burn his body but instead carried it to the top of Mount Kailasa.

Which statement is false?
a. The mongoose was gold on one side of its body only.
b. Bhima prepared a feast in Dhritarashtra's forest retreat.
c. Indra told Yudhishthira that he must abandon the dog in order to ascend to heaven.
d. Subhadra was afraid to ride in Krishna's new chariot, but Krishna persuaded her it was safe.

Which statement is false?
a. Vaisampayana is reciting the Mahabharata to King Janamejaya, the son of Parikshit.
b. Yudhishthira heard the voices of his brothers and Draupadi calling to him in the depths of hell.
c. Krishna's home of Dwaravati was located on the island kingdom of Lanka.
d. Bhishma spoke his last words to Krishna.

Which statement is false?
a. The mongoose told Yudhishthira the story of a poor family visited by Yama disguised as an old man.
b. Ugrasena was delighted when Krishna returned home to Dwaravati.
c. Yudhishthira praised the gods even in hell, since he had accept everything with tranquility of spirit.
d. Astika was half-human and half-serpent, since his mother had been a naga.

Which statement is false?
a. Yudhishthira offered to give the mongoose a gift.
b. Vaitarani is the river of hell.
c. Indraprastha was where the Pandavas had built their mighty palace, with the help of Maya.
d. A beautiful apsaras approached Uttanka and offered him water in a lotus petal.

Which statement is false?
a. When Yudhishthira entered Hastinapura, Charvaka bowed down and worshiped him.
b. Sanjaya was away fetching water at the river when the forest fire trapped Dhritarashtra, Gandhari and Kunti.
c. Satyaki took Krishna and the Pandavas to see Bhishma.
d. Dhritarashtra was sad to realize that Yudhishthira treated him so much better than Duryodhana ever did.

Which statement is false?
a. Kama is the god of love.
b. While traveling from Kurujangala to his home in Dwaravati, Krishna met the sage Uttanka in the desert.
c. Yudhishthira awoke from his dream and found Draupadi beside him on the field of Kurukshetra.
d. Vaisampayana is the son of Parikshit, and was the last of the Pandava kings.

Which statement is false?
a. Vyasa fathered both Dhritarashtra and Vidura.
b. The rakshasa Charvaka, who had been Duryodhana's friend, disguised himself as a small dog.
c. Rejoicing over Parikshit's birth, Indra sent a huge but completely harmless storm upon the earth.
d. At first Krishna was not happy with the beautiful new chariot because he did not want something ostentatious.

Which statement is false?
a. Parikshit was the only surviving child of the Pandava line, so he was destined to become king.
b. Uttanka expected that the great Krishna would have put a stop to the war.
c. Yudhishthira was made king at Hastinapura but there was no coronation ceremony because of mourning for the dead.
d. Kunti preferred to go live in the retreat of the forest rather than to stay at Hastinapura with her sons.

Which statement is false?
a. Yudhishthira banished Dhritarashtra from Hastinapura, and sent him into exile in the forest.
b. Yudhishthira, his brothers, and Draupadi abandoned the world and headed towards the north.
c. Dhritarashtra told Yudhishthira that kings ought to die in war, or in the forest.
d. Krishna explained to Uttanka that he could not alter destiny, and so he was not able to stop the war.

Which statement is false?
a. During the years of her sons' exile, Kunti had stayed in Hastinapura.
b. Yudhishthira went to visit Dhritarashtra in the forest.
c. Bhishma bore no anger towards anyone at the time of his death.
d. Vidura was the son of Vyasa and the river Ganga.

Which statement is false?
a. Yudhishthira wanted to see his brothers in heaven but he did not find them there.
b. Ganga was grief-stricken over the death of her son Bhishma.
c. A gandharva took Yudhishthira into the depths of hell.
d. Gandhari had put a blindfold on her eyes in order to share her husband's blindness.

Which statement is false?
a. Bhishma chose to die at the autumnal equinox, where light and dark are in perfect balance.
b. Vyasa explained that Vidura and Yudhishthira were both one, because they were both Dharma.
c. Vidura and Sanjaya also went with Dhritarashtra into the forest.
d. The dog turned out to be Lord Dharma, who had been testing his Yudhishthira.

Which statement is false?
a. Krishna had wanted for Uttanka to accept the hunter and his water, despite appearances.
b. Yudhishthira is the son of Lord Dharma.
c. Vaitarani flows with blood and marrow, hair and fat.
d. Indra cursed Parikshit when he was born.

Which statement is false?
a. Dhritarashtra was old and decided to go live a life of meditation in the forest.
b. Parikshit had been injured by the Brahma weapon launched by Aswatthaman.
c. Dwaravati and Dwaraka are both names for the city that was Krishna's home.
d. Subhadra was Draupadi's sister.

Which statement is false?
a. The mongoose tried to become gold all over by attending every display of generosity.
b. Dhritarashtra refused to participate in the ritual ceremony inaugurating Yudhishthira as king.
c. Satyaki is Krishna's charioteer.
d. The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year.

Which statement is false?
a. Yama revealed his identity to the poor family and rewarded them by taking them to heaven.
b. Yudhishthira proclaimed a festival where he gave all his possessions away so he could go live in the forest.
c. Together with Krishna, Arjuna had helped Agni to burn down the Khandava forest long ago.
d. In a dream, Yudhishthira saw himself crossing a desert with his brothers and Draupadi.

Which statement is false?
a. Because of his compassion for the dog, Yudhishthira gained entrance to heaven.
b. When Bhishma died, his body vanished, and a heap of lotus petals was left in its place.
c. The mongoose had turned partly gold from rolling in the flour in the house of a poor man.
d. Takshaka the Naga lord took Astika with him into the Naga kingdoms under the world.

Which statement is false?
a. A mongoose came to Yudhishthira's festival and rolled in the flour spilled on the ground.
b. Dhritarashtra offered Yudhishthira gifts of wild roots and of water.
c. On their desert journey, Draupadi falls down dead, as do each of the brothers.
d. The asura Maya had stolen Krishna's chariot, so Balarama had built a brand-new chariot.

Which statement is false?
a. Yudhishthira, together with his brothers and a large entourage, went to find Dhritarashtra in the forest.
b. Vidura entered into Yudhishthira's body, leaving his own body behind, lifeless.
c. Indra's chariot descended to Yudhishthira and offered to take him to heaven.
d. The river Ganga was the mother of Vidura.

Which statement is false?
a. Dhritarashtra and his wife Gandhari were both born blind.
b. Vyasa led Dhritarashtra into a retreat deep in the forest.
c. On his visit to hell, Yudhishthira was defiant and ready to challenge the gods.
d. Subhadra was married to Arjuna.

Which statement is false?
a. The great battle of the Mahabharata was fought on the field of Kurukshetra.
b. Yuyutsu was the son of Dhritarashtra and a serving woman.
c. Ugrasena was Krishna's brother.
d. Yudhishthira saw Duryodhana, Sakuni and Duhsasana in heaven.

Which statement is false?
a. Sanjaya was Dhritarashtra's youngest son.
b. Among the brahmins who greeted Yudhishthira at Hastinapura was a rakshasa disguised as a hermit.
c. When Vaisampayana speaks to King Janamejaya, he calls him Bharata.
d. Arjuna found that the Khandava forest had grown up again and that Indraprastha was in ruins.

Which statement is false?
a. Yudhishthira was outraged that Duryodhana found a place in heaven, while his brothers were in hell.
b. The brahmins of Hastinapura uttered a mantra which killed the rakshasa Charvaka.
c. Jara the hunter killed Krishna to avenge the death of his sons in the great battle.
d. Kunti led Dhritarashtra and Gandhari into the forest.

Which statement is false?
a. As Ganga wept for Bhishma, her tears turned into lotuses.
b. Yudhishthira gave the mongoose some eggs and milk, and a piece of red silk for the mongoose's wife to wear.
c. When the serpent Sesha withdrew his energy from Balarama, Balarama died.
d. Bhima was in despair that he had brought about so much death and destruction, so he retired to the forest.

Which statement is false?
a. When Arjuna went to Indraprastha, he met the god Agni who burnt Arjuna's weapons to ashes.
b. Subhadra, Krishna's sister, gave birth to Parikshit, but he was born dead.
c. Jara the hunter mistook the sole of Krishna's foot for the face of a deer.
d. Because Dhritarashtra and Gandhari could not see, Kunti led them about in the forest.

Which statement is false?
a. All the inhabitants of Dwaravati perished, except for Krishna and his brother Balarama.
b. Yuyutsu was Dhritarashtra's only surviving son.
c. Yudhishthira would not abandon the dog that was under his protection.
d. Dhritarashtra, together with the queens Gandhari and Kunti, drowned in a flood of the Sarayu river.

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