A Quiz on the Ramayan.
Q.1
Who wrote the Ramayan ?.
Answer
-The great sage Valmiki wrote the Ramayan ?
Q.
2 What language is Ramayan written in?
Answer.
The Ramayan is written in Sanskrit.
Q.
3.How many kandas are there in the Ramayan?
Ans.
There are seven kaands in the Ramayan.
Q.4.
What are the names of the kaands of the Ramayan?
Ans.
The names of the kaands are - Baal Kaand, Ayodhya kaand, Aranya Aryana kaand,
Kishkindha kaand, Sundar Kaand, Yuddha Kaand and Uttar kaand.
Q.
5 In which yuga was the Ramayan written?
Ans-
The Ramayan was written in the Treta Yug.
Q.
6 How many shlokas are there in the Ramayan?
Ans.
There are 24000 (twenty four thousand shlokas) in the Ramayan.
Q.
7 Where was Ram born?
Ans-
Ram was born in Ayodhya.
Q.
8 What were the names of Ram's father and mother ?
Ans.
Ram's father was Dasharth and his mother was Kaushlya.
Q.
9 How many queens did the king Dashrath have?
Ans-
The King Dasharath had three queens.
Q.
10 What were the names of the three queens of king Dasharath?
Ans-
The names of the king Dasharath's queen's were Kaushlya, sumitra and kekai.
Q.
11 How many brothers did Ram have?
Ans-
Ram had four brothers
Q.12
What were the names of Ram’s brothers?
Ans-
The names of Ram’s were Laxman, Bharat and Shatraghna.
Q.
13 What was the name of Bharat's mother?
Ans-
Bharat's mother's name was kekai,
Q.
14 Who was the mother of Laxman and Shatrughan ?
Ans.
Their mother was sumitra.
Q.
15. Which sage took Ram and Laxman to fight with demons?
Ans
.- The sage Vishwamitra took them to fight with the demons.
Q.16
Which demons did Ram kill When he was with the sage Vishvamitra ?
Ans-
He killed Tadka and Subahoo.
Q.17.
After killing Tadaka and Subahu, where did Vishwamitra take Ram and
Laxman?
Ans.
He took them to Mithila.
18.
Who was the king of Mithila?
Ans-
Janak was the king of Mithila.
Q.19.
Where did the king Janak find sita?
Ans.
He found sita while he was ploughing a site.
Q.20.
What was the name of the bow which Lord Ram broke?
Ans.
The name of the bow was Pinaak.
Q.21.
Whom did king Dashrath want to make the king of Ayodhya?
Ans.
He wanted to make Ram the king of Ayodhya?
Q.22.
How did Kekai react to the news of Ram's making the crown prince?
Ans.
- She happily accepted the news.
Q.23.
Why did Kekai change her mind ?
Ans.-
On the advice of Manthra, Kekai changed her mind.
Q.24.
Who was Manthara ?
Ans.
- She was the maid of Kekai.
Q.25
What did Manthra want Kekai to do?
Ans.-
Manthra wanted Kekai to ask Dasarath to make Bharat the Crown prince.
Q.
26 Why did Dasharath grant two boons to Kekai ?
Ans.
- Dasharath granted two boons to Kekai because she had saved his life
during the war in the past.
Q.
27. What were the two boons?
Ans,
- The two boons were to send Ram to the forest for fourteen years and to make
Bharat the crown prince.
Q.28.
Who went to the forest with Ram?
Ans.
- Sita and Laxman went to the forest with Ram.
Q.29.
Where did Ram, Laxman and sita meet the sage Bhardwaj?
Ans.
- They met him at Prayag.
Q.
30. Who advised Ram to stay at Chitrakoot?
Ans.-
The sage Bhardwaj advised Ram to Stay on the Chitrakoot mountain.
Q.
31, Where did Ram, Laxman and sita go from Chitrakoor?
Ans.
- They went to Panchvati.
Q.
32. Who was Surpanakha ?
Ans.-
She was the sister of Ravan.
Q.33
Who cut the nose of Surpanakha?
Ans.-
Laxman cut off the nose of Surpanakha.
34.
Who took the form of a beautiful golden deer ?
Ans-
Marich took the form of a beautiful golden deer.
35-
Who kidnapped Sita?
Ans.-
Ravan, the king of Lanka, Kidnapped sita.
Q.
36. Who tried to save Sita from Ravan?
Ans.-
Jatayu, the king of eagles, tried to save Sita
Q.37.
Who advised Ram to go to Sugriva to get help?
Ans.
- A Demon, named Kabandha, advised Ram to get Sugriva’s help.
Q.38.
Who helped Ram to search for Sita?
Ans
- Sugriva and his army helped him.
Q.
39. Who went to Lanka to find sita?
Ans.
The monkey God Hanuman went to Lanka to find Sita.
Q. 40
What did Ram do to get back Sita from Ravan.
Ans.
Ram attacked Lanka, killed Ravan and got back sita.
