Ramayana: Ram Navami Quiz For Students And Children – Everyone knows about Lord Rama and the epic Ramayana. We have read about these in books and seen on television. Below is the 10 question simple quiz to check your remembrance. It’s a simple quiz related to incidents and personalities involved in the life of Lord Rama.
Ramayana: Ram Navami Quiz For Kids
Quiz: Ramayana
Each question is followed by some possible answers. Select the one that you think is the correct answer.
- Question 1 of 10
1.
She, Ravana’s sister lived in the forests of panchavati, wanted to marry Sri Ram
Correct!
Wrong! Correct answer is Surpanakha. Surpanakha is a pivotal character in Valmiki’s epic, the Ramayana, and is the sister of the main antagonist, Ravana, King of Lanka
- Question 2 of 10
2.
Sita’s father lived here, his capital city
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Wrong! Correct answer is Mithila. Lord Rama’s wife Sita is said to have been the princess of the land, born to King Janaka, who ruled Mithila
- Question 3 of 10
3.
This sage was the chief sage (advisor) to king Dasharatha
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Wrong! Correct answer is Vashishta
- Question 4 of 10
4.
This rakshasa lures Rama away from the ashrama by becoming the magical golden deer
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Wrong! Correct answer is Maricha. Maricha – a rakshasa (demon), who is killed by Rama, the hero of the epic and an avatar of the god Vishnu. He is mentioned as an uncle of Ravana, the antagonist of the epic. His most notable exploit is his role in the kidnapping of Sita, Rama’s wife.
- Question 5 of 10
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This bird fights with Ravana and gets killed by him when Ravana was taking Sita to Lanka
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Wrong! Correct answer is Jatayu. In the Indian epic Ramayana, Jatayu is the youngest son of Aruna and also have a brother called Sampaati. A demi-god who has the form of a Vulture, he was an old friend of Dasharatha (Rama’s father). He tries to rescue Sita from Ravana when Ravana is on his way to Lanka after kidnapping Sita.
- Question 6 of 10
6.
This rakshasa (he has no head or legs but only two arms) gets released by the curse when Ram kills him in the forests
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Wrong! Correct answer is Kabandha. Kabandha is a Rakshasa (demon) who is killed and freed from a curse by the god Rama and his brother Lakshmana. Kabandha’s legend appears in the Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata.
- Question 7 of 10
7.
Rama belongs to this race or dynasty
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Wrong! Correct answer is Ikshvaku. Ikshvaku was the first king of the Ikshvaku dynasty and founder of the Ikshvaku-Vansh, or Suryavansh Dynasty of Kshatriyas in Vedic civilization in ancient India.
- Question 8 of 10
8.
Dasharatha does this yagna to pray to the gods and gets four sons
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Wrong! Correct answer is Putrakameshti. Putrakameshti is a special Yajna performed in Hinduism for the sake of having a child. It is a kaamya-karma. In the Ramayana, upon the recommendation of Sage Vashishta, King Dasharatha of Ayodhya performed the Putrakameshti Yajna under the supervision of Rishishringa Muni, who was an expert in Yajurveda, which has the guidelines for this prayer. After its successful completion, the Lord of Fire, Agnidev appeared and gave a bowl of sweet to the King of Ayodhya, which was provided to his three queens in order to promulgate his sons Sri Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna.
- Question 9 of 10
9.
Dasharatha was the king of this kingdom
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Wrong! Correct answer Koshala.
- Question 10 of 10
10.
Ayodhya is on the banks of this river
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Wrong! Correct answer is Sarayu. The Sarayu is also the river upon whose banks King Rama was born. According to a sub-story within the Ramayana, the banks of the River Sarayu is also the place where King Dashratha accidentally killed Shravan Kumar. It is also called the only river flowing beneath the earth.
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The Ramayana is an ancient Indian epic, composed some time in the 5th century BCE, about the exile and then return of Lord Rama, prince of Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh, India). It was composed in Sanskrit by the sage Valmiki, who taught it to Rama’s sons, the twins Lava and Kush. At about 24000 verses, it is a rather long poem and, by tradition, is known as the Adi Kavya (adi = original, first; kavya = poem). While the basic story is about palace politics and battles with demon tribes, the narrative is interspersed with philosophy, ethics, and notes on duty. While in that other Indian epic, the Mahabharata, the characters are presented with all their human follies and failings, the Ramayana leans more towards an ideal state of things: Rama is the ideal son and king, Sita the ideal wife, Hanuman the ideal devotee, Lakshman and Bharat the ideal brothers, and even Ravana, the demon villain, is not entirely despicable.
Regional variations: Ramayana Quiz
The Ramayana was composed in Sanskrit. Over the years of retellings, several vernacular versions emerged that embellished the story, added regional touches, and inserted explanations and justifications for those bits that showed the hero, Rama, in a not-too-heroic light. The Ramavataram, composed by the Tamil poet Kamban in the 12th century CE, is popular in the southern parts of India. In the north, the Ramcharitmanas, composed by the Awadhi poet Tulsidas, is extremely popular. Other variations exist in Bengali, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, and other Indian languages.