Grade 10 Unit 16 Reading Test

Select the correct option according to your reading text of the Jitiya festival.

• Jitiya festival is celebrated in the Terai region of Nepal

• Jitiya is celebrated in the Hilly region of Nepal.

• Jitiya festival is celebrated in the Mithilanchal with Tharu communities.

JItiya is especially celebrated by ........................

• Married women

• Married Tharu women

• Both husband & wife of a Tharu family

Jitiya festival is celebrated for .....days

• Three days

• two days

• five days

Before taking a bath, they put khari (oil-seed-cake), special soil, on a leaf of sponge gourd and worship Jimutavahana and .....................

• let it flow on the river

• start worshipping

• make an image of Jimutavahana

. The married women of Tharu take brata (fast).......................... children, husband, and family.

• for the good fortune of their

• for the prosperity of their personal life

• for well being of their brothers.

The fasting day Astami is called ..................

• Jitiya

• Upas

• Parwan

The second day of Jitiya festival is called ......................

• Parwan

• Upas

• darkatony

The third day of Jitiya is called .....................

• Parwan

• Jitiya

• ongthan or datkhat

what is called their song which they sing on the fasting day?

• ongthan

• datkhat

• darkatoni

Masabashi is ............................................................

• a princess

• the unmarried princess

• the unmarried princess & the mother of Jmitavahana