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How Much Do You Know About Mahabharata?

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the 2 major Sanskrit Epics in Ancient India?

a)

Mahabharata and Ramayana

b)

Ramayana and Vedas

c)

Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads

d)

None of these

2.

Which is longer? Ramayana or Mahabharata?

a)

Ramayana

b)

Mahabharata

3.

How many sections are in the Mahabharata?

a)

21

b)

100

c)

18

d)

10

4.

What are these sections called?

a)

Chapters

b)

Sections

c)

Episodes

d)

Parvas

5.

Who is the author?

a)

Krishna

b)

Sage Vyasa

c)

Draupadi

d)

Sage Drona

6.

Who asked Vyasa to write the story and why?

a)

Brahma because Sage Vyasa saw the entire story and knew the characters personally

b)

Ganesha because he wanted to hear a story from him

c)

Krishna because he wanted people to remember the story for centuries

d)

No one asked him to write it, he wrote it because he was bored

7.

Who did Vyasa ask to help write the book? Why?

a)

Krishna because he was a part of the story too

b)

Brahma since he asked him first

c)

Ganesha because he knew he could not write such a long, complex story by himself

d)

Shiva because he had the best handwriting

8.

What was Ganesha's condition to write?

a)

That he will only write with his tusk

b)

He will get ladoos as a reward

c)

He will get to take a break every 100 words

d)

That Vyasa could not take a break or stop talking

9.

What was Vyasa's counter condition?

a)

He is allowed to take a nap

b)

Ganesha has to write it down with no hands

c)

Ganesha can only write down something once he's understood the meaning of it

d)

He had no counter condition