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Jataka Quiz 2

Instructions: Answer the multiple choice questions, guessing if necessary; then click on the "Process Questions" button at the end of the quiz to see your score in the adjacent message box. The program will not reveal which questions you got wrong, only how many points you have. Go back and change your answers until you get them all right. (The message box will rejoice at that point and the page will change color to show it is tickled pink.)

Points to note: (1) Questions with only one possible answer are one point each. (2) Questions with one or more possible answers (represented by check boxes) give a point for each correct answer, but also subtract a point for each wrong answer! (3) The program will not attempt to score your efforts at all if you have not tried at least half of the questions. (4) This quiz is for your own use only. No record of your progress is kept or reported to anyone.


1. When ordinary people, enraged at Prince Vessantara’s handling of the elephant matter, demanded that the prince be sent in to religious exile on Mount Vankagiri, Vessantara headed into the wilderness
in a royal chariot 
alone 
with his wife, leaving their children in the care of his mother, the queen 
in the company of a band of Brahmins 
taking no possessions with him 
No Answer
2. Jujaka was a Brahmin from Varnasi (= Benares) whose house burned down because of his evil deeds, so he headed to Mount Vankagiri because
he had relatives there 
he believed a cave in the mountain was filled with gold 
he was filled with shame at having committed deeds so evil as to make his house burn down 
a couple there owed him money 
he had heard that Prince Vessantara was there and was foolish enough to be easily cheated 
No Answer
3. In the story Jujaka acquired a beautiful wife, but she found him very demanding, so she
returned to her parents 
decided to poison his dinner 
filled his mouth with honey cakes so he could say only sweet things 
filled his mouth with honey cakes so that he couldn’t talk 
asked for him to fetch her two children to be servants 
No Answer
4. When Jujaka appeared at Prince Vessantara’s compound to ask for help, Prince Vessantara’s wife Maddi
had gone into the forest to look for food 
drove him off with a great stick 
invited him to stay for a meal and then marveled at how much he ate 
asked the children to sing for him 
told him that beautiful wives were more demanding than ugly ones and advised that he find an ugly wife and send away his beautiful one 
No Answer
5. The god Sakka intervened in Prince Vessantara’s life in religious exile, first disguising himself and then returning to his own divine form. He disguised himself as
a tortoise 
the Prince’s wife Maddi 
an ugly Brahmin demanding the Prince’s wife as a gift 
a magical tree with leaves of gold, which the Prince’s wife Maddi wanted to harvest 
a dung heap 
a very fat pig 
No Answer
6. The evil Brahmin Jujaka died before the story ended because
upon acquiring great wealth, he ate until his stomach exploded 
the god Sakka struck him with a hideously deforming disease and he frightened himself to death when he looked in a mirror 
the white elephant Peccaya trampled him 
he was so moved by Prince Vessantara’s great virtue, that he was converted to Buddhism and died so that he could be reincarnated as a beggar to atone for his sins 
he missed a multiple-choice question about a text he had just read 
No Answer
7. At his death, Vessantara
was buried in a magnificent stupa 
was instantly reborn as a buddha 
turned into a tower of smoke and then vanished 
ascended to the special heaven where bodhisattvas and buddhas wait between incarnations 
and the elephant Peccaya died on the same day, just as they had been born on the same day 
was succeeded by the virtuous son of the evil (but now dead) Brahmin Jujaka 
No Answer

      Points out of 7:


Knowledge Score: The following knowledge score is a measure of how much guessing you did to get all items right. It is 100 if you got all questions right when you clicked the process button for the first time. It gets proportionately lower if it took more clicks, until it hits 0 if your clicks exceeded the number of questions.



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This consummately cool, pedagogically compelling, self-correcting,
multiple-choice quiz was produced automatically from
a simple text file of questions using D.K. Jordan's
dubiously original, but publicly accessible
Think Again Quiz Maker
of July 28, 2014.