Kaikeyi presses King Dasaratha in the Ramayana: "Now forth to Daṇḍak's forest drive / Thy Ráma for nine years and five... Without a rival let my boy / The empire of the land enjoy." Which conflict type is this?

Bharata speaks of his mother in the Ramayana: "Duty alone with binding chains / The vengeance due to crime restrains, / Or on the sinner I should lift / My hand in retribution swift." Which conflict type is this?

Blocked by the sea in the Ramayana, Rama vows: "This day... the host shall pass / Triumphant to the southern shore, / Or Ocean's self shall be no more," then sends flaming arrows into the water. Which conflict type is this?

After the war in the Ramayana, Rama sends Sita away: "How should my home receive again / A mistress soiled with deathless stain? / How should I brook the foul disgrace, / Scorned by my friends and all my race?" Which conflict drives him?

Held in Ravana's grove in the Ramayana, Sita answers him: "Beseems thee not, O King, to woo / A matron, to her husband true... Turn, Rávaṇ, turn thee from thy sin; / Seek virtue's paths and walk therein." Which conflict type is this?

In the Ramayana, when Rama accepts exile, "Lakshmaṇ bent his drooping head. / In turns by grief and pride impelled, / A middle course of thought he held." Which conflict type do these lines show?

Told he must give up the throne in the Ramayana, Rama replies: "I would not in this world remain / A grovelling thrall to paltry gain, / But duty's path would fain pursue, / True as the saints themselves are true." Which conflict type is this?

Warning Sita in the Ramayana, Rama describes the forest: "There mighty monsters fearless play... 'Tis hard to ford each treacherous flood, / So thick with crocodiles and mud, / Where the wild elephants repose." Which conflict does he warn of?

In the Ramayana, Bharata cries aloud in the crowd, "Before each lord and minister": "No lust have I for kingly sway... I knew of Ráma's exile naught." Which conflict does his public speech answer?

Bharata begs Rama to be crowned in the Ramayana. Rama answers: "The moon his beauty may forgo, / The cold forsake the Hills of Snow, / And Ocean o'er his banks may sweep, / But I my father's word will keep." What does this reveal?

Refusing to stay behind in the Ramayana, Sita says: "My lord, the mother, sire, and son / Receive their lots by merit won... The wife alone, whate'er await, / Must share on earth her husband's fate." What belief moves her?

In the Ramayana, Kaikeyi first tells her servant that Rama is "Dear as the darling son I bore," and that "Bharat will share the empire still." She later demands Rama's exile. What does the change reveal?

In the Ramayana, Dasaratha swears by Rama to grant Kaikeyi's wish before she has named it: "Speak, and thy bidding shall be done." What does this detail reveal about the king?

In the Ramayana, Hanuman first hands Sita "this precious ring, / Sure token from thy lord the king: / The golden ring he wont to wear: / See, Ráma's name engraven there." Why does he show it before speaking further?

In the Ramayana, Bharata sets Rama's sandals on the royal seat, wears a hermit's dress and matted hair, and governs from Nandigrama outside the city. What do these actions show about him?

In the Ramayana, Rama shoots arrows into the sea, and Lakshmana "stayed / His arm" with these words: "Brother, reflect: the wise control / The rising passions of the soul." What dramatic role does Lakshmana play here?

In the Ramayana, Hanuman crosses the sea alone, finds Sita in the grove, gives her Rama's ring, carries back a gem from her hair, and reports where she is held. What dramatic role does he fill?

In the Ramayana, Vibhishana urges his brother Ravana to give Sita back, is spurned "like a base-born slave," and then leaves his wife and children to fly to Rama. What dramatic role does he fill?

In the Ramayana, Manthara hears of Rama's coming consecration, hurries to the sleeping Kaikeyi, spurns the queen's gift, and argues until Kaikeyi claims her two boons. What dramatic role does Manthara fill?

In the Ramayana, Rama at first refuses to take Sita into exile and describes the dangers of the forest to her, and she goes with him only after pleading with him again and again.