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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Cows of the Rig Veda : Chapter 1, Indra's Cows.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is "Destruction" in the "Burial Hymn"?
(a) The male personification of evil.
(b) Karma.
(c) The female personification of disorder.
(d) Indra's sister.

2. What does the name Vena mean?
(a) Longing.
(b) Thirst.
(c) Elder.
(d) Light.

3. Who are the 'ancient ones' in "The Boy and the Chariot"?
(a) The boy's parents.
(b) The sages.
(c) The jury of heaven.
(d) Dead ancestors of the realm of Yama.

4. Cows appear in the metaphors involving Soma as _____ or water.
(a) Blood.
(b) Whey.
(c) Milk.
(d) Clouds.

5. The three vats in "Parjanya, the Cow" are clouds full of rain or vessels full of _____.
(a) Sunlight.
(b) Milk.
(c) Sap.
(d) Soma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal joins the horse in sacrifice?

2. How many of the horse's thirty-six ribs are distributed to the universe in ritual sacrifice?

3. What is the sky divided into in "A Spell to Turn Back the Departing Spirit"?

4. Which word in the Rig Veda means 'to sprinkle'?

5. in "The Deeds of the Asvins", Pedu is the character who was given a white horse that killed _____.

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