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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Indra, Agni & Soma : Chapter 1, First Gods & the Mysterious Soma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the hymn "Yama and the Fathers", who is being told to go away from the burning-ground where they live?
(a) Mud daubers.
(b) Cold-blooded snakes.
(c) Flesh-eating ghouls.
(d) Ants.

2. What is the name of the sacrificial drink pressed from a plant?
(a) Buttermilk.
(b) Karma.
(c) Broth.
(d) Soma.

3. In later Sanskrit, a wish is a chariot made of _____.
(a) Flax.
(b) Thought.
(c) Hemp.
(d) Sorrow.

4. What does the word 'tapas' mean?
(a) Death.
(b) Longing.
(c) Cold.
(d) Heat.

5. Max Muller dubs the unknown god _____.
(a) Deus Ex Machina.
(b) Ixus Dominus.
(c) Deus Ignotus.
(d) Brahma.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many wheels does the chariot have in "The Boy and the Chariot"?

2. What are the instruments for ritual sometimes called?

3. Who repairs the errors committed in the course of the horse sacrifice?

4. What is the inner membrane of the embryo called?

5. What is symbolic of primeval chaotic matter, the seed of the creator, and the sacrificial oblation?

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