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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Creation & Death : Chapter 1, Introductions, Creation & Death..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Martanda's name originally mean in "Aditi and the Birth of the Gods"?
(a) Born of an egg.
(b) Keeper of the sun.
(c) Eye of the sky.
(d) Beholder.

2. Who is a kavi?
(a) A poet or a saint.
(b) A guardian or keeper.
(c) A snake handler.
(d) A sacrifical martyr.

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

4. What is thought of as a symbol of rain and fertility?
(a) The lioness.
(b) The female frog.
(c) The goose egg.
(d) The rain cloud.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the hymn "Yama and the Fathers", who is being told to go away from the burning-ground where they live?

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

4. What is the path of death referred to, as in "The Boy and the Chariot"?

5. Who are the ancient dark divinities?

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