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

2. The author calls the unknown god the _____.
(a) Icarus of Antiquity.
(b) Silver Serpent.
(c) Golden Embryo.
(d) Sunray.

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

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

5. Who repairs the errors committed in the course of the horse sacrifice?
(a) Brahmins.
(b) Hotrs.
(c) Haruts.
(d) Yaskas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is a kavi?

2. The Invoker is what type of priest in "The Sacrifice of the Horse"?

3. _____ are seers as well as poets.

4. "The Origins of Sacred Speech" hymn speaks of the recreation of the origins of sacred speech through _____of the Vedic sacrifice.

5. What is the male element of the newborn sun or fire?

(see the answer key)

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