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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Women & Magic : Chapter 2, Magic.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Indra's wife?
(a) Indora.
(b) Yamani.
(c) Yamora.
(d) Indrani.

2. What was used to protect female mourners instead of mascara or eye-shadow, as stated in the "Burial Hymn"?
(a) Blessed berry juice.
(b) Ritually purified butter.
(c) Ash mixed with olive oil.
(d) Clay from sacred ground.

3. The horses of Indra in "The Sacrifice of the Horse" are _____.
(a) Two bay stallions.
(b) Two roan mares.
(c) Two dapple grays.
(d) Two grey donkeys.

4. What are the human and demonic enemies of the invading Indo-Aryans?
(a) Atmans.
(b) Agnus.
(c) Saramas.
(d) Panis.

5. In "Varuna Provoked to Anger", even _____ does not avert evil in the poet's estimation.
(a) Sacrifice.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Awareness.
(d) Sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. All fires die out when Siva is wrongly accused in "The Birth of Agni" and he departs from the _____.

2. In "Vena", Soma is the _____ who roars as he mingles with the waters.

3. Which gods are invoked as a pair in "The Demons in Hell"?

4. In later Sanskrit, a wish is a chariot made of _____.

5. Pusan presides over _____.

(see the answer key)

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