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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Women & Magic : Chapter 1, Women.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Maruts are _____ portrayed always as a group.
(a) Fertility gods.
(b) Water-gods.
(c) Wind-gods.
(d) Sun worshipers.

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

3. Who called "Indra and the Monkey' the strangest hymn in the Rig Veda?
(a) Muller.
(b) Stackhouse.
(c) Doniger.
(d) Renou.

4. What is the symbol of an unfaithful woman in "Pururavas and Urvasi"?
(a) The jackal.
(b) The broken chalice.
(c) The eagle.
(d) The broken twig.

5. Who is the mother of the sun?
(a) Fire.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nirrti called in the texts of the Rig Veda?

2. The red streaks in "The Gale Wind" may be the redness in the sky during rain, or the _____ of the wind.

3. In "Parjanya, the Bull", what is Parjanyas' enormous deadly weapon?

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

5. Svarbhanu is the demon of _____ in "Atri and the Lost Sun".

(see the answer key)

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