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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the sacrificial drink pressed from a plant?
2. At the end of "The Birth of Agni", what does Agni turn into?
3. What word is often identified with the soul?
4. In "We Have Drunk the Soma", Dawn harnesses _____ to her chariot to bring treasure to the singer of the hymn.
5. How many wheels does the chariot have in "The Boy and the Chariot"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Aditi and the Birth of the Gods", what does the author think is meant by the poet's seeing the birth of the gods?
2. In the hymn "The Child of the Waters", what do the three women give to the deity, and why?
3. In "The Creation of the Sacrifice", what is the significance of weaving?
4. What does the hymn, "The Sacrificial Priests", liken the work of the priests to? How?
5. What is the significance of the membrane in "The Gods Coax Agni Out of the Waters"?
6. What is the distinction between food that is for the gods and food that is for the dead fathers?
7. Who are the Asuras in the beginning of the Vedas, as opposed to their role toward the end?
8. How are Agni and Soma linked?
9. What is the meaning of the horse carrying the body in "Requiem for a Horse"?
10. Who eats from the tree of knowledge in "The Riddle of the Sacrifice", and what does this mean?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who are the Asvins? Who bore them, and out of what part of her body? What are their deeds?
Essay Topic 2
Explain the meaning of "Hiranyagarbha". What are the different meanings of the separate parts of the word? What is the symbolism contained in the word?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Indra's greatest heroic deed in slaying the dragon Vrtra. Why did he slay Vrtra? What was the dragon doing that caused him to be the enemy of Indra? What does this symbolize?
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