1. Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize .It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Its central theme is devotion, and its motto is 'I am here to sing thee songs 'from a verse no of________?
A:) XV
B:) XXX
C:) XI
D:) III
springline- Correct option: A:) XV
2. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings/Singing Angel is a collection of 103 English prose poems, which are Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems, and was first published in November 1912 by the India Society in London. How many poems of translation it contained?
A:) 52
B:) 53
C:) 54
D:) 55
springline- Correct option: B:) 53
3. Gitanjali ; It contained translations of 53 poems from the original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as 50 other poems from his other works. The translations were often radical, leaving out or altering large chunks of the poem and in one instance fusing two separate poems (song 95, which unifies songs 89,90 of NaivedyA:) . The English Gitanjali became popular in _____?
A:) the West
B:) the east
C:) south
D:) european countries
springline- Correct option: A:) the West
4. Gītāñjali, a collection of poetry, the most famous work by Rabindranath Tagore, published in India in 1910. Tagore then translated it into prose poems in English, as Gitanjali: Song Offerings, and it was published in 1912 with an introduction by _____?
A:) T.S. Eliot
B:) William Butler Yeats
C:) Whitman
D:) Robert Frost
springline- Correct option: B:) William Butler Yeats
5. Medieval Indian lyrics of devotion provided Tagore’s model for the poems of Gītāñjali. He also composed music for these lyrics. Which is the principal subject, although some poems detail the internal conflict between spiritual longings and earthly desires ?
A:) Divine
B:) Love
C:) Poet
D:) Devotion
springline- Correct option: B:) Love
6. Who was celebrated for his translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali into Telugu, and he also translated Tagore’s play Sacrifice into that language and In 1992 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, one of the Indian government’s highest civilian awards, for his contributions to the arts?
A:) R.K. Narayan
B:) Jaggayya
C:) Sanjib Chattopadhyay
D:) Sukumar Ray
springline- Correct option: B:) Jaggayya
7. Rabindranath Tagore born Rabindranath Thakur, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941; sobriquet Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi) was a Indian polymath – poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He was a fellow of the _______ ?
A:) Royal Asiatic Society
B:) Royal Asiatic Poetry
C:) Royal Political association
D:) Religious Asiatic Society
springline- Correct option: A:) Royal Asiatic Society
8. Tagore reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the ‘profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse’ of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in _______ ?
A:) Poetry
B:) Peace
C:) Literature
D:) Novel
springline- Correct option: C:) Literature
9. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his ‘elegant prose and magical poetry’ remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as _________?
A:) Wordsworth of Bengal
B:) the Bard of Bengal
C:) Shakespeare of Poetry
D:) Lord of Indian Poetry
springline- Correct option: B:) the Bard of Bengal
10. Gitanjali: The First stanza starts mentioning the grace of God to a human being. Tagore considers the human body as a frail vessel, God intermittently repairs it's damaged and fills up it with fresh life. God is all master of Human being, he takes care of his subjects and solves all of their problems. In that way, man is made endless with ________?
A:) love
B:) divinity
C:) death
D:) pleasure
springline- Correct option: D:) pleasure
11. Tagore might have considered the poet as a flute and the poem comes out of his mouth as an eternal melody which is new forever. Poet reaches in unspeakable about the characteristic of God. Every touch from God touches a poet‘s heart, this fills his heart with overjoy and makes him in a state of pleasure extreme to be expressed, which stanza declare this notion?
A:) verse no 1
B:) verse no 2
C:) verse no 3
D:) verse no 4
springline- Correct option: B:) verse no 2
12. Gitanjali: In the second stanza, Tagore how deep-rooted the relationship of God with the poorest people. When the poet tries to bow down before God, his obeisance cannot reach down to the depth where God‘s feet rest among the lost people. That much deeper is God‘s touch on the__________?
A:) poor people
B:) common people
C:) children
D:) poets
springline- Correct option: B:) common people
13. Gitanjali: People with ego can never reach God. The God has worn the cloths of humbleness, and he walks among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost. Poets service is to offer his life to God, the poet is not ready to suffer as all the poets with a_______?
A:) divine life
B:) pleasure
C:) saint life
D:) peaceful life
springline- Correct option: D:) peaceful life
14. Gitanjali: Poet is on search, he can‘t take rest in his life. He wants God always with him otherwise his life will become meaningless. In this last stanza, the poet feels so confused. The major theme in Gitanjali is devotion to God. This work focuses on the Indian ______?
A:) religious aspect
B:) spiritualism
C:) philosophical aspects
D:) poetical aspect to god
springline- Correct option: C:) philosophical aspects
15. Gitanjali: In this poem, Tagore claims that God is the inspiration behind his songs. He is a poet only because of divine command. It is as though God has chosen him and this fills his heart with such pride that it seems it would break. Tagore experiences a mystic joy in this revelation and his life becomes one of ________?
A:) divinity
B:) majestic
C:) purifying
D:) harmony
springline- Correct option: D:) harmony
16. Gitanjali: The poet knows and understands that God is pleased by his songs and only as a singer can he come into God's presence. His song reaches far and wide but he himself could never reach God, he can only hope to touch God's feet by the edge of his far reaching song. The joy of singing fills the poet with the ecstasy that makes him drunk and forget himself and forgetting that he is a mere servant begins to call God his master, his _____?
A:) friend
B:) guide
C:) mentor
D:) guru
springline- Correct option: A:) friend
17. Gitanjali: Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's ‘Jana Gana Mana‘ and Bangladesh's ‘Amar Shonar Bangla‘. Which country national anthem was inspired by his work?
A:) Bhutan
B:) Nepal
C:) Sri Lanka
D:) Maldives
springline- Correct option: C:) Sri Lanka
18. Gitanjali: Between 1878 and 1932, Tagore set foot in more than thirty countries on five continents. When he took a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they gained attention from missionary and Gandhi protégé Charles F. Andrews, Irish poet William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore, and others?
A:) 1911
B:) 1912
C:) 1913
D:) 1914
springline- Correct option: B:) 1912
19. Tagore's poetic style, which proceeds from a lineage established by 15th- and 16th-century Vaishnava poets, ranges from classical formalism to the comic, visionary, and ecstatic. He was influenced by the atavistic mysticism of Vyasa and other rishi-authors of the Upanishads, the Bhakti-Sufi mystic Kabir, and ________?
A:) Ramprasad Sen
B:) Sir Aurobindo
C:) Vyasa
D:) Osho
springline- Correct option: A:) Ramprasad Sen
20. Tagore was a prolific composer with around 2,230 songs to his credit. His songs are known as rabindrasangit (‘Tagore Song’), which merges fluidly into his literature, most of which—poems or parts of novels, stories, or plays alike—were lyricised. Influenced by the thumri style of_______ ?
A:) Ghazal
B:) Lullaby
C:) Hindustani music
D:) Carnatic Music
springline- Correct option: C:) Hindustani music
21. Gitanjali: Death is not the end or cessation of life; it is the renewal of life. In Gitanjali-74 life is spoken of as the pitcher, which is filled again and through and Death. There is a constant rhythm of birth-death-re-birth, and Death is only a phase of this rhythm. Death is the servant of the _____?
A:) Divine
B:) God
C:) Desires
D:) Karma
springline- Correct option: A:) Divine
22. Gitanjali: 'I AM only waiting for love to give myself up at last into his hands. That is why it is so late and why I have been guilty of such omissions. They come with their laws and their codes to bind me fast’ this verse taken from the verse number of______?
A:) XXX
B:) XV
C:) XVII
D:) XIV
springline- Correct option: C:) XVII
23. Gitanjali:‘I CAME out alone on my way to my tryst. But who is this that follows me in the silent dark ? I move aside to avoid his presence but I escape him not. He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger; he adds his loud voice to every world that I utter. From which verse lines contain this lines?
A:) XVI
B:) XII
C:) VIII
D:) XXX
springline- Correct option: D:) XXX
24. Gitanjali: A man's ego is an obstacle in the way of his spiritual quest. It must be given up before spiritual salvation can be possible. According to What the root cause of everything that binds man is ego and it is this which gives one the feeling of he and him?
A:) Vedanta
B:) Idealism
C:) Bhagavad Gita
D:) Religious guru
springline- Correct option: A:) Vedanta
25. Gitanjali:'PRISONER, tell me, who was it that bound you?'It was my master,' said the prisoner. 'I thought I could outdo everybody in the world in wealth and power, and I amassed in my own treasure-house the money due to my king; This verse taken from the verse no of_____?
A:) XXX
B:) XXXIV
C:) XIV
D:) XVI
springline- Correct option: B:) XXXIV
26. Gitanjali: The lyric is a beautiful allegory in which the poet conveys the truth as to how slowly worldly and sensuous desires overwhelm the human soul and turn it away from God. They are like dishonest intruders who first enter the house meekly saying that they want only a little corner for rest during ______?
A:) the night
B:) the life
C:) the death
D:) the mid morning
springline- Correct option: A:) the night
27. Gitanjali: The rain, the light, the breeze are all the different messengers of the divine lover coming to the poet with His greetings. The poet waits and watches at his doorsteps, for the divine may come to him suddenly and unexpectedly at any moment. The poet waits for that happy moment, and sings and similes with joy as the air is filled with perfume foreshadowing the approach of the ________?
A:) god
B:) divine lover
C:) egoless man
D:) poet
springline- Correct option: B:) divine lover
28. Gitanjali: Death for him is merely a transformation or the only gateway to the eternal. The soul comes to the world from the Eternal and assumes a particular form; after death it still lives on in the Eternal and may assume some different form. This was also the faith of _____?
A:) Homer
B:) Horace
C:) Bhudhar
D:) Plato
springline- Correct option: D:) Plato
29. Gitanjali: Tagore wrote poetry or poetic drama. Imagination gave him eyes, ears, wings, and a thrilling and melodious voice and poems and plays flowed with a rapidity that was amazing. Tagore mysticism is seen in his firm faith in the principle of unity, rhythm and ____?
A:) harmony
B:) thought
C:) love
D:) divine
springline- Correct option: A:) harmony
30. Gitanjali:‘The current coin of India's devotional poetry is melted and minted anew by Rabindranath, but the pure gold shines as brightly as ever, even though the inscription on the coin is in English. Gitanjali is full of such poetry’. Whose notion is this?
A:) R.S. Iyenger
B:) R.S. Iyenger
C:) Sir Aurobindo
D:) Paul Verghese
springline- Correct option: A:) R.S. Iyenger