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What was Tagore's least favourite subject?
English
Hindi
Bengali
French
Tick all the correct statements:
Tagore wrote his first verse at the age of 8
Tagore had 15 siblings.
Tagore died on August 7, 1941.
Tagore started painting at the age of 60.
Tagore was called the _________ of Bengal.
Shantiniketan is a town in Kolkata.
True
False
Tagore's conversation with Einstein has been recorded as 'On the _________ of ___________'.
nature, reality
reality, nature
realism, nature
naturalism, realism
Tagore examined the classical poetry of ____________
Tagore went to London to study _________, but returned degree-less.
art
poetry
law
physics
Tagore conferred the title of ‘Mahatma’ on MK Gandhi.
True
False
Rabindranath Tagore was fondly called 'Gurudev'.
True
False
_______________ held in Jorasanko Thakur Bari is a cultural arts festival.
Aban Mela
Krishi Mela
Kathakali
Tick all the countries that chose Tagore's poems as their national anthem:
India
Kenya
Bangladesh
Saudi Arabia
Visva Bharati University (VBU) is a state-university.
True
False
Rabindra Bharati University is a central university.
True
False
Tagore repudiated his knighthood as a protest against __________
Kakori Train Robbery
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
World War I
Tagore wrote novels and short stories with powerful female characters.
True
False
The speaker in the poem 'The Last Bargain' is seeking power.
True
False
This last bargain turns out to be the best bargain, the one that frees the seeker from seeking satisfaction from earthly things.
True
False
The speaker did not accept the maid's offer because_______
she was fair.
he knew that emotions are not stable and that eventually, her smile would fade away.
she was arrogant.
The poet encounters a __________ at the end of the poem.
a child playing on the shore
a lady dancing on the road
a dog wagging his tail
a man eating his lunch
The poem 'The Last Bargain' is written in/as (tick all that applies)
free verse
elegy
a prose-poem
haiku
Three works of Tagore are :
Kabuliwala
The Blue Umbrella
Delhi is not far
The Postmaster
Gitanjali
The word 'aflower' means:
blooming with flowers
without flowers
a garland
a bouquet of flowers
The word 'dark' in the third stanza of the poem symbolizes:
black
darkness
hopelessness and despair
The word 'naught' means
naughty
everything
nothing
The second stanza of the poem talks about which part of the day?
Morning
Afternoon
Night
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