TEST - 62

In Gitanjali, the lyric that begins “Leave this chanting and singing” redirects devotion to which sphere?

• forest rites
• man’s work
• cave-yoga
• vow of silence

In Gitanjali, the English collection privately printed in London first appeared under which society’s imprint with Yeats’s preface?

• PEN
• India Society
• Oxford Union
• Nataraja Sabha

In Gitanjali, “Where the mind is without fear” as placed in the English volume functions chiefly as a/an:

• ode
• prayer
• epistle
• satire

In Gitanjali, Tagore’s English book “Song Offerings” contains how many lyrics in its standard 1912 sequence?

• 75
• 103
• 120
• 157

In Gitanjali, the poet’s approach to the divine emphasizes:

• ritual exactness
• inner surrender
• metaphysical proofs
• social withdrawal

In Gitanjali, the “golden light” and “thee in the dust” imagery primarily fuses:

• mystic + pastoral
• bhakti + karma
• satire + elegy
• epic + mock-heroic

In Gitanjali, the “master of my life” is encountered not in temples but in:

• dusk hymns
• crowded markets
• sea-pilgrimages
• midnight vigils

In Gitanjali, the keynote of the English self-translations is best called:

• agnostic
• devotional humanism
• nihilist
• doctrinal orthodoxy

In Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S., the narrator’s Indian English marker appears in which usage?

• “myself I”
• “we was”
• “ain’t”
• “gonna”

In Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S., the uncertain recollection of the father’s posting (Bulsar/Surat) mainly creates:

• tragedy
• gentle parody
• epic dignity
• lyric lament