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Elective English–I

Notes and artistic inspiration, not only to the people of India but also to
the people all over the world. It has helped to mould the Hindu
characters and has inspired millions of people with the deepest of
love and devotion.
Champa flowers : Plumeria

Fakir : A person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals
and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
In 1913, Tagore became the first non-Westerner to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.
This brought him to the fore in Western intellectual and cultural circles for several years
although much of the interest that grew up around him was based more on Europe’s
love for the exoticism of the east than on the facts of what the man actually wrote and
thought. By the mid 1930s he had fallen out of favour in the courts and salons of the west
and since his death in 1941, he has become all but unknown in Europe and North America.

Self Assessment

Choose the correct option:
1. Rabindranath Tagore was born in the year
(a) 1861 (b) 1911
(c) 1921

2. Rabindranath Tagore wrote
(a) poems and plays (b) novels and short stories
(c) all of these
3. Rabindranath Tagore was the __________ Indian to win the Nobel Prize
(a) first (b) second
(c) third

4. The name of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel-Prize winning book is
(a) The Untouchable (b) Gitanjali
(c) The Discovery of India
5. Which year did Tagore win the Nobel Prize?

(a) 1913 (b) 1923
(c) 1933
6. Which of the following poems has been composed by Tagore and is familiar to every
Indian?
(a) Vande Mataram (b) Jana Gana Mana
(c) Saare Jahan Se Acchha

Answers: Self Assessment

1. (a) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (b)

5. (a) 6. (b)

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