Rule on these claims about Gitanjali

Exercise and reference answers

Questions

1. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Tagore first wrote Gitanjali in Bengali and later put it into English.

2. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   The closing poems of Gitanjali treat death as a reunion with the divine.

3. Statement is true

   No

   Statement

   The speaker of Gitanjali places his own achievement above surrender.

4. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Light and music run through Gitanjali as figures for a divine presence.

5. Statement is true

   No

   Statement

   Gitanjali was written in English and only later carried into Bengali.

6. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Devotion in Gitanjali shows itself through service and acceptance.

Instructions

Tap true or false for each claim about Tagore's Gitanjali and how it reached the world.

Explanation