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12 questions
  1. "The Pilgrim of the Night" was written by —
    1. Rabindranath Tagore
    2. Sri Aurobindo
    3. Toru Dutt
    4. Sarojini Naidu
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    Answer: (B) Sri Aurobindo

    It is a sonnet by Sri Aurobindo.

  2. In the poem, the "Night" chiefly symbolises —
    1. the end of life
    2. ignorance and unredeemed matter
    3. peaceful sleep
    4. the beauty of the stars
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    Answer: (B) ignorance and unredeemed matter

    Night stands for ignorance, suffering and the unconscious — everything not yet transformed.

  3. The direction of the pilgrim’s journey is —
    1. upward, away from the world
    2. downward, into the darkness
    3. eastward, towards the dawn
    4. in a circle
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    Answer: (B) downward, into the darkness

    Sri Aurobindo reverses the usual mystical movement — the pilgrim descends.

  4. What does the pilgrim carry with him into the darkness?
    1. A lamp
    2. Light within himself
    3. A sacred book
    4. A companion
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    Answer: (B) Light within himself

    He brings the light inside him; he does not go searching for it.

  5. Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem is —
    1. The Life Divine
    2. Savitri
    3. Gitanjali
    4. The Golden Threshold
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    Answer: (B) Savitri

    Savitri runs to about 24,000 lines — the longest poem in English.

  6. Sri Aurobindo settled in which city in 1910?
    1. Calcutta
    2. Baroda
    3. Pondicherry
    4. Madras
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    Answer: (C) Pondicherry

    He withdrew to Pondicherry and spent forty years there.

  7. The form of "The Pilgrim of the Night" is a —
    1. ballad
    2. sonnet
    3. ode
    4. dramatic monologue
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    Answer: (B) sonnet

    It is a sonnet — fourteen lines of iambic pentameter.

  8. Sri Aurobindo called his highest poetry —
    1. confessional poetry
    2. overhead or mantric poetry
    3. metaphysical poetry
    4. imagist poetry
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    Answer: (B) overhead or mantric poetry

    Verse coming from planes above the ordinary mind, working like a mantra.

  9. The central paradox of the poem is that the pilgrim —
    1. seeks light but finds darkness
    2. enters darkness in order to bring light
    3. travels without moving
    4. sleeps in order to wake
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    Answer: (B) enters darkness in order to bring light

    The descent is the means by which the darkness is to be redeemed.

  10. Integral Yoga teaches that the divine should be —
    1. escaped to, above the world
    2. brought down into ordinary life and matter
    3. found only after death
    4. worshipped in temples alone
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    Answer: (B) brought down into ordinary life and matter

    Transformation of life, not escape from it, is Sri Aurobindo’s central teaching.

  11. The meeting place with the Night is fixed at —
    1. a temple
    2. the abyss
    3. a mountain top
    4. the seashore
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    Answer: (B) the abyss

    He will descend all the way to the abyss — nothing shallower will do.

  12. What makes this poem unusual among religious poems?
    1. It has no rhyme
    2. It moves downward into darkness rather than upward to light
    3. It is written in prose
    4. It denies the existence of God
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    Answer: (B) It moves downward into darkness rather than upward to light

    Almost all mystical poetry rises; this one deliberately descends.

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