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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 1 · 40 questions
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Remember (Book and writer): Ramayana – Valmiki, Mahabharata – Ved Vyasa, Panchatantra – Vishnu Sharma, Ramcharitmanas – Tulsidas, Meghaduta – Kalidasa, Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore, Tirukkural – Thiruvalluvar. Godan and Idgah – Premchand, The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling, Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll, Wings of Fire – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. The Bhagavad Gita is part of the Mahabharata and has 18 chapters; there were 5 Pandava brothers.

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  1. 1.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  5. 5.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  7. 7.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  11. 11.True or false: Valmiki wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  15. 15.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  18. 18.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  20. 20.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  23. 23.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  24. 24.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  27. 27.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  28. 28.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  30. 30.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  34. 34.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  40. 40.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. 18
  3. False
  4. Premchand
  5. True
  6. Vishnu Sharma
  7. Rama
  8. Premchand
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. Sanskrit
  11. False
  12. Ramcharitmanas
  13. False
  14. Alice in Wonderland
  15. False
  16. Valmiki
  17. Meghaduta
  18. False
  19. Kalidasa
  20. False
  21. False
  22. English
  23. Gitanjali
  24. False
  25. True
  26. 5
  27. animal stories
  28. False
  29. English
  30. the Panchatantra
  31. True
  32. False
  33. the Mahabharata
  34. False
  35. False
  36. False
  37. The Jungle Book
  38. Sanskrit
  39. Awadhi
  40. False

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