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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 152 · 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.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  3. 3.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  9. 9.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  10. 10.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.True or false: Valmiki wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  14. 14.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  15. 15.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  16. 16.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  20. 20.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  21. 21.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  22. 22.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  25. 25.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. 38.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  40. 40.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. the Mahabharata
  3. Wings of Fire
  4. Bengali
  5. Hindi
  6. Sanskrit
  7. Vishnu Sharma
  8. Kalidasa
  9. the Panchatantra
  10. Godan
  11. False
  12. Valmiki
  13. Kalidasa
  14. 18
  15. 18
  16. False
  17. False
  18. False
  19. animal stories
  20. Idgah
  21. 5
  22. False
  23. True
  24. Ved Vyasa
  25. Krishna
  26. English
  27. the Ramayana
  28. Premchand
  29. True
  30. False
  31. False
  32. Gitanjali
  33. True
  34. Sanskrit
  35. False
  36. False
  37. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. The Jungle Book
  39. Tamil
  40. False

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