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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 157 · 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.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  5. 5.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  8. 8.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  16. 16.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  17. 17.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  19. 19.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  25. 25.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  30. 30.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  33. 33.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  37. 37.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  39. 39.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

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

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