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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 164 · 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.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  4. 4.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  7. 7.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. 10.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  11. 11.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  18. 18.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  24. 24.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  26. 26.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  27. 27.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  28. 28.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  33. 33.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  34. 34.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. False
  3. Idgah
  4. False
  5. Kalidasa
  6. Tulsidas
  7. True
  8. the Panchatantra
  9. Lewis Carroll
  10. Tirukkural
  11. False
  12. Sanskrit
  13. Thiruvalluvar
  14. Kalidasa
  15. False
  16. the Mahabharata
  17. the Ramayana
  18. True
  19. Meghaduta
  20. Sanskrit
  21. the Mahabharata
  22. True
  23. Bengali
  24. True
  25. 18
  26. Rama
  27. Krishna
  28. True
  29. True
  30. False
  31. False
  32. 5
  33. animal stories
  34. False
  35. True
  36. True
  37. False
  38. Hindi
  39. Sanskrit
  40. Awadhi

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