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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 177 · 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.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  2. 2.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  6. 6.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  11. 11.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  12. 12.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  13. 13.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  17. 17.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  23. 23.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  24. 24.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  28. 28.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  29. 29.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. the Mahabharata
  2. False
  3. Premchand
  4. Ved Vyasa
  5. Kalidasa
  6. False
  7. True
  8. Rama
  9. Bengali
  10. Tulsidas
  11. Tirukkural
  12. Krishna
  13. False
  14. animal stories
  15. Sanskrit
  16. Tamil
  17. Mowgli
  18. the Panchatantra
  19. False
  20. True
  21. the Mahabharata
  22. 18
  23. Alice in Wonderland
  24. True
  25. True
  26. True
  27. 5
  28. 18
  29. False
  30. Awadhi
  31. Idgah
  32. Valmiki
  33. English
  34. Premchand
  35. Thiruvalluvar
  36. False
  37. False
  38. True
  39. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  40. True

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