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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 180 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  6. 6.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  8. 8.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  11. 11.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) war songs
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  17. 17.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  19. 19.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  21. 21.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  26. 26.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  29. 29.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  30. 30.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  33. 33.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. 18
  3. Awadhi
  4. Valmiki
  5. Thiruvalluvar
  6. Tirukkural
  7. Rudyard Kipling
  8. Mowgli
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. Sanskrit
  11. False
  12. False
  13. animal stories
  14. English
  15. 5
  16. Rabindranath Tagore
  17. True
  18. Hindi
  19. the Ramayana
  20. Sanskrit
  21. Gitanjali
  22. False
  23. False
  24. Krishna
  25. Tulsidas
  26. True
  27. the Panchatantra
  28. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  29. Godan
  30. the Mahabharata
  31. Vishnu Sharma
  32. Premchand
  33. False
  34. False
  35. True
  36. True
  37. False
  38. False
  39. True
  40. True

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