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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 187 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  3. 3.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  5. 5.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  7. 7.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  8. 8.True or false: Premchand wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  20. 20.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Karna
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  24. 24.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  26. 26.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  29. 29.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  30. 30.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  32. 32.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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