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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 196 · 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.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  3. 3.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  11. 11.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  18. 18.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  19. 19.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  21. 21.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  23. 23.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  25. 25.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  28. 28.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  29. 29.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  32. 32.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  33. 33.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  34. 34.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Ved Vyasa
  2. the Panchatantra
  3. False
  4. Rabindranath Tagore
  5. Sanskrit
  6. 5
  7. Premchand
  8. Sanskrit
  9. Rama
  10. Premchand
  11. False
  12. Thiruvalluvar
  13. Lewis Carroll
  14. Krishna
  15. 18
  16. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  17. Tamil
  18. Gitanjali
  19. The Jungle Book
  20. Tulsidas
  21. Ramcharitmanas
  22. English
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. Sanskrit
  25. False
  26. Hindi
  27. English
  28. Wings of Fire
  29. True
  30. Valmiki
  31. Mowgli
  32. 18
  33. the Mahabharata
  34. False
  35. False
  36. False
  37. False
  38. True
  39. False
  40. True

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