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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 204 · 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 chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  16. 16.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  24. 24.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  26. 26.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  29. 29.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  32. 32.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  33. 33.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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