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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 206 · 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.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  4. 4.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  5. 5.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  6. 6.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  8. 8.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  9. 9.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Idgah (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  10. 10.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  11. 11.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  14. 14.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  21. 21.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  26. 26.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  28. 28.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  37. 37.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  39. 39.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  40. 40.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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