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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 211 · 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 Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
  4. 4.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  5. 5.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  8. 8.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  17. 17.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  19. 19.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  21. 21.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  23. 23.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  35. 35.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  37. 37.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English

Answer key

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

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