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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 215 · 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.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  6. 6.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  7. 7.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  9. 9.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  16. 16.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  17. 17.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  21. 21.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  24. 24.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  25. 25.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  26. 26.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  29. 29.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  30. 30.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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