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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 216 · 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 Idgah? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  6. 6.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  13. 13.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  15. 15.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  20. 20.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  21. 21.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  25. 25.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  31. 31.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  32. 32.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  34. 34.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  39. 39.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  40. 40.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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