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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 221 · 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.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  5. 5.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  7. 7.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  9. 9.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  10. 10.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  13. 13.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  14. 14.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  15. 15.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  19. 19.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  22. 22.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  27. 27.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  30. 30.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  31. 31.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  32. 32.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  33. 33.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  37. 37.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  38. 38.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. True
  2. True
  3. False
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. Godan
  6. Tulsidas
  7. True
  8. Wings of Fire
  9. 18
  10. False
  11. True
  12. Bengali
  13. Krishna
  14. animal stories
  15. False
  16. Thiruvalluvar
  17. Ved Vyasa
  18. Kalidasa
  19. False
  20. False
  21. Awadhi
  22. Tirukkural
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. English
  25. Lewis Carroll
  26. Sanskrit
  27. 18
  28. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  29. Rabindranath Tagore
  30. Ramcharitmanas
  31. 5
  32. Rama
  33. True
  34. False
  35. Kalidasa
  36. Hindi
  37. the Panchatantra
  38. False
  39. Sanskrit
  40. False

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