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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 223 · 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.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  6. 6.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  7. 7.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  11. 11.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  15. 15.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  17. 17.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. 19.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  22. 22.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  23. 23.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  25. 25.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  27. 27.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  28. 28.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  30. 30.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  39. 39.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. the Mahabharata
  3. Awadhi
  4. 18
  5. Vishnu Sharma
  6. the Panchatantra
  7. False
  8. Kalidasa
  9. English
  10. Lewis Carroll
  11. Gitanjali
  12. Meghaduta
  13. True
  14. Mowgli
  15. False
  16. Alice in Wonderland
  17. True
  18. Thiruvalluvar
  19. True
  20. Sanskrit
  21. Rudyard Kipling
  22. Rama
  23. True
  24. Tirukkural
  25. True
  26. Wings of Fire
  27. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  28. True
  29. the Ramayana
  30. False
  31. Tulsidas
  32. Hindi
  33. False
  34. False
  35. Premchand
  36. Sanskrit
  37. False
  38. the Mahabharata
  39. True
  40. False

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