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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 231 · 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 Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  18. 18.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  21. 21.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  23. 23.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  30. 30.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  39. 39.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps

Answer key

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

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