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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 237 · 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 is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  10. 10.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  12. 12.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  14. 14.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  17. 17.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  22. 22.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  26. 26.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  27. 27.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  29. 29.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Premchand wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  33. 33.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  37. 37.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  38. 38.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  39. 39.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Rama
  3. English
  4. Alice in Wonderland
  5. Thiruvalluvar
  6. Tamil
  7. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  8. 18
  9. animal stories
  10. True
  11. Premchand
  12. False
  13. Bengali
  14. True
  15. True
  16. Kalidasa
  17. Mowgli
  18. Sanskrit
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. False
  21. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  22. True
  23. True
  24. False
  25. Krishna
  26. the Panchatantra
  27. True
  28. Valmiki
  29. False
  30. False
  31. False
  32. Gitanjali
  33. False
  34. the Mahabharata
  35. Awadhi
  36. English
  37. 5
  38. Tirukkural
  39. Wings of Fire
  40. Rabindranath Tagore

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