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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 238 · 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.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  5. 5.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  9. 9.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  16. 16.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  18. 18.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  20. 20.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  22. 22.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  26. 26.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  31. 31.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  32. 32.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  33. 33.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  35. 35.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  39. 39.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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