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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 245 · 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 is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  3. 3.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  7. 7.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  9. 9.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  12. 12.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  14. 14.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  19. 19.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  21. 21.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  22. 22.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  23. 23.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  29. 29.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  36. 36.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Godan
  37. 37.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  39. 39.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. Rama
  3. True
  4. 18
  5. Tulsidas
  6. English
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. Tamil
  9. False
  10. False
  11. the Panchatantra
  12. Mowgli
  13. Sanskrit
  14. True
  15. Sanskrit
  16. False
  17. Ved Vyasa
  18. Vishnu Sharma
  19. False
  20. Kalidasa
  21. Meghaduta
  22. Gitanjali
  23. False
  24. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  25. False
  26. False
  27. False
  28. 18
  29. False
  30. False
  31. Godan
  32. False
  33. False
  34. Tirukkural
  35. Valmiki
  36. the Ramayana
  37. Krishna
  38. Awadhi
  39. True
  40. Ramcharitmanas

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