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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 293 · 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.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  2. 2.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  6. 6.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  7. 7.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  11. 11.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  13. 13.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  17. 17.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Wings of Fire
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  21. 21.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  22. 22.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  23. 23.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  25. 25.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  29. 29.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  36. 36.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  40. 40.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?

Answer key

  1. Krishna
  2. True
  3. Hindi
  4. Rama
  5. Rabindranath Tagore
  6. Meghaduta
  7. True
  8. Kalidasa
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. the Ramayana
  11. False
  12. Gitanjali
  13. True
  14. Tirukkural
  15. Sanskrit
  16. Kalidasa
  17. the Panchatantra
  18. animal stories
  19. Godan
  20. English
  21. 18
  22. 18
  23. True
  24. Bengali
  25. False
  26. Alice in Wonderland
  27. Lewis Carroll
  28. Premchand
  29. True
  30. Rudyard Kipling
  31. False
  32. False
  33. False
  34. Ramcharitmanas
  35. Sanskrit
  36. True
  37. the Mahabharata
  38. True
  39. Premchand
  40. 5

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