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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 314 · 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) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  3. 3.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  10. 10.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  12. 12.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  14. 14.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  16. 16.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  17. 17.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  22. 22.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  24. 24.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  32. 32.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  40. 40.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

  1. the Mahabharata
  2. Ved Vyasa
  3. False
  4. Valmiki
  5. animal stories
  6. 5
  7. Vishnu Sharma
  8. Bengali
  9. Tamil
  10. the Mahabharata
  11. Sanskrit
  12. True
  13. Godan
  14. True
  15. 18
  16. the Panchatantra
  17. False
  18. True
  19. Sanskrit
  20. Rudyard Kipling
  21. Gitanjali
  22. Wings of Fire
  23. Rama
  24. 18
  25. Awadhi
  26. Tulsidas
  27. True
  28. False
  29. True
  30. Ramcharitmanas
  31. Hindi
  32. The Jungle Book
  33. False
  34. True
  35. False
  36. False
  37. Rabindranath Tagore
  38. Kalidasa
  39. Sanskrit
  40. the Ramayana

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