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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 316 · 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 Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  4. 4.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  12. 12.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  21. 21.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  23. 23.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  24. 24.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  25. 25.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  26. 26.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  31. 31.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  33. 33.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  40. 40.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

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

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