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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 322 · 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) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  7. 7.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  11. 11.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  14. 14.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  22. 22.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  23. 23.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  24. 24.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  29. 29.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  35. 35.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. the Mahabharata
  2. Sanskrit
  3. 18
  4. Tulsidas
  5. Hindi
  6. Krishna
  7. False
  8. True
  9. True
  10. Tirukkural
  11. True
  12. Rama
  13. the Mahabharata
  14. False
  15. Mowgli
  16. animal stories
  17. English
  18. Ramcharitmanas
  19. the Panchatantra
  20. Premchand
  21. Kalidasa
  22. 18
  23. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  24. True
  25. Bengali
  26. True
  27. 5
  28. Kalidasa
  29. Meghaduta
  30. English
  31. Ved Vyasa
  32. True
  33. Sanskrit
  34. Vishnu Sharma
  35. True
  36. False
  37. Alice in Wonderland
  38. False
  39. True
  40. False

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