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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 351 · 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 wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  4. 4.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  5. 5.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  9. 9.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  15. 15.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  22. 22.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  23. 23.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  24. 24.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  26. 26.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  30. 30.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  35. 35.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  36. 36.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  37. 37.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo

Answer key

  1. Kalidasa
  2. the Mahabharata
  3. Hindi
  4. Meghaduta
  5. False
  6. Sanskrit
  7. Premchand
  8. Tulsidas
  9. False
  10. Valmiki
  11. Rudyard Kipling
  12. Tamil
  13. Premchand
  14. Krishna
  15. True
  16. False
  17. False
  18. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  19. Awadhi
  20. Ved Vyasa
  21. Bengali
  22. Gitanjali
  23. 5
  24. 18
  25. Rabindranath Tagore
  26. False
  27. False
  28. True
  29. the Ramayana
  30. True
  31. True
  32. True
  33. False
  34. 18
  35. Alice in Wonderland
  36. Rama
  37. False
  38. True
  39. True
  40. Mowgli

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