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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 353 · 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) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  7. 7.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  8. 8.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  14. 14.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  15. 15.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  17. 17.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  20. 20.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  22. 22.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  28. 28.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  30. 30.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  31. 31.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  32. 32.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  34. 34.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  37. 37.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  38. 38.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) war songs
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  40. 40.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman

Answer key

  1. Kalidasa
  2. False
  3. 18
  4. Sanskrit
  5. English
  6. Rabindranath Tagore
  7. Gitanjali
  8. True
  9. True
  10. Lewis Carroll
  11. 5
  12. 18
  13. Rama
  14. Tirukkural
  15. False
  16. Sanskrit
  17. True
  18. the Mahabharata
  19. Kalidasa
  20. Wings of Fire
  21. Ved Vyasa
  22. False
  23. True
  24. Bengali
  25. Valmiki
  26. Awadhi
  27. The Jungle Book
  28. False
  29. Godan
  30. Alice in Wonderland
  31. Mowgli
  32. False
  33. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  34. True
  35. False
  36. Ramcharitmanas
  37. the Panchatantra
  38. animal stories
  39. Premchand
  40. Krishna

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