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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 379 · 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.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  2. 2.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  4. 4.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  5. 5.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  11. 11.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  17. 17.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  18. 18.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  22. 22.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  24. 24.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  25. 25.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. 27.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  31. 31.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  34. 34.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  39. 39.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

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

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