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GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 381 · 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 Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  2. 2.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  4. 4.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  8. 8.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  13. 13.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  25. 25.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  34. 34.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  38. 38.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  39. 39.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa

Answer key

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

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