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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 396 · 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.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  2. 2.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  5. 5.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  9. 9.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  20. 20.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  21. 21.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  27. 27.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  29. 29.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  35. 35.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  39. 39.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Ramcharitmanas
  3. English
  4. Bengali
  5. True
  6. True
  7. True
  8. Tirukkural
  9. True
  10. the Mahabharata
  11. Sanskrit
  12. True
  13. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  14. the Ramayana
  15. Krishna
  16. Rabindranath Tagore
  17. Rama
  18. Ved Vyasa
  19. English
  20. 18
  21. False
  22. False
  23. True
  24. English
  25. Kalidasa
  26. Premchand
  27. True
  28. Idgah
  29. animal stories
  30. Tulsidas
  31. Premchand
  32. the Panchatantra
  33. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  34. Rudyard Kipling
  35. False
  36. Gitanjali
  37. Valmiki
  38. Hindi
  39. True
  40. True

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