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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 411 · 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.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  3. 3.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  7. 7.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  9. 9.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. 12.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  13. 13.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  25. 25.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  27. 27.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  30. 30.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  34. 34.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  37. 37.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  39. 39.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi

Answer key

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

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