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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 416 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  4. 4.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  11. 11.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) maps (d) recipes
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  15. 15.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  17. 17.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  20. 20.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  23. 23.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  26. 26.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  29. 29.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  35. 35.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  39. 39.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  40. 40.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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