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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 433 · 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.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  8. 8.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  10. 10.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. 12.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  15. 15.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  16. 16.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  18. 18.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  22. 22.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  28. 28.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  30. 30.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  35. 35.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  37. 37.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  39. 39.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali

Answer key

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

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