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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 441 · 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.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  4. 4.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  8. 8.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  11. 11.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  14. 14.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  16. 16.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  17. 17.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  19. 19.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  23. 23.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  24. 24.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  26. 26.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  30. 30.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  32. 32.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  35. 35.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  38. 38.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  39. 39.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. False
  3. Ved Vyasa
  4. 5
  5. The Jungle Book
  6. Premchand
  7. Premchand
  8. False
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. English
  11. True
  12. the Ramayana
  13. Tirukkural
  14. animal stories
  15. Hindi
  16. Rama
  17. True
  18. Rudyard Kipling
  19. Gitanjali
  20. Tamil
  21. Valmiki
  22. English
  23. 18
  24. False
  25. Tulsidas
  26. True
  27. False
  28. False
  29. the Mahabharata
  30. Godan
  31. Lewis Carroll
  32. False
  33. Awadhi
  34. Kalidasa
  35. True
  36. False
  37. Vishnu Sharma
  38. Ramcharitmanas
  39. True
  40. True

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