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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 472 · 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 Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  5. 5.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  6. 6.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  9. 9.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  12. 12.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  17. 17.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  18. 18.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  24. 24.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  26. 26.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  31. 31.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  32. 32.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  34. 34.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  37. 37.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Gitanjali
  3. 18
  4. Kalidasa
  5. Krishna
  6. Tirukkural
  7. Sanskrit
  8. Ved Vyasa
  9. True
  10. Rudyard Kipling
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. Mowgli
  13. Valmiki
  14. True
  15. True
  16. English
  17. 5
  18. Meghaduta
  19. True
  20. Rabindranath Tagore
  21. Tulsidas
  22. the Mahabharata
  23. animal stories
  24. the Ramayana
  25. English
  26. True
  27. Premchand
  28. Sanskrit
  29. Sanskrit
  30. Awadhi
  31. Ramcharitmanas
  32. Rama
  33. Tamil
  34. True
  35. True
  36. Kalidasa
  37. True
  38. False
  39. Wings of Fire
  40. Premchand

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