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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 477 · 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.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  4. 4.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  6. 6.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  16. 16.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  20. 20.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  23. 23.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  25. 25.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  32. 32.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  34. 34.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  35. 35.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  36. 36.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. the Mahabharata
  2. 18
  3. Vishnu Sharma
  4. False
  5. English
  6. Gitanjali
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. True
  9. False
  10. Thiruvalluvar
  11. Sanskrit
  12. False
  13. 5
  14. Alice in Wonderland
  15. Kalidasa
  16. True
  17. Tamil
  18. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. Meghaduta
  20. True
  21. False
  22. 18
  23. Rama
  24. Hindi
  25. True
  26. False
  27. False
  28. True
  29. False
  30. Idgah
  31. Kalidasa
  32. Krishna
  33. English
  34. the Ramayana
  35. Mowgli
  36. Tirukkural
  37. True
  38. False
  39. False
  40. False

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