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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 479 · 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.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  5. 5.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  6. 6.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  8. 8.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  12. 12.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  15. 15.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  17. 17.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  18. 18.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  22. 22.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  26. 26.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  27. 27.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  29. 29.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  38. 38.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer key

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

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