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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 490 · 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 chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  10. 10.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  13. 13.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  17. 17.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  21. 21.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  23. 23.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  24. 24.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  26. 26.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  33. 33.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  35. 35.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  36. 36.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  37. 37.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  39. 39.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Kalidasa
  3. 18
  4. False
  5. 5
  6. False
  7. Sanskrit
  8. animal stories
  9. Valmiki
  10. True
  11. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. Premchand
  13. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  14. Ved Vyasa
  15. Krishna
  16. Tulsidas
  17. False
  18. the Panchatantra
  19. English
  20. Hindi
  21. False
  22. Lewis Carroll
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. Gitanjali
  25. Kalidasa
  26. True
  27. False
  28. True
  29. True
  30. True
  31. the Ramayana
  32. Rudyard Kipling
  33. True
  34. Tirukkural
  35. Ramcharitmanas
  36. Mowgli
  37. True
  38. the Mahabharata
  39. False
  40. False

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