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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 494 · 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.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  3. 3.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  7. 7.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  11. 11.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  12. 12.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  14. 14.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  17. 17.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  22. 22.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  25. 25.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  26. 26.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  29. 29.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  30. 30.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  31. 31.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  39. 39.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Sanskrit
  3. False
  4. 18
  5. Kalidasa
  6. English
  7. Wings of Fire
  8. Awadhi
  9. 5
  10. Mowgli
  11. Godan
  12. The Jungle Book
  13. Krishna
  14. False
  15. True
  16. Sanskrit
  17. True
  18. Sanskrit
  19. True
  20. False
  21. Rama
  22. False
  23. True
  24. the Panchatantra
  25. Ramcharitmanas
  26. True
  27. Rudyard Kipling
  28. Premchand
  29. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  30. the Ramayana
  31. False
  32. True
  33. True
  34. False
  35. Thiruvalluvar
  36. Bengali
  37. Valmiki
  38. Premchand
  39. False
  40. Tirukkural

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