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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 495 · 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 Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  3. 3.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  11. 11.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  22. 22.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  27. 27.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  28. 28.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  30. 30.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  35. 35.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  37. 37.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  38. 38.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  39. 39.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Ramcharitmanas
  3. Alice in Wonderland
  4. Krishna
  5. Kalidasa
  6. 5
  7. False
  8. Gitanjali
  9. Valmiki
  10. Tulsidas
  11. True
  12. False
  13. True
  14. Rabindranath Tagore
  15. Sanskrit
  16. English
  17. Rudyard Kipling
  18. Kalidasa
  19. True
  20. Bengali
  21. Lewis Carroll
  22. True
  23. Tirukkural
  24. True
  25. Vishnu Sharma
  26. Hindi
  27. the Panchatantra
  28. True
  29. Thiruvalluvar
  30. False
  31. True
  32. 18
  33. Sanskrit
  34. Awadhi
  35. Meghaduta
  36. Sanskrit
  37. Mowgli
  38. the Mahabharata
  39. False
  40. False

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