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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 503 · 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.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  3. 3.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  4. 4.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  7. 7.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  11. 11.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  15. 15.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  18. 18.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  20. 20.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  24. 24.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.True or false: Premchand wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  38. 38.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand

Answer key

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

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