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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 518 · 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.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) Idgah
  4. 4.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  6. 6.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  7. 7.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  8. 8.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  16. 16.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  18. 18.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  21. 21.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  27. 27.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  28. 28.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  35. 35.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  36. 36.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. 5
  3. The Jungle Book
  4. True
  5. animal stories
  6. Idgah
  7. Rama
  8. False
  9. Sanskrit
  10. Tamil
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. Vishnu Sharma
  13. Tulsidas
  14. Valmiki
  15. Awadhi
  16. Ramcharitmanas
  17. the Ramayana
  18. True
  19. 18
  20. Sanskrit
  21. False
  22. True
  23. True
  24. True
  25. False
  26. Godan
  27. Gitanjali
  28. False
  29. False
  30. False
  31. Krishna
  32. English
  33. English
  34. Premchand
  35. the Mahabharata
  36. True
  37. False
  38. Lewis Carroll
  39. True
  40. Hindi

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