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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 524 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  4. 4.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  10. 10.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  11. 11.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  13. 13.True or false: Premchand wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  17. 17.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Idgah
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  23. 23.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  25. 25.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  26. 26.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  28. 28.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  30. 30.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  31. 31.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  33. 33.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  34. 34.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  37. 37.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Awadhi
  3. Thiruvalluvar
  4. True
  5. True
  6. True
  7. True
  8. Ramcharitmanas
  9. Krishna
  10. Godan
  11. True
  12. Sanskrit
  13. False
  14. False
  15. Alice in Wonderland
  16. Premchand
  17. Gitanjali
  18. the Panchatantra
  19. Sanskrit
  20. Premchand
  21. English
  22. Kalidasa
  23. False
  24. Rama
  25. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  26. 18
  27. Valmiki
  28. False
  29. animal stories
  30. 5
  31. False
  32. the Mahabharata
  33. Mowgli
  34. the Mahabharata
  35. Ved Vyasa
  36. Idgah
  37. the Ramayana
  38. False
  39. True
  40. True

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