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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 541 · 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.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  6. 6.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  9. 9.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  28. 28.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  29. 29.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  30. 30.True or false: Premchand wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  37. 37.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Hindi

Answer key

  1. Premchand
  2. the Mahabharata
  3. the Panchatantra
  4. Awadhi
  5. Hindi
  6. False
  7. False
  8. English
  9. The Jungle Book
  10. Vishnu Sharma
  11. 18
  12. Rama
  13. Thiruvalluvar
  14. 5
  15. True
  16. 18
  17. False
  18. False
  19. True
  20. True
  21. Mowgli
  22. False
  23. Krishna
  24. Bengali
  25. True
  26. Ved Vyasa
  27. Rabindranath Tagore
  28. Gitanjali
  29. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  30. False
  31. English
  32. Godan
  33. English
  34. False
  35. True
  36. Tulsidas
  37. Wings of Fire
  38. Sanskrit
  39. Lewis Carroll
  40. Sanskrit

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