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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 551 · 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.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  4. 4.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  18. 18.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  20. 20.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  24. 24.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  26. 26.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  28. 28.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  30. 30.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  32. 32.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  36. 36.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  38. 38.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  40. 40.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. True
  3. Awadhi
  4. Ramcharitmanas
  5. The Jungle Book
  6. Tulsidas
  7. English
  8. Thiruvalluvar
  9. Ved Vyasa
  10. the Mahabharata
  11. Valmiki
  12. the Panchatantra
  13. Kalidasa
  14. False
  15. English
  16. the Ramayana
  17. 5
  18. Tirukkural
  19. Idgah
  20. False
  21. Sanskrit
  22. animal stories
  23. Rudyard Kipling
  24. True
  25. Wings of Fire
  26. True
  27. Sanskrit
  28. False
  29. Bengali
  30. True
  31. 18
  32. False
  33. True
  34. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  35. Lewis Carroll
  36. True
  37. Tamil
  38. Krishna
  39. Sanskrit
  40. False

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