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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 56 · 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) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  2. 2.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  13. 13.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  18. 18.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  21. 21.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  23. 23.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) Idgah
  24. 24.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  29. 29.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  34. 34.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi

Answer key

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

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