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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 57 · 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.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  3. 3.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  11. 11.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  13. 13.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  16. 16.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  18. 18.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  22. 22.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  24. 24.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  33. 33.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  37. 37.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  40. 40.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps

Answer key

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

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