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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 576 · 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 was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  3. 3.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  6. 6.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  7. 7.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  11. 11.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  14. 14.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Premchand wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  22. 22.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  23. 23.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  24. 24.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  26. 26.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  29. 29.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  35. 35.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  36. 36.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer key

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

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