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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 591 · 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 Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  6. 6.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  9. 9.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  15. 15.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  24. 24.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  26. 26.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  28. 28.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  30. 30.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  32. 32.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  33. 33.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll

Answer key

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

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