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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 61 · 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 books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  4. 4.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  7. 7.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  14. 14.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  18. 18.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  22. 22.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  24. 24.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  27. 27.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  29. 29.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  32. 32.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  34. 34.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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