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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 626 · 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.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  8. 8.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  15. 15.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  19. 19.True or false: Premchand wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  21. 21.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  23. 23.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  28. 28.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  29. 29.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  36. 36.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  40. 40.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. False
  2. 18
  3. English
  4. Tamil
  5. 18
  6. Ramcharitmanas
  7. Thiruvalluvar
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. Ved Vyasa
  11. Lewis Carroll
  12. Rabindranath Tagore
  13. 5
  14. Kalidasa
  15. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. True
  17. Krishna
  18. animal stories
  19. False
  20. Rudyard Kipling
  21. the Panchatantra
  22. Premchand
  23. True
  24. Sanskrit
  25. False
  26. False
  27. Vishnu Sharma
  28. Gitanjali
  29. True
  30. True
  31. True
  32. True
  33. the Ramayana
  34. Bengali
  35. Sanskrit
  36. Alice in Wonderland
  37. False
  38. Valmiki
  39. English
  40. False

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