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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 633 · 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 wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  5. 5.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  8. 8.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  13. 13.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  15. 15.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  16. 16.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  23. 23.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  26. 26.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  37. 37.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  40. 40.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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