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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 646 · 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 Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  3. 3.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  4. 4.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  10. 10.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  14. 14.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  27. 27.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Valmiki wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  34. 34.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  36. 36.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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