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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 654 · 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.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  3. 3.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) war songs
  4. 4.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  11. 11.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  13. 13.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  16. 16.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  20. 20.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  21. 21.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  25. 25.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  26. 26.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  31. 31.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  32. 32.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  34. 34.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  37. 37.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  39. 39.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Sanskrit
  3. animal stories
  4. False
  5. False
  6. Tirukkural
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. 18
  9. 5
  10. The Jungle Book
  11. the Ramayana
  12. Alice in Wonderland
  13. True
  14. Sanskrit
  15. Sanskrit
  16. False
  17. True
  18. Krishna
  19. Kalidasa
  20. Meghaduta
  21. True
  22. Gitanjali
  23. Thiruvalluvar
  24. Kalidasa
  25. Rama
  26. False
  27. True
  28. the Mahabharata
  29. False
  30. Premchand
  31. the Panchatantra
  32. True
  33. Tulsidas
  34. False
  35. True
  36. Vishnu Sharma
  37. Wings of Fire
  38. Bengali
  39. False
  40. False

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