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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 658 · 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.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  3. 3.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  10. 10.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  12. 12.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  13. 13.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  15. 15.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  17. 17.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  22. 22.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  27. 27.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  30. 30.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  35. 35.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  36. 36.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  37. 37.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  39. 39.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  40. 40.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah

Answer key

  1. Sanskrit
  2. Premchand
  3. True
  4. 18
  5. Tirukkural
  6. Sanskrit
  7. 18
  8. True
  9. Rabindranath Tagore
  10. Wings of Fire
  11. Ved Vyasa
  12. Krishna
  13. False
  14. Mowgli
  15. False
  16. Idgah
  17. True
  18. True
  19. False
  20. Sanskrit
  21. Sanskrit
  22. True
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. True
  25. Lewis Carroll
  26. Kalidasa
  27. True
  28. True
  29. English
  30. False
  31. Meghaduta
  32. True
  33. Vishnu Sharma
  34. Awadhi
  35. the Ramayana
  36. the Panchatantra
  37. False
  38. Rama
  39. Ramcharitmanas
  40. Gitanjali

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