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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 659 · 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 Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  5. 5.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  8. 8.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  10. 10.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  11. 11.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  16. 16.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  18. 18.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  20. 20.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  22. 22.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  28. 28.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  31. 31.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  33. 33.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  37. 37.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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