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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 675 · 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 Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  2. 2.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) war songs
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  16. 16.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  17. 17.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  21. 21.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  23. 23.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  27. 27.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  30. 30.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  38. 38.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Ved Vyasa
  2. Wings of Fire
  3. 18
  4. Awadhi
  5. Sanskrit
  6. Sanskrit
  7. Krishna
  8. animal stories
  9. Thiruvalluvar
  10. the Mahabharata
  11. Mowgli
  12. the Panchatantra
  13. False
  14. 5
  15. the Mahabharata
  16. Gitanjali
  17. False
  18. False
  19. Bengali
  20. English
  21. False
  22. Valmiki
  23. False
  24. True
  25. Rama
  26. English
  27. False
  28. False
  29. 18
  30. Tirukkural
  31. True
  32. Lewis Carroll
  33. False
  34. False
  35. True
  36. False
  37. The Jungle Book
  38. True
  39. False
  40. True

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