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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 678 · 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 Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  2. 2.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  3. 3.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  4. 4.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  5. 5.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  7. 7.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  9. 9.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  16. 16.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  19. 19.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  25. 25.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  27. 27.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  33. 33.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  39. 39.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Vishnu Sharma
  2. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. Gitanjali
  4. Rama
  5. the Panchatantra
  6. Bengali
  7. True
  8. Premchand
  9. False
  10. 18
  11. English
  12. Rudyard Kipling
  13. Kalidasa
  14. Awadhi
  15. Ramcharitmanas
  16. False
  17. Sanskrit
  18. 18
  19. True
  20. False
  21. 5
  22. False
  23. True
  24. English
  25. True
  26. animal stories
  27. False
  28. Sanskrit
  29. True
  30. True
  31. Krishna
  32. Tulsidas
  33. False
  34. Kalidasa
  35. False
  36. False
  37. False
  38. Premchand
  39. True
  40. False

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