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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 683 · 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 Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  6. 6.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  9. 9.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  10. 10.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  17. 17.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  19. 19.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  22. 22.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  33. 33.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  34. 34.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  40. 40.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. 18
  3. True
  4. True
  5. Vishnu Sharma
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. English
  8. Tamil
  9. 18
  10. False
  11. the Ramayana
  12. False
  13. False
  14. the Mahabharata
  15. English
  16. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  17. False
  18. Sanskrit
  19. False
  20. Tulsidas
  21. Rudyard Kipling
  22. False
  23. True
  24. Sanskrit
  25. False
  26. Mowgli
  27. Awadhi
  28. Ramcharitmanas
  29. Rama
  30. Ved Vyasa
  31. Premchand
  32. Wings of Fire
  33. Krishna
  34. True
  35. False
  36. False
  37. True
  38. True
  39. Hindi
  40. False

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