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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 694 · 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 Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  4. 4.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  6. 6.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  9. 9.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  11. 11.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  13. 13.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  24. 24.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  29. 29.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  32. 32.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  35. 35.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  36. 36.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  38. 38.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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