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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 701 · 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.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  5. 5.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  6. 6.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  8. 8.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  14. 14.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  19. 19.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  21. 21.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  29. 29.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  31. 31.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  34. 34.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  35. 35.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa

Answer key

  1. the Mahabharata
  2. Tulsidas
  3. Bengali
  4. Hindi
  5. Alice in Wonderland
  6. True
  7. the Panchatantra
  8. False
  9. False
  10. Mowgli
  11. 5
  12. Sanskrit
  13. Tamil
  14. False
  15. Godan
  16. Awadhi
  17. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  18. The Jungle Book
  19. Gitanjali
  20. Sanskrit
  21. 18
  22. False
  23. True
  24. False
  25. Wings of Fire
  26. Sanskrit
  27. the Ramayana
  28. English
  29. Ramcharitmanas
  30. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  31. False
  32. Ved Vyasa
  33. Premchand
  34. Rama
  35. 18
  36. Valmiki
  37. True
  38. False
  39. True
  40. Kalidasa

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