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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 708 · 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 chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  2. 2.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  8. 8.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  9. 9.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  13. 13.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  16. 16.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  17. 17.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  21. 21.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  23. 23.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  28. 28.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  29. 29.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  37. 37.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Gitanjali
  3. the Mahabharata
  4. False
  5. Rama
  6. Bengali
  7. Thiruvalluvar
  8. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  9. True
  10. True
  11. Rudyard Kipling
  12. animal stories
  13. False
  14. The Jungle Book
  15. Tulsidas
  16. Godan
  17. 5
  18. Rabindranath Tagore
  19. Sanskrit
  20. 18
  21. True
  22. Ramcharitmanas
  23. True
  24. Tirukkural
  25. True
  26. Tamil
  27. Premchand
  28. Mowgli
  29. False
  30. True
  31. False
  32. False
  33. Vishnu Sharma
  34. Krishna
  35. False
  36. Ved Vyasa
  37. False
  38. Sanskrit
  39. False
  40. English

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