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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 718 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  3. 3.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  9. 9.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  13. 13.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  15. 15.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  21. 21.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  22. 22.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  24. 24.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  27. 27.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  28. 28.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  32. 32.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  36. 36.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. animal stories
  3. False
  4. True
  5. False
  6. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. Valmiki
  8. Tamil
  9. True
  10. Ramcharitmanas
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. English
  13. True
  14. Vishnu Sharma
  15. Gitanjali
  16. 18
  17. the Ramayana
  18. Lewis Carroll
  19. True
  20. Kalidasa
  21. Meghaduta
  22. False
  23. Rudyard Kipling
  24. False
  25. the Mahabharata
  26. Sanskrit
  27. 5
  28. the Panchatantra
  29. False
  30. Sanskrit
  31. Thiruvalluvar
  32. True
  33. English
  34. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  35. Hindi
  36. False
  37. Alice in Wonderland
  38. False
  39. Sanskrit
  40. Rabindranath Tagore

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