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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 724 · 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 was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  4. 4.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  10. 10.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  14. 14.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  16. 16.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  17. 17.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  18. 18.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  20. 20.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  21. 21.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  25. 25.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  29. 29.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  31. 31.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  35. 35.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  37. 37.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa

Answer key

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

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