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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 732 · 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.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  8. 8.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  10. 10.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  11. 11.True or false: Premchand wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  15. 15.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  21. 21.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  23. 23.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  24. 24.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  25. 25.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  29. 29.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  30. 30.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. False
  3. True
  4. Kalidasa
  5. 18
  6. the Ramayana
  7. Krishna
  8. Rama
  9. English
  10. Wings of Fire
  11. False
  12. 5
  13. True
  14. animal stories
  15. False
  16. the Mahabharata
  17. Sanskrit
  18. False
  19. Vishnu Sharma
  20. English
  21. True
  22. Premchand
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. the Panchatantra
  25. False
  26. Ramcharitmanas
  27. False
  28. Hindi
  29. Alice in Wonderland
  30. False
  31. False
  32. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  33. False
  34. False
  35. Mowgli
  36. Premchand
  37. True
  38. False
  39. Tamil
  40. True

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