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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 740 · 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 Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  5. 5.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  6. 6.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  8. 8.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  23. 23.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  26. 26.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  28. 28.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  31. 31.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  35. 35.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  40. 40.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. Gitanjali
  3. False
  4. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. Krishna
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. Tamil
  8. True
  9. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  10. Premchand
  11. the Panchatantra
  12. 18
  13. True
  14. True
  15. False
  16. True
  17. Bengali
  18. Thiruvalluvar
  19. 18
  20. Rabindranath Tagore
  21. Wings of Fire
  22. Tirukkural
  23. Rama
  24. Sanskrit
  25. Idgah
  26. False
  27. Awadhi
  28. True
  29. Sanskrit
  30. Premchand
  31. False
  32. True
  33. False
  34. English
  35. False
  36. True
  37. False
  38. True
  39. animal stories
  40. False

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