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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 748 · 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.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  9. 9.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  13. 13.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  14. 14.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  21. 21.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  22. 22.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  24. 24.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  25. 25.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  27. 27.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  28. 28.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Karna
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  39. 39.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  40. 40.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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