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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 779 · 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 books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  2. 2.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  5. 5.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  7. 7.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  10. 10.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  17. 17.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  20. 20.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  23. 23.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  25. 25.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  29. 29.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  33. 33.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  35. 35.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  36. 36.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  37. 37.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  38. 38.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  40. 40.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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