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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 80 · 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.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  4. 4.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  10. 10.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  15. 15.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  17. 17.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  20. 20.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  22. 22.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  24. 24.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  37. 37.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  39. 39.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali

Answer key

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

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