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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 803 · 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.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  5. 5.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  6. 6.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  11. 11.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  17. 17.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  21. 21.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  24. 24.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  30. 30.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  34. 34.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

  1. Rama
  2. 18
  3. Thiruvalluvar
  4. Tamil
  5. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  6. False
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. False
  9. True
  10. Sanskrit
  11. True
  12. 5
  13. Idgah
  14. Mowgli
  15. 18
  16. Valmiki
  17. False
  18. Kalidasa
  19. English
  20. Hindi
  21. the Panchatantra
  22. Sanskrit
  23. Premchand
  24. False
  25. the Ramayana
  26. False
  27. Tulsidas
  28. animal stories
  29. Sanskrit
  30. False
  31. True
  32. False
  33. Krishna
  34. Gitanjali
  35. False
  36. Lewis Carroll
  37. Sanskrit
  38. Tirukkural
  39. False
  40. Awadhi

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