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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 81 · 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.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  3. 3.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  6. 6.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  16. 16.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  22. 22.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) maps (d) recipes
  25. 25.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  29. 29.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  31. 31.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Answer key

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

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