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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 811 · 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 chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  4. 4.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  10. 10.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Godan
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  14. 14.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  17. 17.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  18. 18.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Godan
  20. 20.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  22. 22.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  26. 26.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  28. 28.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  30. 30.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  33. 33.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  35. 35.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  39. 39.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  40. 40.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Rama
  3. Thiruvalluvar
  4. False
  5. Sanskrit
  6. 5
  7. Sanskrit
  8. English
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. False
  11. True
  12. Godan
  13. English
  14. Gitanjali
  15. False
  16. the Ramayana
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. True
  19. Ramcharitmanas
  20. True
  21. Kalidasa
  22. False
  23. the Panchatantra
  24. Krishna
  25. English
  26. False
  27. Premchand
  28. True
  29. Ved Vyasa
  30. False
  31. False
  32. Awadhi
  33. Mowgli
  34. Sanskrit
  35. True
  36. True
  37. True
  38. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  39. Tirukkural
  40. Wings of Fire

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