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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 832 · 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) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  3. 3.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  5. 5.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  6. 6.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  14. 14.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  19. 19.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  21. 21.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  22. 22.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  26. 26.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  27. 27.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  30. 30.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  35. 35.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana

Answer key

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

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