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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 838 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  2. 2.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  6. 6.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  11. 11.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  13. 13.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  21. 21.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  24. 24.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  28. 28.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  32. 32.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  36. 36.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  38. 38.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi

Answer key

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

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