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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 841 · 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 wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  4. 4.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  5. 5.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  7. 7.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  9. 9.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  18. 18.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  24. 24.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  30. 30.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  33. 33.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  40. 40.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Valmiki
  3. Tulsidas
  4. the Panchatantra
  5. True
  6. Gitanjali
  7. Tirukkural
  8. Tamil
  9. The Jungle Book
  10. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  11. Lewis Carroll
  12. 5
  13. the Ramayana
  14. True
  15. False
  16. False
  17. Rama
  18. True
  19. False
  20. False
  21. Premchand
  22. True
  23. Meghaduta
  24. True
  25. the Mahabharata
  26. English
  27. True
  28. False
  29. Vishnu Sharma
  30. True
  31. True
  32. Mowgli
  33. Ramcharitmanas
  34. Bengali
  35. Kalidasa
  36. Sanskrit
  37. Sanskrit
  38. False
  39. Hindi
  40. 18

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