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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 846 · 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 wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  3. 3.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  4. 4.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  7. 7.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  11. 11.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  13. 13.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  16. 16.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  20. 20.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  22. 22.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  28. 28.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  30. 30.True or false: Premchand wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  32. 32.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  36. 36.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland

Answer key

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

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