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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 848 · 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 Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  3. 3.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  5. 5.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  8. 8.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  10. 10.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  14. 14.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  15. 15.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  17. 17.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  19. 19.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  21. 21.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  22. 22.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  24. 24.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  28. 28.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  32. 32.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  34. 34.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  40. 40.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Ved Vyasa
  3. False
  4. Bengali
  5. False
  6. False
  7. Awadhi
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. Rama
  10. True
  11. False
  12. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  13. English
  14. Alice in Wonderland
  15. True
  16. Tirukkural
  17. False
  18. 5
  19. False
  20. The Jungle Book
  21. 18
  22. False
  23. Idgah
  24. False
  25. Kalidasa
  26. Sanskrit
  27. Thiruvalluvar
  28. Mowgli
  29. False
  30. Sanskrit
  31. Kalidasa
  32. False
  33. Ramcharitmanas
  34. the Mahabharata
  35. Rabindranath Tagore
  36. Vishnu Sharma
  37. False
  38. False
  39. Gitanjali
  40. Meghaduta

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