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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 849 · 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 Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  8. 8.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  9. 9.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  19. 19.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  27. 27.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  31. 31.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  33. 33.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  34. 34.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  37. 37.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. the Mahabharata
  2. Tamil
  3. 18
  4. Bengali
  5. Premchand
  6. English
  7. Lewis Carroll
  8. Krishna
  9. the Ramayana
  10. False
  11. False
  12. the Panchatantra
  13. 5
  14. Meghaduta
  15. False
  16. False
  17. Sanskrit
  18. Thiruvalluvar
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. True
  21. False
  22. True
  23. Kalidasa
  24. Premchand
  25. False
  26. Awadhi
  27. Ramcharitmanas
  28. English
  29. Sanskrit
  30. Tulsidas
  31. True
  32. Ved Vyasa
  33. Rama
  34. Mowgli
  35. True
  36. English
  37. Tirukkural
  38. True
  39. True
  40. False

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