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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 850 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  3. 3.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  6. 6.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  8. 8.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  11. 11.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  14. 14.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  18. 18.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  20. 20.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  21. 21.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  35. 35.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  36. 36.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  39. 39.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi

Answer key

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

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