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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 859 · 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.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  4. 4.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  6. 6.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  11. 11.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  18. 18.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  24. 24.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  26. 26.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  30. 30.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  35. 35.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  40. 40.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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