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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 86 · 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.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  8. 8.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  9. 9.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) maps
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  16. 16.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  17. 17.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  20. 20.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  27. 27.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  30. 30.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  32. 32.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  34. 34.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  39. 39.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  40. 40.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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