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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 861 · 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.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  3. 3.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  5. 5.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  10. 10.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  13. 13.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  14. 14.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  15. 15.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  17. 17.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  20. 20.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  28. 28.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  30. 30.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  31. 31.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  34. 34.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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