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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 873 · 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) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  7. 7.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) Godan
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  15. 15.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  16. 16.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  18. 18.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  23. 23.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  29. 29.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  33. 33.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) maps (d) war songs
  34. 34.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  40. 40.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

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

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