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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 888 · 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 Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  16. 16.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  20. 20.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  22. 22.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  23. 23.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  25. 25.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  26. 26.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  29. 29.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Premchand wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  39. 39.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  40. 40.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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