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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 897 · 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.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  8. 8.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  10. 10.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  14. 14.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  15. 15.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  18. 18.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  21. 21.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  23. 23.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  27. 27.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  28. 28.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  33. 33.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  34. 34.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  35. 35.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  37. 37.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  39. 39.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling

Answer key

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

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