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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 933 · 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.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  4. 4.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  5. 5.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  14. 14.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  16. 16.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  21. 21.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  24. 24.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  26. 26.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  27. 27.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  34. 34.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  36. 36.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  39. 39.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Krishna
  3. Sanskrit
  4. Gitanjali
  5. the Ramayana
  6. True
  7. Idgah
  8. 18
  9. Bengali
  10. Valmiki
  11. Rabindranath Tagore
  12. Lewis Carroll
  13. Thiruvalluvar
  14. True
  15. Rama
  16. 18
  17. Meghaduta
  18. Mowgli
  19. 5
  20. Alice in Wonderland
  21. False
  22. False
  23. Sanskrit
  24. True
  25. English
  26. The Jungle Book
  27. False
  28. the Panchatantra
  29. False
  30. False
  31. Tulsidas
  32. Awadhi
  33. Premchand
  34. False
  35. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  36. True
  37. Ved Vyasa
  38. English
  39. True
  40. False

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