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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 945 · 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 Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  3. 3.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  8. 8.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  13. 13.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  18. 18.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  20. 20.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  22. 22.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  24. 24.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  25. 25.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  29. 29.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  31. 31.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  34. 34.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  38. 38.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 39.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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