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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 982 · 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 wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  10. 10.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  11. 11.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  12. 12.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  13. 13.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  15. 15.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  17. 17.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  18. 18.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  19. 19.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  21. 21.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  22. 22.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  24. 24.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  25. 25.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  28. 28.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  34. 34.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  37. 37.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 39.True or false: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Ved Vyasa
  2. Rama
  3. the Mahabharata
  4. 18
  5. the Mahabharata
  6. 18
  7. True
  8. Premchand
  9. Awadhi
  10. Krishna
  11. animal stories
  12. Gitanjali
  13. False
  14. Kalidasa
  15. False
  16. Tulsidas
  17. Alice in Wonderland
  18. the Ramayana
  19. True
  20. Wings of Fire
  21. The Jungle Book
  22. False
  23. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  24. Godan
  25. 5
  26. Vishnu Sharma
  27. Tamil
  28. True
  29. False
  30. False
  31. Sanskrit
  32. the Panchatantra
  33. Rudyard Kipling
  34. False
  35. English
  36. Idgah
  37. False
  38. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. False
  40. False

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