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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 992 · 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.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  4. 4.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  5. 5.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  12. 12.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  13. 13.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  17. 17.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  18. 18.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  21. 21.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  22. 22.True or false: Valmiki wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  24. 24.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  28. 28.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  39. 39.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. the Ramayana
  3. Premchand
  4. the Panchatantra
  5. True
  6. 18
  7. Kalidasa
  8. Sanskrit
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. Tamil
  11. Mowgli
  12. the Mahabharata
  13. False
  14. False
  15. Alice in Wonderland
  16. Sanskrit
  17. Idgah
  18. False
  19. English
  20. Rabindranath Tagore
  21. The Jungle Book
  22. False
  23. Tirukkural
  24. Gitanjali
  25. Valmiki
  26. Rudyard Kipling
  27. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  28. False
  29. True
  30. False
  31. False
  32. True
  33. True
  34. False
  35. Premchand
  36. False
  37. False
  38. 18
  39. False
  40. Abhijnanashakuntalam

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