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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 102 · 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.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  14. 14.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  16. 16.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  18. 18.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  24. 24.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  25. 25.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  28. 28.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  30. 30.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. True
  3. Rama
  4. Krishna
  5. 18
  6. False
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. The Jungle Book
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. the Panchatantra
  11. Rudyard Kipling
  12. Meghaduta
  13. Ved Vyasa
  14. False
  15. animal stories
  16. False
  17. Kalidasa
  18. False
  19. 18
  20. False
  21. Sanskrit
  22. Kalidasa
  23. English
  24. the Ramayana
  25. Mowgli
  26. Premchand
  27. Vishnu Sharma
  28. True
  29. Gitanjali
  30. False
  31. True
  32. True
  33. True
  34. False
  35. Lewis Carroll
  36. False
  37. False
  38. False
  39. False
  40. False

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