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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 117 · 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: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  8. 8.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  11. 11.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  17. 17.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  20. 20.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  21. 21.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  24. 24.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  28. 28.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  29. 29.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  30. 30.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  36. 36.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  40. 40.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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