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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 136 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  2. 2.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  3. 3.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  9. 9.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  12. 12.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  22. 22.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  25. 25.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  28. 28.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  30. 30.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  32. 32.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  38. 38.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa

Answer key

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

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