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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 138 · 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.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Wings of Fire
  2. 2.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  6. 6.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  12. 12.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  16. 16.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Karna
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  20. 20.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  23. 23.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  26. 26.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  27. 27.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  28. 28.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  34. 34.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Godan
  2. 18
  3. English
  4. the Panchatantra
  5. Mowgli
  6. False
  7. Sanskrit
  8. False
  9. the Ramayana
  10. 5
  11. Sanskrit
  12. False
  13. True
  14. False
  15. Sanskrit
  16. Rama
  17. Premchand
  18. Kalidasa
  19. Ved Vyasa
  20. Tirukkural
  21. True
  22. Lewis Carroll
  23. False
  24. 18
  25. Thiruvalluvar
  26. animal stories
  27. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  28. the Mahabharata
  29. Bengali
  30. Hindi
  31. False
  32. False
  33. Premchand
  34. True
  35. True
  36. False
  37. the Mahabharata
  38. True
  39. True
  40. True

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