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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 166 · 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 books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  6. 6.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  9. 9.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  14. 14.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  16. 16.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  24. 24.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Lewis Carroll
  3. the Panchatantra
  4. Mowgli
  5. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  6. True
  7. Tirukkural
  8. Awadhi
  9. Ramcharitmanas
  10. 5
  11. 18
  12. True
  13. Alice in Wonderland
  14. True
  15. Meghaduta
  16. True
  17. False
  18. the Mahabharata
  19. Idgah
  20. False
  21. animal stories
  22. Kalidasa
  23. Hindi
  24. Wings of Fire
  25. Tamil
  26. the Mahabharata
  27. True
  28. Rama
  29. False
  30. English
  31. False
  32. Godan
  33. Premchand
  34. Krishna
  35. Kalidasa
  36. Sanskrit
  37. Valmiki
  38. Sanskrit
  39. False
  40. Gitanjali

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