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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 171 · 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: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  7. 7.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  9. 9.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  14. 14.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  19. 19.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  20. 20.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  22. 22.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  23. 23.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  25. 25.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  27. 27.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  30. 30.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  31. 31.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  33. 33.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  39. 39.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Krishna
  3. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  4. Sanskrit
  5. 5
  6. Sanskrit
  7. False
  8. English
  9. The Jungle Book
  10. Sanskrit
  11. Mowgli
  12. Bengali
  13. the Mahabharata
  14. False
  15. False
  16. True
  17. False
  18. Idgah
  19. Ramcharitmanas
  20. True
  21. Vishnu Sharma
  22. 18
  23. False
  24. Valmiki
  25. False
  26. Alice in Wonderland
  27. False
  28. True
  29. Rama
  30. animal stories
  31. Meghaduta
  32. Premchand
  33. False
  34. False
  35. 18
  36. True
  37. True
  38. Ved Vyasa
  39. Tirukkural
  40. False

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