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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 205 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  3. 3.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Ramayana
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  13. 13.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  18. 18.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  19. 19.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  21. 21.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  26. 26.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  28. 28.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  34. 34.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  36. 36.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali

Answer key

  1. animal stories
  2. Rama
  3. True
  4. False
  5. 18
  6. True
  7. True
  8. Wings of Fire
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. 5
  11. Mowgli
  12. Awadhi
  13. Alice in Wonderland
  14. Sanskrit
  15. True
  16. Godan
  17. Rabindranath Tagore
  18. the Ramayana
  19. False
  20. Bengali
  21. True
  22. True
  23. False
  24. False
  25. Premchand
  26. False
  27. Vishnu Sharma
  28. False
  29. Meghaduta
  30. Kalidasa
  31. True
  32. 18
  33. Sanskrit
  34. False
  35. the Mahabharata
  36. False
  37. True
  38. False
  39. False
  40. English

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