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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 208 · 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.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  6. 6.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  9. 9.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  15. 15.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  18. 18.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  21. 21.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  25. 25.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  26. 26.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  27. 27.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  35. 35.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  40. 40.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural

Answer key

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

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