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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 227 · 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 Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  7. 7.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  11. 11.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  15. 15.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  17. 17.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  20. 20.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  23. 23.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  25. 25.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  28. 28.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  31. 31.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  32. 32.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  35. 35.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  36. 36.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. False
  3. The Jungle Book
  4. Kalidasa
  5. Sanskrit
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. True
  8. Mowgli
  9. Rudyard Kipling
  10. Sanskrit
  11. False
  12. False
  13. False
  14. the Panchatantra
  15. True
  16. Valmiki
  17. True
  18. True
  19. animal stories
  20. True
  21. Premchand
  22. 18
  23. False
  24. English
  25. Rama
  26. Premchand
  27. Rabindranath Tagore
  28. True
  29. Krishna
  30. Thiruvalluvar
  31. 18
  32. False
  33. True
  34. Wings of Fire
  35. Alice in Wonderland
  36. Tirukkural
  37. Tamil
  38. False
  39. False
  40. Sanskrit

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