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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 228 · 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.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  6. 6.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  12. 12.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  15. 15.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  22. 22.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  30. 30.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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