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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 243 · 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.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  3. 3.True or false: Premchand wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  6. 6.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  9. 9.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  11. 11.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  20. 20.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  21. 21.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  24. 24.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  26. 26.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  27. 27.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  29. 29.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  34. 34.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  37. 37.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. Mowgli
  3. False
  4. Kalidasa
  5. Vishnu Sharma
  6. False
  7. Sanskrit
  8. Lewis Carroll
  9. Ramcharitmanas
  10. the Panchatantra
  11. True
  12. True
  13. 18
  14. False
  15. Bengali
  16. False
  17. True
  18. Sanskrit
  19. Alice in Wonderland
  20. Krishna
  21. False
  22. False
  23. English
  24. 18
  25. Hindi
  26. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  27. the Mahabharata
  28. Rabindranath Tagore
  29. Rama
  30. English
  31. Sanskrit
  32. True
  33. Premchand
  34. True
  35. Sanskrit
  36. Kalidasa
  37. True
  38. True
  39. the Ramayana
  40. Thiruvalluvar

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