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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 257 · 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.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  6. 6.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  10. 10.True or false: Kalidasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  12. 12.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  15. 15.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  19. 19.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  21. 21.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  23. 23.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  26. 26.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  27. 27.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  28. 28.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  32. 32.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  40. 40.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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