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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 380 · 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 chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  3. 3.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  8. 8.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  17. 17.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  19. 19.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  21. 21.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  23. 23.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  25. 25.True or false: Premchand wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  30. 30.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  33. 33.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  36. 36.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  40. 40.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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