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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 387 · 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.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  4. 4.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  6. 6.True or false: Premchand wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  13. 13.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  15. 15.True or false: Valmiki wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  17. 17.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  19. 19.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  21. 21.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  25. 25.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  27. 27.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana

Answer key

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

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