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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 415 · 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.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  11. 11.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  12. 12.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  13. 13.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Karna
  14. 14.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  16. 16.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  18. 18.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  20. 20.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  23. 23.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  30. 30.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  36. 36.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  39. 39.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  40. 40.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

  1. False
  2. 18
  3. the Mahabharata
  4. Tamil
  5. 5
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. Premchand
  8. English
  9. True
  10. Premchand
  11. Gitanjali
  12. The Jungle Book
  13. Rama
  14. False
  15. Bengali
  16. Idgah
  17. Meghaduta
  18. True
  19. Mowgli
  20. False
  21. True
  22. Sanskrit
  23. Ramcharitmanas
  24. English
  25. Hindi
  26. Sanskrit
  27. False
  28. True
  29. Krishna
  30. the Panchatantra
  31. False
  32. True
  33. True
  34. False
  35. animal stories
  36. False
  37. False
  38. Vishnu Sharma
  39. Alice in Wonderland
  40. Abhijnanashakuntalam

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