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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 457 · 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.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  12. 12.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  13. 13.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  16. 16.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  19. 19.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  21. 21.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  24. 24.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  28. 28.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  38. 38.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma

Answer key

  1. Krishna
  2. 18
  3. The Jungle Book
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. Rama
  6. 5
  7. the Ramayana
  8. 18
  9. Bengali
  10. False
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. Wings of Fire
  13. the Panchatantra
  14. English
  15. English
  16. True
  17. True
  18. Ved Vyasa
  19. True
  20. Sanskrit
  21. Meghaduta
  22. Premchand
  23. Valmiki
  24. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  25. True
  26. Kalidasa
  27. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  28. True
  29. False
  30. False
  31. False
  32. Rudyard Kipling
  33. False
  34. False
  35. False
  36. False
  37. Mowgli
  38. Alice in Wonderland
  39. True
  40. Tulsidas

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