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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 474 · 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 Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  4. 4.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  8. 8.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  10. 10.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  12. 12.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  13. 13.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  16. 16.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  19. 19.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  21. 21.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  22. 22.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  28. 28.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  29. 29.True or false: Premchand wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  36. 36.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. False
  3. Krishna
  4. True
  5. False
  6. Mowgli
  7. Bengali
  8. False
  9. 18
  10. the Ramayana
  11. Vishnu Sharma
  12. The Jungle Book
  13. the Mahabharata
  14. Lewis Carroll
  15. Premchand
  16. True
  17. Wings of Fire
  18. Tulsidas
  19. False
  20. Premchand
  21. the Panchatantra
  22. the Mahabharata
  23. Ved Vyasa
  24. Awadhi
  25. True
  26. Rama
  27. Kalidasa
  28. 18
  29. False
  30. False
  31. False
  32. Sanskrit
  33. False
  34. False
  35. animal stories
  36. True
  37. False
  38. English
  39. False
  40. False

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