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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 480 · 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.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  11. 11.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  13. 13.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  15. 15.True or false: Premchand wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  23. 23.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  25. 25.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  27. 27.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  28. 28.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  33. 33.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  38. 38.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi

Answer key

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

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