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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 517 · 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 books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  2. 2.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  10. 10.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  13. 13.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) English
  18. 18.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  22. 22.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  24. 24.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  26. 26.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  27. 27.True or false: Premchand wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  29. 29.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  33. 33.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  37. 37.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  38. 38.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling

Answer key

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

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