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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 529 · 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 wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  7. 7.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  9. 9.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  12. 12.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  14. 14.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  15. 15.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  17. 17.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  18. 18.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  21. 21.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  23. 23.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  35. 35.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  38. 38.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki

Answer key

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

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