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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 535 · 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: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  9. 9.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  14. 14.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  15. 15.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  18. 18.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  19. 19.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  20. 20.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  25. 25.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  28. 28.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  30. 30.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  32. 32.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  36. 36.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  37. 37.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  39. 39.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil

Answer key

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

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