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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 55 · 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.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Meghaduta
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  7. 7.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  9. 9.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  12. 12.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  18. 18.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  21. 21.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  33. 33.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  34. 34.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. True
  2. 18
  3. Alice in Wonderland
  4. Mowgli
  5. Rama
  6. animal stories
  7. The Jungle Book
  8. English
  9. False
  10. the Mahabharata
  11. the Panchatantra
  12. False
  13. 5
  14. the Mahabharata
  15. Wings of Fire
  16. Rabindranath Tagore
  17. English
  18. True
  19. True
  20. Premchand
  21. False
  22. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  23. Krishna
  24. Lewis Carroll
  25. Bengali
  26. Vishnu Sharma
  27. English
  28. False
  29. False
  30. 18
  31. False
  32. Thiruvalluvar
  33. Tirukkural
  34. False
  35. Premchand
  36. True
  37. False
  38. True
  39. Godan
  40. False

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