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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 570 · 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.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  3. 3.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  9. 9.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  12. 12.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  15. 15.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  17. 17.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  18. 18.True or false: Kalidasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  20. 20.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  25. 25.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  26. 26.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  29. 29.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  31. 31.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  34. 34.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  37. 37.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Wings of Fire
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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