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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 581 · 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: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  5. 5.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Premchand
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  9. 9.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  17. 17.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  23. 23.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  26. 26.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  30. 30.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  31. 31.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  34. 34.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  35. 35.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  37. 37.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

  1. False
  2. True
  3. Mowgli
  4. English
  5. True
  6. 18
  7. Ved Vyasa
  8. Kalidasa
  9. False
  10. False
  11. False
  12. True
  13. Sanskrit
  14. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  15. Sanskrit
  16. Tamil
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. Hindi
  19. 5
  20. False
  21. the Ramayana
  22. Sanskrit
  23. Krishna
  24. Tulsidas
  25. Gitanjali
  26. True
  27. False
  28. the Panchatantra
  29. Valmiki
  30. Tirukkural
  31. The Jungle Book
  32. True
  33. Bengali
  34. 18
  35. False
  36. Thiruvalluvar
  37. True
  38. Rama
  39. English
  40. the Mahabharata

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