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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 60 · 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: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  5. 5.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. 7.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  13. 13.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  15. 15.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  16. 16.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  20. 20.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  22. 22.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  23. 23.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  24. 24.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  30. 30.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  34. 34.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  39. 39.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Godan

Answer key

  1. True
  2. 18
  3. 18
  4. Ved Vyasa
  5. Tirukkural
  6. Valmiki
  7. True
  8. Alice in Wonderland
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. Premchand
  11. 5
  12. Krishna
  13. False
  14. Sanskrit
  15. The Jungle Book
  16. False
  17. False
  18. Lewis Carroll
  19. Meghaduta
  20. False
  21. animal stories
  22. Godan
  23. Gitanjali
  24. False
  25. English
  26. English
  27. False
  28. False
  29. Mowgli
  30. True
  31. False
  32. Awadhi
  33. Rabindranath Tagore
  34. False
  35. Tulsidas
  36. False
  37. Tamil
  38. Bengali
  39. False
  40. the Panchatantra

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