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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 600 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  9. 9.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  10. 10.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  11. 11.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Premchand wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  14. 14.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  24. 24.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  26. 26.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  28. 28.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  32. 32.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  37. 37.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  38. 38.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  39. 39.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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