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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 602 · 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) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  2. 2.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  3. 3.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  13. 13.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  17. 17.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  20. 20.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  24. 24.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  26. 26.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  28. 28.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  34. 34.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  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. Krishna
  3. Tirukkural
  4. Sanskrit
  5. Sanskrit
  6. English
  7. Valmiki
  8. Sanskrit
  9. 5
  10. the Panchatantra
  11. Ved Vyasa
  12. Thiruvalluvar
  13. 18
  14. Awadhi
  15. False
  16. Sanskrit
  17. Idgah
  18. the Mahabharata
  19. Tamil
  20. False
  21. False
  22. Alice in Wonderland
  23. Premchand
  24. False
  25. Kalidasa
  26. True
  27. Lewis Carroll
  28. True
  29. False
  30. True
  31. English
  32. Godan
  33. Hindi
  34. False
  35. animal stories
  36. False
  37. True
  38. True
  39. False
  40. True

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