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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 612 · 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: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  8. 8.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) the Ramayana
  10. 10.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  12. 12.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  13. 13.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  17. 17.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  18. 18.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  20. 20.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  22. 22.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  30. 30.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  37. 37.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Mowgli
  3. 5
  4. True
  5. 18
  6. True
  7. Sanskrit
  8. True
  9. Idgah
  10. Krishna
  11. Premchand
  12. Tirukkural
  13. True
  14. animal stories
  15. 18
  16. Vishnu Sharma
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. Wings of Fire
  19. Kalidasa
  20. the Mahabharata
  21. The Jungle Book
  22. True
  23. True
  24. True
  25. Alice in Wonderland
  26. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. Hindi
  28. Thiruvalluvar
  29. Ved Vyasa
  30. False
  31. False
  32. Rama
  33. False
  34. Sanskrit
  35. Lewis Carroll
  36. Godan
  37. the Ramayana
  38. False
  39. Ramcharitmanas
  40. Valmiki

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