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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 614 · 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.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  3. 3.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  5. 5.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Meghaduta
  10. 10.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  14. 14.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  23. 23.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  25. 25.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  30. 30.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  32. 32.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  33. 33.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi

Answer key

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

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