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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 623 · 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 The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  12. 12.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  16. 16.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  20. 20.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  22. 22.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  28. 28.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  29. 29.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  39. 39.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  40. 40.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. Mowgli
  3. Awadhi
  4. 18
  5. 18
  6. Lewis Carroll
  7. Thiruvalluvar
  8. Sanskrit
  9. True
  10. False
  11. Premchand
  12. True
  13. False
  14. True
  15. Krishna
  16. True
  17. True
  18. False
  19. Gitanjali
  20. the Ramayana
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. True
  23. False
  24. Hindi
  25. Valmiki
  26. False
  27. Vishnu Sharma
  28. The Jungle Book
  29. animal stories
  30. False
  31. Tulsidas
  32. Bengali
  33. False
  34. False
  35. Sanskrit
  36. Tamil
  37. True
  38. Premchand
  39. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  40. True

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