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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 630 · 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 chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  4. 4.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  5. 5.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  10. 10.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  19. 19.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  21. 21.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  27. 27.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  40. 40.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  3. Rama
  4. The Jungle Book
  5. False
  6. False
  7. False
  8. Idgah
  9. Sanskrit
  10. Tirukkural
  11. English
  12. the Panchatantra
  13. Ved Vyasa
  14. Mowgli
  15. Bengali
  16. True
  17. Krishna
  18. Kalidasa
  19. False
  20. 18
  21. 5
  22. Lewis Carroll
  23. Sanskrit
  24. Hindi
  25. Sanskrit
  26. Gitanjali
  27. True
  28. Awadhi
  29. True
  30. True
  31. True
  32. False
  33. True
  34. True
  35. False
  36. False
  37. False
  38. Wings of Fire
  39. Rudyard Kipling
  40. animal stories

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