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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 64 · 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 books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  2. 2.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  3. 3.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  6. 6.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  10. 10.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  12. 12.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  19. 19.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  21. 21.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  22. 22.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  23. 23.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  25. 25.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  27. 27.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  30. 30.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Bengali
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  39. 39.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar

Answer key

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

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