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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 644 · 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.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  5. 5.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  10. 10.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  13. 13.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  17. 17.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) maps
  20. 20.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  27. 27.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Idgah
  28. 28.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  35. 35.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  37. 37.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar

Answer key

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

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