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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 657 · 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.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  4. 4.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  6. 6.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  12. 12.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  14. 14.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  19. 19.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  20. 20.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  23. 23.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  25. 25.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  27. 27.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  33. 33.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  40. 40.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) war songs

Answer key

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

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