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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 693 · 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.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  5. 5.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  11. 11.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  16. 16.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  18. 18.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  19. 19.True or false: Premchand wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  28. 28.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  29. 29.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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