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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 695 · 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 wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  5. 5.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  7. 7.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  12. 12.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Alice in Wonderland
  13. 13.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  15. 15.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  16. 16.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  17. 17.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  18. 18.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  23. 23.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  24. 24.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  28. 28.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  31. 31.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  36. 36.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  40. 40.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories

Answer key

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

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