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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 712 · 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) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  2. 2.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  4. 4.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) maps
  9. 9.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  10. 10.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  13. 13.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  15. 15.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  17. 17.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  18. 18.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  23. 23.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  24. 24.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  27. 27.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  31. 31.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll

Answer key

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

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