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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 72 · 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 chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Premchand wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  10. 10.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  11. 11.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  14. 14.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  17. 17.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  21. 21.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  30. 30.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  31. 31.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  34. 34.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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