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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 727 · 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) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  7. 7.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  10. 10.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  13. 13.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  22. 22.True or false: Premchand wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  24. 24.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  26. 26.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) maps (d) war songs
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  29. 29.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

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

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