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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 73 · 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.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  14. 14.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  16. 16.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Premchand wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  23. 23.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  24. 24.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  26. 26.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  27. 27.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  29. 29.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  38. 38.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. True
  3. True
  4. True
  5. the Mahabharata
  6. Hindi
  7. Thiruvalluvar
  8. Sanskrit
  9. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. 18
  11. Bengali
  12. the Mahabharata
  13. 5
  14. False
  15. Ramcharitmanas
  16. False
  17. True
  18. False
  19. the Ramayana
  20. Kalidasa
  21. Rudyard Kipling
  22. Awadhi
  23. Wings of Fire
  24. False
  25. Kalidasa
  26. the Panchatantra
  27. True
  28. Krishna
  29. True
  30. Gitanjali
  31. False
  32. The Jungle Book
  33. False
  34. animal stories
  35. False
  36. Mowgli
  37. Valmiki
  38. True
  39. English
  40. True

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