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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 753 · 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.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  3. 3.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  5. 5.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  6. 6.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) Idgah
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  15. 15.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) recipes (d) war songs
  17. 17.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  20. 20.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  21. 21.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  23. 23.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  33. 33.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Karna
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  36. 36.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  40. 40.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta

Answer key

  1. False
  2. 18
  3. False
  4. Idgah
  5. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. 5
  8. False
  9. True
  10. the Ramayana
  11. Premchand
  12. 18
  13. English
  14. Hindi
  15. Mowgli
  16. animal stories
  17. False
  18. Sanskrit
  19. Kalidasa
  20. Gitanjali
  21. True
  22. Krishna
  23. Godan
  24. False
  25. True
  26. Alice in Wonderland
  27. True
  28. False
  29. Sanskrit
  30. False
  31. True
  32. Awadhi
  33. True
  34. Rama
  35. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  36. False
  37. False
  38. False
  39. The Jungle Book
  40. the Mahabharata

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