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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 756 · 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 books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) The Jungle Book
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  5. 5.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  7. 7.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  8. 8.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  11. 11.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  12. 12.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  14. 14.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  16. 16.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  19. 19.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  26. 26.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  27. 27.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  30. 30.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  32. 32.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  35. 35.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  38. 38.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa

Answer key

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

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