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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 759 · 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: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  3. 3.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  6. 6.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  10. 10.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) Idgah
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  14. 14.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) war songs
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  17. 17.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  22. 22.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  24. 24.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  26. 26.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  30. 30.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  32. 32.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  34. 34.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  35. 35.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  36. 36.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Rama
  3. False
  4. English
  5. Sanskrit
  6. True
  7. True
  8. True
  9. English
  10. the Mahabharata
  11. 18
  12. Tirukkural
  13. Kalidasa
  14. animal stories
  15. English
  16. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  17. True
  18. True
  19. Hindi
  20. Rudyard Kipling
  21. Wings of Fire
  22. Godan
  23. 5
  24. Mowgli
  25. Ved Vyasa
  26. False
  27. Vishnu Sharma
  28. Sanskrit
  29. Sanskrit
  30. True
  31. Idgah
  32. False
  33. Awadhi
  34. Gitanjali
  35. 18
  36. Krishna
  37. True
  38. True
  39. Sanskrit
  40. Premchand

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