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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 819 · 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 is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  2. 2.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  8. 8.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  12. 12.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  20. 20.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  24. 24.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  25. 25.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  31. 31.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  33. 33.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  35. 35.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Godan
  36. 36.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) Wings of Fire
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  39. 39.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

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

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