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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 826 · 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: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  5. 5.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  7. 7.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  10. 10.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  11. 11.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  13. 13.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  14. 14.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  15. 15.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  16. 16.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  19. 19.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  21. 21.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  23. 23.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  29. 29.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  30. 30.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  36. 36.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. True
  3. Sanskrit
  4. English
  5. True
  6. Gitanjali
  7. True
  8. Ved Vyasa
  9. Hindi
  10. Krishna
  11. True
  12. Sanskrit
  13. Wings of Fire
  14. 18
  15. Tirukkural
  16. False
  17. False
  18. Alice in Wonderland
  19. True
  20. 5
  21. True
  22. the Mahabharata
  23. True
  24. False
  25. False
  26. False
  27. the Panchatantra
  28. animal stories
  29. Mowgli
  30. False
  31. False
  32. True
  33. True
  34. False
  35. Sanskrit
  36. False
  37. Premchand
  38. English
  39. Bengali
  40. Tulsidas

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