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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 839 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  4. 4.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  5. 5.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  7. 7.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  11. 11.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  12. 12.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  21. 21.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  22. 22.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  30. 30.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Wings of Fire (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  32. 32.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  34. 34.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. animal stories
  3. Rudyard Kipling
  4. Tirukkural
  5. False
  6. Rama
  7. Ramcharitmanas
  8. Hindi
  9. Mowgli
  10. Kalidasa
  11. Meghaduta
  12. False
  13. True
  14. 5
  15. False
  16. False
  17. Sanskrit
  18. Bengali
  19. Sanskrit
  20. English
  21. Gitanjali
  22. True
  23. Alice in Wonderland
  24. the Mahabharata
  25. True
  26. False
  27. True
  28. False
  29. Sanskrit
  30. 18
  31. Idgah
  32. False
  33. English
  34. True
  35. True
  36. True
  37. Thiruvalluvar
  38. False
  39. Krishna
  40. True

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