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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 840 · 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.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  2. 2.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) maps
  6. 6.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Wings of Fire
  8. 8.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  9. 9.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  14. 14.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  16. 16.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  20. 20.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  22. 22.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  23. 23.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  25. 25.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  27. 27.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  28. 28.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  29. 29.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  32. 32.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  34. 34.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar

Answer key

  1. the Mahabharata
  2. Tirukkural
  3. 18
  4. the Ramayana
  5. animal stories
  6. False
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. 18
  9. False
  10. True
  11. Bengali
  12. Krishna
  13. Sanskrit
  14. True
  15. Awadhi
  16. True
  17. 5
  18. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  19. English
  20. True
  21. Hindi
  22. Idgah
  23. False
  24. Tulsidas
  25. True
  26. the Panchatantra
  27. Wings of Fire
  28. Alice in Wonderland
  29. True
  30. Mowgli
  31. Valmiki
  32. Ramcharitmanas
  33. Sanskrit
  34. True
  35. Sanskrit
  36. False
  37. True
  38. False
  39. False
  40. Lewis Carroll

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