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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 842 · 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 Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) maps (d) war songs
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  8. 8.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  12. 12.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  15. 15.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  22. 22.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  24. 24.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  25. 25.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  28. 28.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  29. 29.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  32. 32.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  34. 34.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  37. 37.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland

Answer key

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

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