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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 853 · 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 Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  4. 4.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  7. 7.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  12. 12.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  14. 14.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  16. 16.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  23. 23.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  27. 27.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  30. 30.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  32. 32.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  40. 40.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. False
  3. Thiruvalluvar
  4. The Jungle Book
  5. Tulsidas
  6. Sanskrit
  7. False
  8. English
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. 18
  11. Mowgli
  12. True
  13. Ved Vyasa
  14. True
  15. Godan
  16. the Mahabharata
  17. English
  18. the Panchatantra
  19. False
  20. Bengali
  21. Lewis Carroll
  22. English
  23. False
  24. False
  25. True
  26. Rama
  27. True
  28. True
  29. Wings of Fire
  30. Tirukkural
  31. Hindi
  32. False
  33. True
  34. Sanskrit
  35. False
  36. True
  37. Krishna
  38. True
  39. Kalidasa
  40. True

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