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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 855 · 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.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  3. 3.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Karna
  5. 5.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  11. 11.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  12. 12.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  14. 14.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  17. 17.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  23. 23.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  26. 26.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  28. 28.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  31. 31.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  32. 32.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  34. 34.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  36. 36.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

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

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