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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 857 · 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.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  8. 8.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  10. 10.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  17. 17.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  20. 20.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) war songs
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  23. 23.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  24. 24.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  30. 30.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. False
  3. True
  4. Premchand
  5. 18
  6. 5
  7. Hindi
  8. Krishna
  9. the Mahabharata
  10. False
  11. False
  12. Tirukkural
  13. True
  14. Mowgli
  15. Ved Vyasa
  16. Premchand
  17. False
  18. the Ramayana
  19. Sanskrit
  20. animal stories
  21. English
  22. Rabindranath Tagore
  23. Godan
  24. True
  25. False
  26. True
  27. English
  28. Kalidasa
  29. Tulsidas
  30. False
  31. Vishnu Sharma
  32. True
  33. the Mahabharata
  34. English
  35. False
  36. False
  37. the Panchatantra
  38. Sanskrit
  39. Sanskrit
  40. Lewis Carroll

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