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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 858 · 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 chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  2. 2.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  9. 9.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Idgah
  10. 10.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  12. 12.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Tirukkural
  14. 14.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  17. 17.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  19. 19.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  25. 25.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  27. 27.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  29. 29.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) Godan
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  40. 40.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 18
  2. Alice in Wonderland
  3. Ved Vyasa
  4. Mowgli
  5. Bengali
  6. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  7. 18
  8. English
  9. Tirukkural
  10. Rama
  11. Sanskrit
  12. True
  13. the Mahabharata
  14. Meghaduta
  15. True
  16. Awadhi
  17. False
  18. 5
  19. True
  20. Gitanjali
  21. Sanskrit
  22. False
  23. Wings of Fire
  24. Premchand
  25. False
  26. Rudyard Kipling
  27. the Panchatantra
  28. Kalidasa
  29. the Mahabharata
  30. Hindi
  31. False
  32. True
  33. False
  34. Krishna
  35. True
  36. False
  37. Godan
  38. Valmiki
  39. Sanskrit
  40. False

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