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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 894 · 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.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  5. 5.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  13. 13.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  17. 17.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  23. 23.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  24. 24.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) Meghaduta
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  28. 28.True or false: Premchand wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  32. 32.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  38. 38.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book

Answer key

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

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