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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 898 · 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: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  4. 4.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  10. 10.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  11. 11.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  13. 13.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  14. 14.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  15. 15.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  18. 18.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  22. 22.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  25. 25.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  28. 28.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  35. 35.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi

Answer key

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

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