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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 976 · 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.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  2. 2.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  3. 3.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  10. 10.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  13. 13.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Godan
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  17. 17.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  19. 19.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  21. 21.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  22. 22.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (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 Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  25. 25.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  28. 28.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Meghaduta (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Idgah
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  37. 37.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  38. 38.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi

Answer key

  1. Rama
  2. Krishna
  3. False
  4. 18
  5. False
  6. True
  7. the Ramayana
  8. True
  9. Premchand
  10. animal stories
  11. Sanskrit
  12. Valmiki
  13. The Jungle Book
  14. False
  15. False
  16. Alice in Wonderland
  17. True
  18. 18
  19. Ramcharitmanas
  20. Hindi
  21. Mowgli
  22. True
  23. False
  24. the Mahabharata
  25. the Panchatantra
  26. Rudyard Kipling
  27. Sanskrit
  28. False
  29. False
  30. Meghaduta
  31. True
  32. English
  33. Sanskrit
  34. the Mahabharata
  35. False
  36. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  37. 5
  38. False
  39. False
  40. English

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