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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 991 · 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.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Godan
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  4. 4.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  5. 5.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  7. 7.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  8. 8.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  13. 13.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) maps (d) war songs
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  22. 22.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Valmiki wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  27. 27.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  30. 30.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  31. 31.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  33. 33.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  36. 36.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  38. 38.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  39. 39.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit

Answer key

  1. the Ramayana
  2. 5
  3. Bengali
  4. Ramcharitmanas
  5. Krishna
  6. Awadhi
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. True
  9. False
  10. English
  11. Lewis Carroll
  12. Vishnu Sharma
  13. Mowgli
  14. Valmiki
  15. Sanskrit
  16. animal stories
  17. Hindi
  18. 18
  19. Sanskrit
  20. Premchand
  21. English
  22. True
  23. False
  24. True
  25. Rama
  26. English
  27. False
  28. Wings of Fire
  29. Kalidasa
  30. the Mahabharata
  31. True
  32. the Panchatantra
  33. False
  34. Alice in Wonderland
  35. Premchand
  36. False
  37. Ved Vyasa
  38. 18
  39. True
  40. Tamil

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