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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 103 · 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 Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  6. 6.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  16. 16.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  21. 21.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  23. 23.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  24. 24.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) recipes
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  26. 26.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  31. 31.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  33. 33.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  35. 35.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  36. 36.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  40. 40.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Tirukkural
  3. Premchand
  4. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. the Mahabharata
  6. 18
  7. 18
  8. Sanskrit
  9. True
  10. True
  11. False
  12. Bengali
  13. Awadhi
  14. Rama
  15. Vishnu Sharma
  16. False
  17. True
  18. Wings of Fire
  19. Sanskrit
  20. Rabindranath Tagore
  21. True
  22. Kalidasa
  23. Alice in Wonderland
  24. animal stories
  25. Gitanjali
  26. True
  27. False
  28. English
  29. the Ramayana
  30. Tamil
  31. False
  32. Hindi
  33. the Mahabharata
  34. Sanskrit
  35. the Panchatantra
  36. True
  37. False
  38. True
  39. English
  40. 5

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