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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 104 · 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: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  3. 3.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  7. 7.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  9. 9.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  13. 13.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Alice in Wonderland
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling
  16. 16.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  17. 17.True or false: Premchand wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  20. 20.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  25. 25.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  28. 28.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  31. 31.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  34. 34.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  35. 35.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  38. 38.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Ved Vyasa
  3. False
  4. 18
  5. the Mahabharata
  6. Sanskrit
  7. False
  8. Rudyard Kipling
  9. False
  10. False
  11. True
  12. Tulsidas
  13. True
  14. Ramcharitmanas
  15. Lewis Carroll
  16. Mowgli
  17. False
  18. Bengali
  19. animal stories
  20. False
  21. The Jungle Book
  22. the Mahabharata
  23. False
  24. 18
  25. False
  26. True
  27. Premchand
  28. False
  29. 5
  30. Premchand
  31. Meghaduta
  32. Vishnu Sharma
  33. Kalidasa
  34. Tirukkural
  35. Alice in Wonderland
  36. Tamil
  37. English
  38. True
  39. True
  40. True

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