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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 107 · 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 Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) The Jungle Book
  2. 2.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  4. 4.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  6. 6.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  8. 8.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  10. 10.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. 12.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  17. 17.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  19. 19.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  23. 23.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  25. 25.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  26. 26.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  27. 27.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  29. 29.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  30. 30.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  34. 34.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  35. 35.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) The Jungle Book
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  39. 39.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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