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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 109 · 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: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  4. 4.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) war songs
  6. 6.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  13. 13.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  19. 19.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  22. 22.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  25. 25.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) The Jungle Book
  26. 26.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  27. 27.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  37. 37.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  39. 39.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Godan
  3. Ved Vyasa
  4. False
  5. animal stories
  6. False
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. English
  10. 5
  11. False
  12. Ramcharitmanas
  13. True
  14. Rama
  15. 18
  16. Gitanjali
  17. Vishnu Sharma
  18. Awadhi
  19. False
  20. True
  21. Premchand
  22. False
  23. the Ramayana
  24. Valmiki
  25. The Jungle Book
  26. Tirukkural
  27. True
  28. Sanskrit
  29. True
  30. False
  31. False
  32. False
  33. False
  34. 18
  35. Tulsidas
  36. Kalidasa
  37. True
  38. Krishna
  39. True
  40. Lewis Carroll

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