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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 114 · 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.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  3. 3.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  6. 6.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  8. 8.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  9. 9.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  11. 11.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  14. 14.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  15. 15.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  18. 18.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  20. 20.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  26. 26.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Lewis Carroll
  34. 34.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  35. 35.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  36. 36.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer key

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

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