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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 115 · 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 Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  6. 6.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  9. 9.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  13. 13.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  16. 16.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  19. 19.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  24. 24.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) The Jungle Book (d) Meghaduta
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  26. 26.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  29. 29.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Ved Vyasa
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Krishna
  3. Lewis Carroll
  4. the Mahabharata
  5. animal stories
  6. the Ramayana
  7. Tulsidas
  8. Sanskrit
  9. True
  10. True
  11. Hindi
  12. Rama
  13. 18
  14. 5
  15. Premchand
  16. True
  17. Mowgli
  18. Valmiki
  19. Tirukkural
  20. Rudyard Kipling
  21. True
  22. True
  23. 18
  24. The Jungle Book
  25. Rabindranath Tagore
  26. True
  27. the Panchatantra
  28. Bengali
  29. False
  30. False
  31. False
  32. English
  33. Awadhi
  34. Thiruvalluvar
  35. False
  36. True
  37. True
  38. True
  39. False
  40. True

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