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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 125 · 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 Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Premchand (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  3. 3.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  7. 7.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Tirukkural
  8. 8.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  9. 9.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  13. 13.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  21. 21.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  22. 22.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Idgah (d) Alice in Wonderland
  28. 28.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  29. 29.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  35. 35.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Hindi
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima

Answer key

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

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