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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 127 · 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 Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  3. 3.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  4. 4.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) The Jungle Book
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  6. 6.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  8. 8.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  16. 16.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  21. 21.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  22. 22.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  24. 24.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  26. 26.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) Meghaduta
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  28. 28.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  32. 32.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  35. 35.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Idgah (c) the Ramayana (d) Tirukkural
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  38. 38.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi

Answer key

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

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