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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 129 · 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: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Idgah (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Panchatantra (d) Godan
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) The Jungle Book
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  7. 7.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  10. 10.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  13. 13.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Premchand
  17. 17.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Valmiki (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  20. 20.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  22. 22.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  25. 25.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  29. 29.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) the Panchatantra
  35. 35.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  36. 36.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Idgah (d) Wings of Fire
  38. 38.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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