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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 143 · 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.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  3. 3.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  5. 5.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  6. 6.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Wings of Fire (d) Ramcharitmanas
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  9. 9.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  12. 12.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  17. 17.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  18. 18.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  20. 20.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  22. 22.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  24. 24.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Hindi
  27. 27.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  31. 31.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  32. 32.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. animal stories
  2. Tulsidas
  3. the Panchatantra
  4. Lewis Carroll
  5. Alice in Wonderland
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. Sanskrit
  8. Thiruvalluvar
  9. 5
  10. 18
  11. Rama
  12. False
  13. False
  14. Ved Vyasa
  15. Awadhi
  16. Valmiki
  17. 18
  18. True
  19. English
  20. False
  21. Kalidasa
  22. True
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. False
  25. False
  26. English
  27. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  28. False
  29. Mowgli
  30. Hindi
  31. Wings of Fire
  32. False
  33. Bengali
  34. Premchand
  35. False
  36. False
  37. False
  38. False
  39. True
  40. True

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