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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 162 · 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: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) recipes
  3. 3.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  4. 4.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  5. 5.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  6. 6.True or false: Tulsidas wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. 12.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  15. 15.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  21. 21.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  24. 24.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Kalidasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  29. 29.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  32. 32.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  33. 33.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  36. 36.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  37. 37.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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