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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 170 · 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 Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  2. 2.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  5. 5.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  6. 6.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Awadhi
  8. 8.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  16. 16.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Valmiki
  20. 20.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  21. 21.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  22. 22.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  24. 24.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  25. 25.True or false: Premchand wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  29. 29.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  30. 30.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  34. 34.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Ved Vyasa
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  38. 38.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. English
  2. True
  3. True
  4. animal stories
  5. Mowgli
  6. False
  7. English
  8. the Ramayana
  9. True
  10. False
  11. True
  12. the Panchatantra
  13. False
  14. Sanskrit
  15. Sanskrit
  16. False
  17. Premchand
  18. Kalidasa
  19. Vishnu Sharma
  20. the Mahabharata
  21. 18
  22. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  23. Tulsidas
  24. Rama
  25. False
  26. False
  27. True
  28. Krishna
  29. 18
  30. 5
  31. Tamil
  32. Valmiki
  33. Hindi
  34. False
  35. Ved Vyasa
  36. Thiruvalluvar
  37. Awadhi
  38. False
  39. The Jungle Book
  40. True

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