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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 212 · 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.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  5. 5.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  6. 6.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  8. 8.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) English
  11. 11.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  13. 13.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Valmiki (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Rudyard Kipling
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  16. 16.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  17. 17.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Wings of Fire
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Premchand (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  23. 23.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  24. 24.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  26. 26.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  27. 27.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  29. 29.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  35. 35.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  38. 38.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  39. 39.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. 5
  2. Tirukkural
  3. 18
  4. Bengali
  5. the Ramayana
  6. True
  7. Wings of Fire
  8. True
  9. Kalidasa
  10. Tamil
  11. True
  12. Alice in Wonderland
  13. Mowgli
  14. Rudyard Kipling
  15. Sanskrit
  16. 18
  17. True
  18. True
  19. Godan
  20. False
  21. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. Tulsidas
  23. animal stories
  24. False
  25. English
  26. the Mahabharata
  27. False
  28. Gitanjali
  29. True
  30. Thiruvalluvar
  31. Ved Vyasa
  32. Hindi
  33. False
  34. Valmiki
  35. False
  36. False
  37. Idgah
  38. Meghaduta
  39. True
  40. True

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