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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 213 · 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: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  3. 3.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  4. 4.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  5. 5.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  10. 10.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  12. 12.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  19. 19.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  20. 20.True or false: Premchand wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  23. 23.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Baloo
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  25. 25.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  26. 26.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  28. 28.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) The Jungle Book (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Tamil
  3. Gitanjali
  4. Alice in Wonderland
  5. True
  6. True
  7. False
  8. 18
  9. Kalidasa
  10. animal stories
  11. Rama
  12. Krishna
  13. 18
  14. True
  15. True
  16. False
  17. Sanskrit
  18. The Jungle Book
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. False
  21. Ramcharitmanas
  22. Sanskrit
  23. Mowgli
  24. Lewis Carroll
  25. 5
  26. False
  27. the Ramayana
  28. True
  29. Tirukkural
  30. True
  31. Idgah
  32. Tulsidas
  33. False
  34. True
  35. False
  36. False
  37. False
  38. False
  39. True
  40. False

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