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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 267 · 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: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  3. 3.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  5. 5.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) war songs
  6. 6.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Bagheera
  7. 7.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  9. 9.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  15. 15.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) the Panchatantra
  16. 16.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  18. 18.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  20. 20.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  23. 23.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  28. 28.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Ravana
  29. 29.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  32. 32.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  34. 34.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) The Jungle Book (d) Ramcharitmanas
  38. 38.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  40. 40.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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