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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 281 · 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 Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  5. 5.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  9. 9.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  11. 11.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Gitanjali
  12. 12.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa
  15. 15.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  18. 18.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  20. 20.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) English
  22. 22.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Kalidasa
  24. 24.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  27. 27.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  31. 31.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  33. 33.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  36. 36.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  39. 39.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Idgah
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  3. Rama
  4. English
  5. the Mahabharata
  6. False
  7. True
  8. Premchand
  9. Ramcharitmanas
  10. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  11. Alice in Wonderland
  12. False
  13. Bengali
  14. Kalidasa
  15. False
  16. 5
  17. Lewis Carroll
  18. True
  19. Krishna
  20. Gitanjali
  21. Awadhi
  22. animal stories
  23. Rudyard Kipling
  24. Tirukkural
  25. False
  26. Wings of Fire
  27. True
  28. Tamil
  29. 18
  30. Rabindranath Tagore
  31. 18
  32. English
  33. False
  34. Ved Vyasa
  35. Sanskrit
  36. the Panchatantra
  37. True
  38. Sanskrit
  39. Idgah
  40. Valmiki

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