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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 284 · 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 Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  3. 3.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Idgah (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  12. 12.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  13. 13.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Idgah (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  17. 17.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  18. 18.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Kalidasa (c) Valmiki (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  24. 24.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Alice in Wonderland
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Bengali
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  37. 37.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma

Answer key

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

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