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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 286 · 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: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  5. 5.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  6. 6.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  7. 7.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  8. 8.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  12. 12.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  14. 14.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Meghaduta
  19. 19.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  20. 20.True or false: Valmiki wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  29. 29.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  31. 31.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  35. 35.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. True
  2. 5
  3. 18
  4. Krishna
  5. The Jungle Book
  6. Idgah
  7. Ramcharitmanas
  8. False
  9. False
  10. False
  11. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  12. False
  13. Premchand
  14. True
  15. False
  16. Thiruvalluvar
  17. Sanskrit
  18. the Panchatantra
  19. 18
  20. False
  21. True
  22. False
  23. True
  24. False
  25. Sanskrit
  26. False
  27. the Ramayana
  28. Rabindranath Tagore
  29. True
  30. Meghaduta
  31. True
  32. False
  33. the Mahabharata
  34. Sanskrit
  35. False
  36. False
  37. False
  38. True
  39. False
  40. True

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