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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 290 · 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: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  7. 7.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Rama
  10. 10.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: Premchand wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Idgah
  18. 18.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) English
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  21. 21.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  25. 25.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  27. 27.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  30. 30.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  32. 32.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Kalidasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Tulsidas
  37. 37.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?

Answer key

  1. True
  2. False
  3. 18
  4. Rabindranath Tagore
  5. Lewis Carroll
  6. Ved Vyasa
  7. True
  8. Tulsidas
  9. Krishna
  10. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  11. Kalidasa
  12. animal stories
  13. Awadhi
  14. Ramcharitmanas
  15. False
  16. False
  17. the Ramayana
  18. False
  19. English
  20. English
  21. The Jungle Book
  22. Valmiki
  23. Sanskrit
  24. Sanskrit
  25. False
  26. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  27. False
  28. False
  29. Tamil
  30. Rama
  31. Sanskrit
  32. False
  33. False
  34. Tirukkural
  35. True
  36. Kalidasa
  37. 18
  38. True
  39. False
  40. 5

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