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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 302 · 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: Vishnu Sharma wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  6. 6.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  7. 7.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  8. 8.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  10. 10.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Karna
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  12. 12.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  13. 13.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  17. 17.True or false: Premchand wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  21. 21.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  23. 23.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  25. 25.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  27. 27.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Tamil
  29. 29.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer key

  1. False
  2. the Mahabharata
  3. 5
  4. False
  5. 18
  6. Ramcharitmanas
  7. animal stories
  8. True
  9. Kalidasa
  10. Rama
  11. Rabindranath Tagore
  12. 18
  13. False
  14. Tamil
  15. Sanskrit
  16. Bengali
  17. False
  18. Alice in Wonderland
  19. False
  20. Valmiki
  21. False
  22. Tulsidas
  23. the Ramayana
  24. Hindi
  25. Mowgli
  26. Sanskrit
  27. False
  28. English
  29. False
  30. True
  31. True
  32. True
  33. False
  34. False
  35. True
  36. False
  37. False
  38. False
  39. Awadhi
  40. Premchand

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