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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 306 · 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: Premchand wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Idgah (d) Meghaduta
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  5. 5.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  13. 13.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  14. 14.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Tulsidas
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  18. 18.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  19. 19.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) English
  28. 28.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  32. 32.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Valmiki
  34. 34.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  37. 37.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  39. 39.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  40. 40.True or false: Valmiki wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. False
  2. False
  3. Meghaduta
  4. Tamil
  5. True
  6. True
  7. 18
  8. Premchand
  9. English
  10. Sanskrit
  11. the Panchatantra
  12. Awadhi
  13. Krishna
  14. True
  15. Ved Vyasa
  16. Bengali
  17. Hindi
  18. 5
  19. False
  20. the Mahabharata
  21. Thiruvalluvar
  22. the Mahabharata
  23. Kalidasa
  24. English
  25. Kalidasa
  26. Vishnu Sharma
  27. Sanskrit
  28. True
  29. False
  30. Ramcharitmanas
  31. Valmiki
  32. False
  33. Tulsidas
  34. False
  35. False
  36. Tirukkural
  37. False
  38. The Jungle Book
  39. Alice in Wonderland
  40. False

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