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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 311 · 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: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Wings of Fire
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Ved Vyasa
  8. 8.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  9. 9.True or false: Valmiki wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Meghaduta
  12. 12.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Meghaduta
  14. 14.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  17. 17.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  20. 20.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Premchand (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  23. 23.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  24. 24.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) war songs
  25. 25.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  27. 27.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  29. 29.True or false: Valmiki wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  33. 33.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Gitanjali
  34. 34.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  37. 37.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  40. 40.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. True
  2. False
  3. Godan
  4. Ved Vyasa
  5. 18
  6. Wings of Fire
  7. Tulsidas
  8. the Panchatantra
  9. False
  10. Valmiki
  11. Tirukkural
  12. False
  13. Alice in Wonderland
  14. False
  15. True
  16. Lewis Carroll
  17. True
  18. True
  19. the Mahabharata
  20. False
  21. Ramcharitmanas
  22. Premchand
  23. Rama
  24. animal stories
  25. the Ramayana
  26. Hindi
  27. 5
  28. Sanskrit
  29. False
  30. the Mahabharata
  31. False
  32. 18
  33. Gitanjali
  34. False
  35. Vishnu Sharma
  36. English
  37. True
  38. False
  39. Sanskrit
  40. True

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