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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 336 · 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.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) the Ramayana
  2. 2.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Bhima
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Tulsidas (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. 10.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Kalidasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Hindi
  18. 18.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) English
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  24. 24.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) Ramcharitmanas
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  27. 27.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  28. 28.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Meghaduta (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  29. 29.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  31. 31.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Wings of Fire (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  33. 33.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  36. 36.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  39. 39.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  40. 40.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Valmiki (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Kalidasa

Answer key

  1. the Panchatantra
  2. False
  3. False
  4. True
  5. False
  6. False
  7. Rama
  8. Hindi
  9. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. False
  11. 5
  12. False
  13. False
  14. True
  15. False
  16. animal stories
  17. Sanskrit
  18. False
  19. Sanskrit
  20. Premchand
  21. Tamil
  22. True
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. the Mahabharata
  25. English
  26. Vishnu Sharma
  27. Gitanjali
  28. Ramcharitmanas
  29. True
  30. Alice in Wonderland
  31. True
  32. Meghaduta
  33. False
  34. False
  35. Awadhi
  36. False
  37. False
  38. Kalidasa
  39. 18
  40. Kalidasa

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