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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 352 · 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.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Lewis Carroll
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Wings of Fire
  5. 5.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: Godan was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  12. 12.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  19. 19.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Valmiki wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Rama
  22. 22.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  23. 23.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) Alice in Wonderland
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  28. 28.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Godan (d) The Jungle Book
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  31. 31.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Gitanjali
  32. 32.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Wings of Fire (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Tirukkural
  33. 33.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Ramayana (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  34. 34.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Mowgli (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  35. 35.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  36. 36.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire

Answer key

  1. Premchand
  2. Awadhi
  3. 5
  4. Wings of Fire
  5. False
  6. False
  7. True
  8. False
  9. Krishna
  10. 18
  11. the Mahabharata
  12. False
  13. True
  14. False
  15. True
  16. True
  17. English
  18. Premchand
  19. False
  20. False
  21. Rama
  22. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  23. True
  24. False
  25. Alice in Wonderland
  26. Kalidasa
  27. Rudyard Kipling
  28. the Panchatantra
  29. False
  30. Sanskrit
  31. Gitanjali
  32. Tirukkural
  33. the Mahabharata
  34. Mowgli
  35. animal stories
  36. False
  37. False
  38. True
  39. False
  40. Ramcharitmanas

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