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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 364 · 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 Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  2. 2.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) war songs (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  3. 3.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  5. 5.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  6. 6.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Premchand
  9. 9.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  10. 10.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  16. 16.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  18. 18.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  19. 19.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  25. 25.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.True or false: Premchand wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Wings of Fire
  30. 30.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  34. 34.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidasa
  36. 36.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Bengali
  38. 38.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Tulsidas
  2. animal stories
  3. True
  4. Ved Vyasa
  5. Ramcharitmanas
  6. False
  7. Lewis Carroll
  8. Kalidasa
  9. Krishna
  10. False
  11. 18
  12. 5
  13. True
  14. True
  15. English
  16. Alice in Wonderland
  17. Valmiki
  18. 18
  19. True
  20. False
  21. the Mahabharata
  22. Sanskrit
  23. Sanskrit
  24. Hindi
  25. True
  26. False
  27. Sanskrit
  28. False
  29. Wings of Fire
  30. False
  31. Mowgli
  32. Rudyard Kipling
  33. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  34. False
  35. Kalidasa
  36. False
  37. Tamil
  38. False
  39. False
  40. False

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