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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 373 · 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: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Godan (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) the Mahabharata
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Kalidasa
  5. 5.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Godan (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  8. 8.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Shere Khan (c) Mowgli (d) Bagheera
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  10. 10.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) maps (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  11. 11.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Godan (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  12. 12.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  15. 15.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  17. 17.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  18. 18.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  20. 20.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  22. 22.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Idgah (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  23. 23.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.True or false: Valmiki wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Premchand (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  29. 29.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Arjuna (d) Karna
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  32. 32.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  35. 35.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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