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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 397 · 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 Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  7. 7.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) the Ramayana (d) the Panchatantra
  9. 9.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  10. 10.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) war songs (d) maps
  13. 13.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  15. 15.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  17. 17.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  18. 18.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Idgah
  19. 19.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  21. 21.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  22. 22.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Idgah (d) Gitanjali
  23. 23.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  29. 29.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  33. 33.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  39. 39.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Rama
  3. 18
  4. 18
  5. 5
  6. Bengali
  7. True
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. Wings of Fire
  10. True
  11. True
  12. animal stories
  13. True
  14. Krishna
  15. False
  16. Kalidasa
  17. the Ramayana
  18. Idgah
  19. False
  20. Meghaduta
  21. the Mahabharata
  22. Gitanjali
  23. True
  24. False
  25. False
  26. False
  27. Rabindranath Tagore
  28. Valmiki
  29. False
  30. False
  31. False
  32. English
  33. False
  34. False
  35. False
  36. True
  37. True
  38. Alice in Wonderland
  39. False
  40. True

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