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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 407 · 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 Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  3. 3.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Godan
  4. 4.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  5. 5.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  8. 8.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  9. 9.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  11. 11.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Ramayana
  12. 12.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: Premchand wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  15. 15.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  17. 17.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Tulsidas (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Ved Vyasa
  21. 21.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Arjuna (c) Rama (d) Bhima
  22. 22.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  25. 25.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  26. 26.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Mahabharata
  28. 28.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  32. 32.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  34. 34.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Mahabharata
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Lewis Carroll
  37. 37.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland

Answer key

  1. False
  2. 5
  3. Godan
  4. the Panchatantra
  5. Gitanjali
  6. Bengali
  7. Sanskrit
  8. 18
  9. True
  10. Thiruvalluvar
  11. the Ramayana
  12. False
  13. False
  14. English
  15. True
  16. Tirukkural
  17. Krishna
  18. Ved Vyasa
  19. False
  20. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  21. Rama
  22. Mowgli
  23. Hindi
  24. Sanskrit
  25. animal stories
  26. False
  27. Alice in Wonderland
  28. True
  29. False
  30. True
  31. Sanskrit
  32. 18
  33. Awadhi
  34. the Mahabharata
  35. English
  36. Valmiki
  37. True
  38. True
  39. True
  40. Ramcharitmanas

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