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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 418 · 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: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Lewis Carroll
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Tulsidas
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  8. 8.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  17. 17.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) English
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  20. 20.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Mowgli
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Tulsidas (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Gitanjali (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  28. 28.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Gitanjali
  29. 29.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Godan (c) the Ramayana (d) Ramcharitmanas
  30. 30.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  34. 34.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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