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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 432 · 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.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  2. 2.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Mahabharata
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  11. 11.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  14. 14.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  15. 15.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  16. 16.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Premchand
  18. 18.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  20. 20.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Tamil (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  23. 23.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  29. 29.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Shere Khan
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  33. 33.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Rama
  36. 36.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Godan
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  38. 38.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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