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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 437 · 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: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  4. 4.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) recipes
  10. 10.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  14. 14.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  16. 16.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Ramayana (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  22. 22.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Tulsidas wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  28. 28.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  32. 32.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Mahabharata (c) Idgah (d) The Jungle Book
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Tirukkural (c) The Jungle Book (d) Idgah
  35. 35.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  37. 37.True or false: Premchand wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  40. 40.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Ved Vyasa
  3. English
  4. False
  5. True
  6. False
  7. True
  8. False
  9. animal stories
  10. False
  11. False
  12. Valmiki
  13. Thiruvalluvar
  14. True
  15. Premchand
  16. False
  17. False
  18. Sanskrit
  19. 5
  20. False
  21. Wings of Fire
  22. False
  23. True
  24. True
  25. False
  26. False
  27. Sanskrit
  28. False
  29. Krishna
  30. English
  31. Sanskrit
  32. False
  33. Ramcharitmanas
  34. Meghaduta
  35. True
  36. Hindi
  37. False
  38. False
  39. Awadhi
  40. False

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