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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 446 · 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: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  3. 3.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Baloo (d) Bagheera
  4. 4.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) the Mahabharata
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Valmiki (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  13. 13.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) maps (d) animal stories
  14. 14.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) the Ramayana (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Lewis Carroll
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  17. 17.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  20. 20.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  22. 22.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Thiruvalluvar
  24. 24.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  26. 26.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Lewis Carroll
  31. 31.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Thiruvalluvar
  35. 35.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Bhima (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  36. 36.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Tamil
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Ved Vyasa
  40. 40.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. True
  2. English
  3. Mowgli
  4. True
  5. the Mahabharata
  6. Premchand
  7. Sanskrit
  8. False
  9. True
  10. True
  11. 18
  12. 5
  13. animal stories
  14. the Ramayana
  15. Rudyard Kipling
  16. Bengali
  17. False
  18. Sanskrit
  19. Meghaduta
  20. True
  21. Premchand
  22. 18
  23. Rabindranath Tagore
  24. False
  25. Gitanjali
  26. False
  27. True
  28. False
  29. False
  30. Tulsidas
  31. False
  32. Sanskrit
  33. Ved Vyasa
  34. Lewis Carroll
  35. Rama
  36. False
  37. True
  38. English
  39. Kalidasa
  40. False

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