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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 448 · 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 Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  4. 4.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  6. 6.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Premchand (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Thiruvalluvar
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  10. 10.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  12. 12.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  13. 13.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Karna
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Lewis Carroll (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  16. 16.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) maps (b) recipes (c) war songs (d) animal stories
  17. 17.True or false: Valmiki wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Tulsidas (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  23. 23.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Lewis Carroll
  25. 25.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  28. 28.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Panchatantra
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  34. 34.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  36. 36.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Thiruvalluvar
  3. Awadhi
  4. False
  5. Godan
  6. Meghaduta
  7. Vishnu Sharma
  8. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  9. Tamil
  10. 18
  11. Krishna
  12. Mowgli
  13. Rama
  14. 5
  15. Ved Vyasa
  16. animal stories
  17. False
  18. the Mahabharata
  19. Tirukkural
  20. English
  21. Tulsidas
  22. Idgah
  23. True
  24. Lewis Carroll
  25. The Jungle Book
  26. False
  27. 18
  28. Wings of Fire
  29. True
  30. False
  31. False
  32. the Ramayana
  33. Sanskrit
  34. the Mahabharata
  35. Kalidasa
  36. False
  37. False
  38. True
  39. False
  40. False

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