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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 449 · 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 Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  3. 3.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  6. 6.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Panchatantra
  7. 7.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  8. 8.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) English
  10. 10.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Idgah (b) Godan (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Ramcharitmanas
  13. 13.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Mahabharata (c) Meghaduta (d) Ramcharitmanas
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Hanuman
  17. 17.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) Gitanjali
  18. 18.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  19. 19.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Godan (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Wings of Fire
  20. 20.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  22. 22.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) Godan
  23. 23.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Tirukkural
  25. 25.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  26. 26.True or false: Valmiki wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  29. 29.True or false: Premchand wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Tulsidas
  33. 33.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  36. 36.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  39. 39.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah

Answer key

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

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