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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 453 · 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: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Meghaduta
  3. 3.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  4. 4.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Shere Khan (c) Bagheera (d) Baloo
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) English
  6. 6.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  7. 7.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  8. 8.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  10. 10.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  11. 11.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) animal stories (c) recipes (d) maps
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Kalidasa (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  16. 16.True or false: Premchand wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Thiruvalluvar
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
  20. 20.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Hanuman (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Wings of Fire. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  25. 25.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Gitanjali (c) Idgah (d) the Mahabharata
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Premchand (d) Ved Vyasa
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  28. 28.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Godan (c) Meghaduta (d) the Ramayana
  30. 30.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  31. 31.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  34. 34.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Thiruvalluvar
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Lewis Carroll
  38. 38.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah

Answer key

  1. True
  2. the Mahabharata
  3. Sanskrit
  4. Mowgli
  5. Awadhi
  6. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  7. Alice in Wonderland
  8. True
  9. Rabindranath Tagore
  10. Wings of Fire
  11. False
  12. animal stories
  13. False
  14. 5
  15. Valmiki
  16. True
  17. Thiruvalluvar
  18. Sanskrit
  19. Bengali
  20. Krishna
  21. Lewis Carroll
  22. True
  23. False
  24. English
  25. Tirukkural
  26. Ved Vyasa
  27. Tamil
  28. True
  29. Godan
  30. 18
  31. 18
  32. Sanskrit
  33. Hindi
  34. False
  35. English
  36. Vishnu Sharma
  37. Kalidasa
  38. False
  39. False
  40. Idgah

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